Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Hey, you spelled it correctly. Two orange slices for you!

 

Do you really want to compare a president whose worst crime was leading us into a war in which thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died to a president whose worst crime was lying under oath about his sex life?

 

Kind of a funny -- disgusting, but funny -- thought.

 

No one respects -- let alone fears -- our President.

This will change under President Trump.

 

Stop bringing context into the conversation.

 

Trump's trip to Mexico went a lot smoother than this:

A Chinese official confronted U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser on the tarmac on Saturday prompting the Secret Service to intervene, an unusual altercation as China implements strict controls ahead of a big summit.

The stakes are high for China to pull off a trouble-free G20 summit of the world's top economies, its highest profile event of the year, as it looks to cement its global standing and avoid acrimony over a long list of tensions with Washington.

Shortly after Obama's plane landed in the eastern city of Hangzhou, a Chinese official attempted to prevent his national security adviser Susan Rice from walking to the motorcade as she crossed a media rope line, speaking angrily to her before a Secret Service agent stepped between the two.

Rice responded but her comments were inaudible to reporters standing underneath the wing of Air Force One. It was unclear if the official, whose name was not immediately clear, knew that Rice was a senior official and not a reporter.

The same official shouted at a White House press aide who was instructing foreign reporters on where to stand as they recorded Obama disembarking from the plane.

"This is our country. This is our airport," the official said in English, pointing and speaking angrily with the aide.

Row on tarmac an awkward G20 start for U.S., China

 

How will it change under Trump? What will we be doing to make the rest of the world fear our president? Do tell.

 

And then another physical confrontation when the President's press pool is blocked from entering event.

 

Hell, at least it wasn't OUR president hassling the media. Are you that tone deaf?

 

Please. He's a cartoon character with the gravitas of a poodle. There is no way you respected him until about 14 months ago. None. Foreign leaders with an ounce of gray matter will fucking own him at summits.

 

Trump plays a cartoon character version of himself on occasion.

But, in other settings, like with the Mexican President the other day, he's composed and presidential. Trump took over the post meeting press conference, calling on reporters, and commanding the room like he was the host, and not a guest. He left the Mexican President looking small in Trump's presence.

 

Specifically when was the time period in which bad things didn't happen because other countries feared our President?