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If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung.

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Philip Bump@pbump.com

I wrote about Trump and Greenland and the Nobel Peace Prize and how the common thread is vanity and ego. Which also means that sometimes Trump will take an escape hatch so he can still claim a win (like accepting a prize from Machado). www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

That’s why you never give him the hatch - break him. Call him out to his face, call him an idiot - to his face- physically impose on him, get in his space, make him feel small, talk about his age, his frailty, his senility - to his face. These leaders and the media need to bully this bitch.

Exactly - no one should afford him any respect - ask him at press conference what kind of diapers he wears and when he started shitting himself. He shits that down, next guy ask the same questions. Take polls about how many people think Trump is “stupid” , a “rapist” or “hate” him, use these words

Nobody did anything to appease trump Remember he said he fixed things with china and the Chinese government said publicly they didn’t sign anything. It’s typical dementia behaviour to pretend that they fixed a problem when they didn’t

He blew it when he admitted he was doing it all because he didn't get the Nobel. Calls for the 25th were getting louder, he needed to back down. So he did, for now.

The Art of the Deal - 1) declare that a loss is actually a win, 2) assign underlings to work out pesky details 3) blame them when everyone finally sees it was a loss 4) reward right wing media for helping pull the wool over peoples’ eyes.

Except things have definitely not returned to the statute quo. US reputation as a stable reliable partner is destroyed. Alternatively trade not involving US. Lucrative military supply deals have been negotiated & planned elsewhere. No win for anyone, especially for Trump, just less worse.

"There really are no substantive concessions that Mark Rutte could have given Trump', FRANCE 24's Brussels correspondent Dave Keating explains, adding that the NATO chief may 'have just explained to Trump the existing rights that the US has in Greenland and sold this to Trump as something new'. 😂

One of the things I appreciate about Carney is that he hasn’t flinched while trump has been wildly flailing. He’s not being placated during moments when trump isn’t focussed on us. He continues the push forward to make us less dependant on the US.

No way he wrote this - it's too coherent. Someone did it for him then slapped on his "thank you for your attention" crap to make it look like it came from him. His staffers are in major damage control mode.

He did not save face!!!! That is the media’s words!! He showed exactly what a deranged and insane lunatic he is!!! Start writing about the 25th amendment!!

He. Will. Not. Move. On. The win for Trump is more negotiations, more threats, keep the issue alive for as long as possible. The so-called adults in the room are no longer trying to manage Trump, They're encouraging him, weaponizing him. Their language is more explicitly belligerent than his is.

Read between the lines: *he didn't post this (sentence structure/vocab) *someone gave demendon a happy pill & tv time while others deescalated/ reassured IntlBiz+Nato *he has no idea where/what the diplo-convos are *he's awaiting instructions... + another prize. Expect a call fm Ru in 3-2...

Our American household listened to Carney's full speech and cheered throughout. Other Western nations must and it appears will create a framework which gives them equal voice to the U.S., as it appears the old alliance, which trusted and depended on the United States, has lived its last day.

It's bullshit is what it is. Trump's word is worthless, his attention span is short, and he'll be back to threatening to take over Greenland again soon enough regardless of what is in this alleged agreement.

First, he can't call Greenland Iceland!! Let's start there. He won't take it, the financial world would block him or sell our bonds ( our $ will be worth sh*t! )

There is no question that Prime Minister Carney delivered a world economic turning point speech. Truly, his speech was directed towards trump and the USA. It was "for whom the bell tolls"

Very much agree with that except I would say that while it was certainly about the actions of the USA (and Russia) the call to action is for everybody else.

Carney’s speech is still true and relevant. Nothing is true that comes out of Trump’s mouth and this is not a time of relief. That time will come when him and his administration are gone.

People don’t seem to understand exactly how much the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and New Zealand actually need to continue to work together sharing security info. Telling a known boaster and snitch to stick it could really fuck things up. So, for now, we diplomatically suck it up.

