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@FD1000, you will be well served if you listen to right-wing nut Tucker Carlson interview right wing nut and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes the other day. This is the same Nick Fuentes that right wing nut Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for fine dining.
What? Right wing MAGA leaders who hate Jews? Whodda thunk? Almost as implausible as a Jew voting them into power. And defending their every fascist move.
I just read an article about a MAGA voter on SNAP benefits who asked her mother-in-law for food money. "Until their benefits come in". Neither she, nor her husband have jobs. They have two children. They exist on government benefits.
Re: Carlson/Fuentes: just let me point out the naive and uncritical way they ignore the fact that the modern Israeli State is not the same thing as the biblical nation from thousands of years ago.
The red carpet is rolling out for Trump across the world — and there’s a reason. It’s about respect and a desire to do business with America again.
You are misinterpreting events once again! President Trump is emotionally insecure and he reacts favorably to pomp and circumstance and fawning praise. Foreign leaders are taking advantage of Trump's weakness.
Vivian Salama: And there were other meetings that the president held, obviously stopped in Malaysia, Seung Min, he stopped in Japan, he stopped in South Korea. And, I mean, the pomp and fanfare was just in full force. The flattery efforts were in full force. What do you think world leaders are learning about how to deal with President Trump?
Seung Min Kim, White House Reporter, The Associated Press: Flattery is the fastest way to his heart is what they have learned and really utilizing in Trump's second term. My colleagues and I wrote about this, about how the president really did seem to be enjoying himself on this trip. You know, during the first term, these foreign trips weren't necessarily his favorite -- the favorite parts of his term in the White House. But now, especially that world leaders have learned to pull out all the stops for President Trump, he's really having a good time. You saw him on the tarmac in Malaysia dancing as he was welcomed to the country. In South Korea, he was granted with honors and a gold crown. Obviously, gold is very deliberately chosen there.
But this has, this is not unique to this particular trip. You saw how at NATO earlier this year that the secretary general basically said he was the daddy to NATO. They know that, you know, flattering him, kind of bolstering him is the way to work with him. And that's certainly something that world leaders have learned and is a change from his first term.
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I just read an article about a MAGA voter on SNAP benefits who asked her mother-in-law for food money. "Until their benefits come in". Neither she, nor her husband have jobs. They have two children. They exist on government benefits.
Are things "great" enough yet for them?
The MIL said "no".
Vivian Salama: And there were other meetings that the president held, obviously stopped in Malaysia,
Seung Min, he stopped in Japan, he stopped in South Korea.
And, I mean, the pomp and fanfare was just in full force.
The flattery efforts were in full force.
What do you think world leaders are learning about how to deal with President Trump?
Seung Min Kim, White House Reporter, The Associated Press: Flattery is the fastest way to his heart
is what they have learned and really utilizing in Trump's second term.
My colleagues and I wrote about this, about how the president really did seem to be enjoying himself on this trip. You know, during the first term, these foreign trips weren't necessarily his favorite
-- the favorite parts of his term in the White House.
But now, especially that world leaders have learned to pull out all the stops for President Trump,
he's really having a good time.
You saw him on the tarmac in Malaysia dancing as he was welcomed to the country.
In South Korea, he was granted with honors and a gold crown.
Obviously, gold is very deliberately chosen there.
But this has, this is not unique to this particular trip.
You saw how at NATO earlier this year that the secretary general basically said he was the daddy to NATO.
They know that, you know, flattering him, kind of bolstering him is the way to work with him.
And that's certainly something that world leaders have learned and is a change from his first term.
— Washington Week, 10/31/2025