I just wanted the world to know this. The electoral College, Putin, Fake News etc. actually put Trump in office against the will of the people. The majority of people including myself voted against Trump.
So, realistically you can ONLY blame those who actually voted for him for the mess he has already created all over the Earth (even before he is inaugurated president).
Another thought of mine which is pretty horrific: I grew up in a religion that believed in the "Third EPISODE of General Washington's Vision at Valley Forge". IN this vision the whole world Attacked the U.S. and killed of 2/3s or more of our population before we finally won and drove them back.
I always wondered as a child how a kind and beneficial and generous nation like the U.S. would have the whole world attack us en masse?
However, today I just realized the vehicle of the whole world hating us, "Trump".
I finally could see why the whole world would attack the U.S. and it would be because of some really crazy insane thing he does.
It's sort of like Nero playing the harp while Rome burns. But in this case it would be Trump Tweeting while the whole world catches fire with millions dying all over.
So, I can now envision all nations on earth Attacking the U.S. because of a leader like Trump which I could never envision before.
Think about what I wrote above as you read this article if you wish:
4 hours ago ... President-elect Donald J. Trump in the Trump Tower lobby on Monday. His remarks in a string of interviews have escalated tensions with China ...
3 hours ago ...As Trump Era Arrives, a Sense of Uncertainty Grips the World ... But there's also a sense that his words should not be taken too literally. SHARE.
As Trump Era Arrives, a Sense of Uncertainty Grips the World
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President-elect Donald J.
Trump in the Trump Tower lobby on Monday. His remarks in a string of
interviews have escalated tensions with China and infuriated allies.Credit
Hilary Swift for The New York Times
LONDON — The Germans are angry. The Chinese are downright furious. Leaders of NATO are nervous, while their counterparts at the European Union are alarmed.
Just
days before he is sworn into office, President-elect Donald J. Trump
has again focused his penchant for unpredictable disruption on the rest
of the world. His remarks in a string of discursive and sometimes
contradictory interviews have escalated tensions with China while also infuriating allies and institutions critical to America’s traditional leadership of the West.
No one knows where exactly he is headed — except that the one country he is not criticizing is Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin. For now. And that he is an enthusiastic cheerleader of Brexit and an unaffiliated Britain. For now.
Mr.
Trump’s unpredictability is perhaps his most predictable
characteristic. The world is accustomed to his provocative Twitter
messages, but is less clear about whether his remarks represent
meaningful new policy guidelines, personal judgments or passing whims.
In the interviews, Mr. Trump described the European Union as “basically a
vehicle for Germany” and predicted that the bloc would probably see other countries follow Britain’s example and vote to leave.
Mr. Trump also said Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, had made a “catastrophic mistake” in allowing refugees to pour into Europe.
The barrage of inflammatory comments
in joint interviews published Sunday and Monday in Britain and Germany
elicited alarm and outrage in Europe, even as Ms. Merkel dryly
characterized Mr. Trump’s positions as nothing new.
“They
have been known for a while — my positions are also known,” Ms. Merkel
said Monday in Berlin. “I think we Europeans have control of our
destiny.”
Her
clipped response came as officials and analysts struggled with how to
interpret Mr. Trump’s remarks, as well as how to react to them.
Some
argued that the president-elect’s words should be regarded as tactical,
intended merely to keep his options open. But nearly everyone agreed
that Mr. Trump had made trouble, especially in criticizing Ms. Merkel,
given her importance as a figure of stability in Europe and her campaign
for re-election later this year.
For
good measure, Mr. Trump had also infuriated China by using an interview
on Friday with The Wall Street Journal to again question China’s
longstanding One China policy. It holds that Taiwan is an inalienable
part of the mainland.
Photo
Chancellor Angela Merkel of
Germany in Berlin on Monday. Mr. Trump’s comments about her and how the
European Union is “basically a vehicle for Germany” have damaged Ms.
Merkel, who is running for re-election this year.Credit
Oliver Weiken/European Pressphoto Agency
On
Monday, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said that
anyone trying to use the status of Taiwan for negotiations would be
“smashing their feet by lifting a rock” and would face broad and strong
opposition from the Chinese government and people, as well as the
international community. She added that “not everything in the world can
be bargained or traded off.”
The
English-language China Daily accused Mr. Trump on Monday of “playing
with fire,” saying that if Taiwan became up for negotiation, as Mr.
Trump suggested to The Journal, “Beijing will have no choice but to take
off the gloves.”
Mr.
Trump’s interviews in Europe have placed him right in the middle of the
Continent’s most contentious issues. His critique of German dominance
over the European Union is hardly a novel thought; many Europeans share
the same complaints. But what is startling is how an incoming American
president would make such a statement about a key ally and, in doing so,
give succor to populist parties seeking to shatter the European
political establishment.
In
the interview published Monday in the German newspaper Bild and The
Times of London, Mr. Trump also equated his trust of Ms. Merkel with his
trust for Mr. Putin.
“I
start off trusting both,” he said during the joint interview, which was
conducted inside his office in Trump Tower in New York, “but let’s see
how long that lasts. It may not last long at all.”