I'd believe Carney's words over this garbage. I don't believe for one second NATO wants the US to know anything of their plans. He proved he cannot be trusted so they're telling him what they need to placate him. No way is that Golden Dome going to ahead. No way.

The world does not care about America's political system. They just want him and his party gone. And our opposition leaders act like everything is normal and it's just a misunderstanding about the price of eggs. To the Dem Party, nothing is more important than preserving the illusion of democracy.

🇨🇦 loved his speech Alone you’re weak, together we are bigger than anything orange head can begin to imagine Everybody, keep ringing the bells

Carney’s speech was awesome. So well written, spoken and all on topic. His plans are spot on. Move on without the US and never be dependent on them and don’t include them. (As a US citizen I’d rather refer to “them” in my head and not me.) would Canada please annex the US? (And I do include myself.)

What did they promise him? What did they give up? What part of their tough talk did they weasel back on? What part of “do not apease the bully” did they not understand? Please tell me all the capitulation was on trump’s part

He also doesn't have Wormtongue Miller in his ear 24/7 in Davos, so it's easier to get him off the stupid ideas Miller puts in his head. Once he's back in Florida/Washington, he'll be back to "invade!"

This is Trump's usual "bluster and BS tweet" ... whenever he gets nothing done at a major event, or he blows it up, we get these tweets to distract from his latest fail ... we'll get a couple of these then he'll fk something else up and no-one will do anything about it... fk, I'm tired of his crap

This feels like NATO members flattered Trump in a closed session and he immediately posted this. History suggests he'll talk to someone else in a few hours and be back to demanding Icela... err, Greenland. If not, he'll move on to threatening Canada or Mexico or Panama or something.

They need to start standing up to him. Everyone does, people , press, Dems, world leaders. He’s a bully how always backs down when confronted and he hates feeling shame.

That’s not great Philip. People expect us citizens to try and stop Trump while we are arrested, assaulted, tear gassed, and literally shot and murdered-but world leader can’t speak up?

No, everyone knows that Rutte has no mandate to discuss a "framework" for buying Greenland. And some far-right parties in Europe have a hard time now, being accused for alliance with MAGA. Some are accused for being putinists. Migration politics have changed much in EU, not their card any longer.

They & maga admin will let him think he won when all along the U.S. has had a military base on Greenland. Pituffik Space Base formerly Thule Air Base is a U.S. Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland. Wikipedia

About 150 U.S. service members are stationed there. There was 6,000 there during the Cold War. Denmark was a founding member of NATO in 1949. In 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement has allowed the U.S. to operate the base under a NATO framework, as long as both Denmark & the U.S. remain NATO members.

This will never happen. Something new and shiner will come along and he will turn his narcissistic attention away from Iceland, I mean Greenland, I mean, Venezuela, I mean the Fed, I mean Blue Sanctuary cities, Gov Newsom, Ukraine, Canada, Nobel Prize, 🏆 Biden Biden Biden 🤡

He just make shit up. There’s no concept of a deal. He just made it up, trying to save face. Again, the Republicans in Congress could stop this anytime and they allow it to continue.

I'll go further and say whether this deal is real or not is immaterial. They should STILL crater our economy. Greenland wasn't the issue. It was a final straw. The american people are way overdue for a harsh lesson in what it means to be part of a global economy and what it means to have allies.

Trump doesn’t know what’s going on; even if he did, his word has always been meaningless. He announces deals that don’t exist. He reneges on commitments. He doesn’t even remember what commitments and promises. And Mark Rutte doesn’t have authority to negotiate on behalf of Denmark and Greenland.

There is no way that Trump wrote that message. He may have given permission to someone else to write it, but the prose is simply is too coherent. (Completely short on details, so it sounds like for now, until Trump changes his mind, the status quo holds—we’ve long had a military base in Greenland.

He is lying he can never be trusted. He has broke all rules. All laws all principles constitution. If EU leaders think he can be trusted they are fools. Gavin Newsome is correct. He should have brought knee pads to cowardly EU leaders.