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Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:50 AM Jun 2025

Trump BAFFLED over foreign leaders encouraging him to eat their shorts, rather than begging to lick his boots

'Humiliated' Trump has discovered 'world leaders are harder to bully': analyst

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-humiliated-world-leaders/

Donald Trump's wavering on tariffs and admission that he has not been able to bring the war in Ukraine to a halt is a sign he's finding out that world leaders are increasingly not taking him seriously.

According to an analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson, bullying may work on Republican party lawmakers who fear he'll ruin their careers, but it is quite another thing to make demands of foreign diplomats in countries where Trump is considered either an irritant or a joke.

As Collinson wrote, Trump's inability to get anything done internationally is frustrating him and there is no relief in sight for the putative leader of the free world.

In large part Trump's growing problems stem with him "being ignored and humiliated" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the Moscow media piling on and "portraying Trump as the tough talker who always blinks and never imposes consequences."

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Trump BAFFLED over foreign leaders encouraging him to eat their shorts, rather than begging to lick his boots (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2025 OP
They have figured the TACO don out. republianmushroom Jun 2025 #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #2
The Taco will have no problem sending others to war Ponietz Jun 2025 #15
Putin ALWAYS figured that out. Bluetus Jun 2025 #38
Foreign leaders know that trump is stupid LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #3
Anyone that didn't know he was stupid mdbl Jun 2025 #14
"It's not fair! WHY are they ignoring me???" tanyev Jun 2025 #4
Funny thing is, people & countries find other ways to do business rather than do business with lying bullies Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #5
I'm afraid this is a dangerous situation William Seger Jun 2025 #6
Stay in your shelter. We've got this. Shoeless Louis Jun 2025 #9
Welcome to DU William Seger Jun 2025 #17
We haven't got shit and I don't like your tone Ponietz Jun 2025 #19
You're correct and post 9. is a cheap shot Ponietz Jun 2025 #18
I have this theory about breakdowns and such Miles Archer Jun 2025 #20
Please, let's not say TACO runs its course. TACO's Forever! thought crime Jun 2025 #35
Is this sarcasm? I hope? thought crime Jun 2025 #34
The whole world outside of the US knows we have an incompetent, cowardly, buffoon as our leader. Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #7
...and he has an entire ghost-written book on "Negotiating." Miles Archer Jun 2025 #21
His idea of negotiating is to break a sworn contract with Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #30
At the marrow of every incompetent person is an inner-self that knows it's incompetent and allegorical oracle Jun 2025 #28
All true. Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #29
Quote feom an article in The Atlantic Picaro Jun 2025 #8
Same here...saw the quote but didn't read the article Miles Archer Jun 2025 #22
You'll very likely be running for cover before too long, donald. calimary Jun 2025 #24
There are many of us in THIS country who share this opinion of IT. LoisB Jun 2025 #10
They know all about TACO! IronLionZion Jun 2025 #11
What an ordeal it must be for their Foreign Services to deal with the deluded jerks who come around, trying to boss them NBachers Jun 2025 #12
Clearly Putin has more than one tape nowforever Jun 2025 #13
I think it's pretty clear that tapes wouldn't move the needle a single bit. BlueTsunami2018 Jun 2025 #23
i'm sure there is komppromat rampartd Jun 2025 #26
You got a rec just for your post title. NNadir Jun 2025 #16
Thank you...I take great pride in capturing the essence with a soupon of sarcasm Miles Archer Jun 2025 #27
Putin laughing spreads his wings. Iggo Jun 2025 #25
Dang even Moscow is calling him TACO LearnedHand Jun 2025 #31
This might be good BlueSpot Jun 2025 #32
Oh is it Rough having Putin as your Crooked Puppet Cha Jun 2025 #33
AKA the world Dorian Gray Jun 2025 #36
Yep moose65 Jun 2025 #37
"People in time, may forget what you said, but never forget the way you made them feel." sounds right. nt Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #39
Umbrellas baffle TACO Supreme. n/t Hugin Jun 2025 #40
Watching the devastation of Trump helped elections in Australia and Canada but I am Bev54 Jun 2025 #41
He preyed on smaller businesses that leftyladyfrommo Jun 2025 #42
The only problem with this is.. FirstLight Jun 2025 #43
Trump is BAFFLED why his chair smells after he gets up from it..... AZ8theist Jun 2025 #44

Ponietz

(4,227 posts)
15. The Taco will have no problem sending others to war
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:46 PM
Jun 2025

He wants a military parade because he fantasizes about being a military leader.