Certainly,
Mr. Trump knows how to give a provocative interview. He repeated past
criticisms that NATO is “obsolete” for supposedly not confronting
terrorism, only to quickly add that “with that being said, NATO is very
important to me.”
Mr.
Trump’s comments “are a direct assault on the liberal order we’ve built
since 1945 and a repudiation of the idea that the United States should
lead the West,” said R. Nicholas Burns, a former senior State Department
official and ambassador to NATO, who also advised the presidential
campaign of Hillary Clinton.
“To
say that NATO is obsolete, openly support the disintegration of the
E.U. and then denigrate Merkel and put her on a par with Putin is a
fundamental break with 70 years of American policy and strategic thought
supported by Republicans from Eisenhower to now,” said Mr. Burns, who
has served presidents of both parties. “NATO is the great power
differential between the United States and Russia, as our Asian
alliances are the power differential between us and China.”
Mr.
Trump’s remarks almost certainly rankled Europe’s two most powerful
leaders, Ms. Merkel and Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain. Mr.
Trump’s enthusiasm for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, or
Brexit — if welcomed by British officials, in general terms — has put
considerably more pressure on Mrs. May. She is preparing to give a major speech on Tuesday
about her Brexit plans, even as Mr. Trump promised to give Britain a
quick and fair trade deal outside the European Union — a deal that
cannot take place for at least two years until Britain leaves the bloc.
Awkwardly
for her, one of the interviewers was Michael Gove, who strongly
supported Brexit and ran for the Conservative leadership against Mrs.
May, who immediately fired him from the cabinet. Mr. Trump’s first
meeting with a British politician was with another May adversary, Nigel
Farage, the former leader of the anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, or
UKIP.
Ms.
Merkel, who is known for her sang-froid and pragmatism, shrugged off
Mr. Trump’s latest criticism, saying that what matters is what he does
in office. “I am waiting for the president to be sworn into office. That
is the way it is done,” she said. “And then, of course, I will work
with him together.”
Photo
A newsstand in London. Mr.
Trump’s enthusiasm for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, or
Brexit, has put considerably more pressure on the British prime
minister, Theresa May.Credit
Facundo Arrizabalaga/European Pressphoto Agency
The
German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was not so sanguine.
Mr. Trump’s comments had “caused astonishment and commotion, and I’m
sure not just in Brussels,” where he spoke on Monday before a monthly
meeting of European Union foreign ministers.
Mr.
Steinmeier said that he had just seen the NATO secretary general, Jens
Stoltenberg, and that there was continuing concern inside the military
alliance.
“First,
it goes against the statements of the nominated defense secretary a few
days ago,” Mr. Steinmeier said. “We have to see what it will yield in
terms of U.S. foreign policy. The same goes for the statements on trade
policy. We count on the U.S. to stick to its international obligations,
including in the World Trade Organization.”
Others
cautioned against taking Mr. Trump’s words literally, at least for now.
“I take all of this with a pinch of salt,” said Robin Niblett, the
director of Chatham House, the London-based research institution. “I
think Trump is trying to keep his options open and not be cornered by
simply standing up for existing policy positions.”
Mr.
Trump’s transition team will try to begin to smooth over some of the
tensions on Tuesday in Washington, where the group planning his
inauguration will host a black-tie dinner for members of the foreign
diplomatic corps to mingle with prospective cabinet members, leaders of
Congress and Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
President
Obama’s departing ambassador to Germany, John B. Emerson, has used a
series of exit interviews and speeches in recent days to urge the
Germans to stay calm, not to overinterpret Twitter posts or view them as
finished foreign policy. Mr. Emerson underscored that, while more
clarity was needed, there were signs that Mr. Trump did value NATO and
the promise of United States protection for European allies.
“It’s
a very crucial issue, not just for European security, but for American
security,” Mr. Emerson said. He noted that Mr. Trump “authorized
President Obama when he came here on his trip shortly after the two of
them met to reassure European partners of the full commitment to NATO.
Now, we need to see what that means.”
Yet Europe is staring at a potentially transformative political year,
with elections coming in the Netherlands, France and Germany, and
possibly in Italy. Victories by populist parties could destabilize the
European Union, and many European officials worry that Mr. Trump’s
attacks are damaging.
Martin
Schäfer, a spokesman for Mr. Steinmeier and the German Foreign
Ministry, flatly rejected Mr. Trump’s comment in the interview that the
European Union “is basically a vehicle for Germany.”
“Perhaps
in times such as these, when order is crumbling, it is more important
than ever that we want to, and must, stand together,” Mr. Schäfer said,
underlining the post-World War II German stance that only through the country’s role in a larger European alliance are peace and prosperity guaranteed.
Foreign
Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of France said Mr. Trump’s comments were an
invitation to the bloc to stand united. “As is the case with Brexit,” he
said, “the best way of defending Europe, and that is the invitation Mr.
Trump has given to us, is to remain united as a bloc, not forgetting
that the strength of Europeans lies in their unity.”
The
British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, who supported Brexit,
emphasized Mr. Trump’s warm comments on the Anglo-American relationship.
“I think it’s very good news that the U.S.A. wants to do a good free
trade deal with us and wants to do it very fast,” he said. “Clearly it
will have to be a deal that’s very much in the interests of both sides,
but I have no doubt it will be.”
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