He no longer fears Russian kompromat. Epstein and pee hookers are old news.
Vlad is embarrassing him.
China is embarrassing him.
That MF traitor lives for revenge.

The U.S. will be at war before 2028.

Bluetus

(2,319 posts)
38. Putin ALWAYS figured that out.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jun 2025

Putin knew he had a guy who, when Putin ordered him to blink, says "how high"?

When Putin orders Trump to chicken out, Trump says "how many egg, sir"?

Putin backed Trump because he knew Trump was easy to manipulate.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
5. Funny thing is, people & countries find other ways to do business rather than do business with lying bullies
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jun 2025

It's why tRump consistently is reduced to hiring third-rate lawyers.

William Seger

(12,217 posts)
6. I'm afraid this is a dangerous situation
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jun 2025

I've posted a few times lately about RUMP suffering from power psychosis, a loss of contact with reality caused by too much unchecked power, characterized by grandiose delusions, hallucinations, distorted thinking, paranoia, and drastic mood swings. RUMP was already a vindictive sociopath given to narcissistic rage -- I'm seriously afraid that this mental illness makes it likely he will do something highly irrational as retribution to his perceived enemies.

Shoeless Louis

(101 posts)
9. Stay in your shelter. We've got this.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:10 PM
Jun 2025

But seriously, you’re afraid “he might do something irrational”!? Do you mean ‘again’? What’s your point? We should… not piss him off? Try and reason with him? Buy his crypto? Call his wife? Adopt a Positive Mental Attitude? Buy his forgiveness? Pray to Jesus?

Ponietz

(4,227 posts)
18. You're correct and post 9. is a cheap shot
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 03:05 PM
Jun 2025
He wants a military parade because he wants to use the military.
Snap


Whether in Greenland, Panama, Canada, or elsewhere. Kegsbreath talked about China yesterday.

I’m most concerned about his turning on Putin, sure that Lump resents being manipulated with kompromat. They’re mob bosses.



Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
20. I have this theory about breakdowns and such
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jun 2025

In the mid 90s or so, I was driving in the fast lane on Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. Somewhat out of nowhere, I became a little disoriented, I was having trouble breathing, light-headed...

...I pulled the car to the shoulder of the road. There wasn't really any option as the next off-ramp was a couple of miles down the road and I was convinced that I was going to pass out. It wasn't the safest thing to do, but God Bless California's infrastructure. The shoulder was wide enough that I wouldn't want to set up a picnic there, but I could take a time out.

I'll cut to the chase. That was the day my doctor welcomed me to the world of Panic / Anxiety Attacks.

Symptoms are pretty close to a heart attack. But the INTERESTING THING is that (for me, anyway) they aren't triggered by an immediately identifiable event. An apt metaphor is a glass that is filled one drop of water at a time. Eventually, there will be one drop too many that causes the glass to spill. That's how anxiety attacks happen...residual stress and anxiety build up until you physically shut down.

Trump's pathology is such that let's say "TACO" runs its course in another month. A month after that, he could be sitting there. WITHOUT AN IMMEDIATE TRIGGER IN THE MOMENT, he could just find himself angered because he never punished America (and the world) for "TACO." And, he could do something dangerous.

Sometimes Trump telegraphs his punches. Sometimes, being a toddler with no "off" switch, he just does something dangerous and stupid. And we never know which Trump we're going to get on any day of the week.

thought crime

(1,234 posts)
35. Please, let's not say TACO runs its course. TACO's Forever!
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 04:45 AM
Jun 2025

Pretty sure TACO will stick around because TACO.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,140 posts)
7. The whole world outside of the US knows we have an incompetent, cowardly, buffoon as our leader.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:04 PM
Jun 2025

Except for the Republicans.

"Moscow media piling on and "portraying Trump as the tough talker who always blinks and never imposes consequences."

No, no, no, you don't understand. That's called "negotiating".

Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
21. ...and he has an entire ghost-written book on "Negotiating."
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 03:43 PM
Jun 2025

Last edited Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:27 PM - Edit history (1)

One would assume a book called "Art of the Deal" would cover all the basics, SUCH AS NEGOTIATING, since...without it...there IS no "deal." But Trump...like a lot of authors, especially in the business / "success" field, repeat and recycle their most successful material with new titles and new, provocative covers.

And what we're seeing is basically every country he's tried to bully for any reason saying "Kiss OFF," which does not speak to his HAVING "negotiating skills," let alone being an "expert" at them.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,140 posts)
30. His idea of negotiating is to break a sworn contract with
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jun 2025

small businesses that can't afford to fight long drawn out court proceedings that eventually accept his pennies on the dollar settlement.
My curiosity is, who in the hell still does any business with anything tied to his name. Banks, contractors, lawyers, anybody. He had a hard time getting somebody to issue a bond on his behalf in the settlement with NYC. HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Just ask Melania.

allegorical oracle

(6,197 posts)
28. At the marrow of every incompetent person is an inner-self that knows it's incompetent and
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 05:52 PM
Jun 2025

has to overcompensate. The more inept, the greater the incompetency, the more strident the overcompensation becomes. He's much worse now than he was in 2016.

Picaro

(2,335 posts)
8. Quote feom an article in The Atlantic
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jun 2025

“I run the country and I run the world”.

I’ll never read the article. But the moment I heard that I knew he is doomed.

Then he went to the Middle East and it was such a completely embarrassing clown show that there is no doubt that he runs nothing.

But he has brought the Age of America to an end amd our national pain is only beginning.

He’s ignorant and profoundly stupid. This will only get worse.

Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
22. Same here...saw the quote but didn't read the article
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 03:46 PM
Jun 2025

But yeah, "pride goeth before the fall." Hubris...it's a hell of a drug, especially when the person pounding their chest can't back it up with substance. I guess the Roberts "immunity" thing did this to him...that fake "Time cover" of himself as 'king"...a guy who has been mentally imbalanced and delusional for his entire life has all of his checks and balances removed and starts feeling like he's God, rather than a guy with six bankruptcies and three marriages, with one of the wives buried on his golf course for a tax break.

NBachers

(19,187 posts)
12. What an ordeal it must be for their Foreign Services to deal with the deluded jerks who come around, trying to boss them
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:28 PM
Jun 2025
 

nowforever

(586 posts)
13. Clearly Putin has more than one tape
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:34 PM
Jun 2025

Trump has visited since 1987 and KGB knows what you like and they are great film makers.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,866 posts)
23. I think it's pretty clear that tapes wouldn't move the needle a single bit.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 04:08 PM
Jun 2025

No matter what was on them. Everything would stay the exact same as it is now.

Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
27. Thank you...I take great pride in capturing the essence with a soupon of sarcasm
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 05:45 PM
Jun 2025


It's been a thing of mine since I've been on DU. I make sure that what isn't said explicitly in the article gets explicitly said by me.

BlueSpot

(1,247 posts)
32. This might be good
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:34 PM
Jun 2025

It's like when your neighbors know you're dealing with a senile uncle. They get it. They won't go along with him or his crazy shit and they know the madness will eventually end.

It could shorten the time it takes to recover from this administration.

Cha

(316,909 posts)
33. Oh is it Rough having Putin as your Crooked Puppet
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:46 PM
Jun 2025

Master, you fucking Dangerous "joke" idiot?

".. begging to lick his boots.." like the techie Billionaires, Bezos et all are.. and the US Gaslit media, and the maga pols?

moose65

(3,440 posts)
37. Yep
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 08:28 AM
Jun 2025

Other countries (and their leaders) don't have to put up with Trump's bullshit. They can openly call him a stupid moron without fear of political reprisal.

My favorite video from Trump's first term was when he was addressing the UN and they laughed at him. In that instant of time, he froze, because he is not used to that kind of reaction. It was marvelous!

Evolve Dammit

(21,506 posts)
39. "People in time, may forget what you said, but never forget the way you made them feel." sounds right. nt
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 09:26 AM
Jun 2025

Bev54

(13,208 posts)
41. Watching the devastation of Trump helped elections in Australia and Canada but I am
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 09:56 AM
Jun 2025

absolutely astounded that Poland went for the Trump nationalist. I just wonder how much Russian and Musk interference there. It is really worrying with them being so helpful to Ukraine and so close proximity and history with Russia,

leftyladyfrommo

(19,956 posts)
42. He preyed on smaller businesses that
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:45 AM
Jun 2025

needed the work. Then he didn't pay what he owed and forced them into bankruptcy because they were too small to beat him in court.

Now he's up against governments that can and will fight back. Whole different ballgame.

That's just such an asshole thing to do.

FirstLight

(15,771 posts)
43. The only problem with this is..
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 11:23 AM
Jun 2025

I fear he will have a real meltdown/tantrum and decide to launch some kind of attack. There's no guardrails in place and he's batshit crazy enough to decide to use a nuke on someone if they urt his ego enough

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