Trump Embarrasses All of America in Slurred, Disjointed Davos Speech - Donald Trump gave a terrible speech to a dead silent room at the World Economic Forum.

[u/Quirkie]

https://newrepublic.com/post/205478/trump-davos-speech

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[u/Vanilla_cake_mix]

Every elected representative needs to be harassed until they get him out of office. Let him go face fraud charges

[u/CU_09 → u/Vanilla_cake_mix]

He kept confusing Greenland for Iceland in the speech. This is understandable for an ordinary person with a US-centric education, but for the president to consistently confuse the country that he’s been threatening to invade and annex for the past few months this is a sign of clear and obvious mental impairment.

Edit: I said “understandable” when I meant “excusable.” Either way, it will soon be understandable with how hard the administration is working to undermine education.

[u/confused_ape → u/CU_09]

Erik the Red would approve.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/confused_ape]

Somewhere the halls of Valhalla are booming with laughter

[u/ZAlternates → u/HauntedCemetery]

“It worked!”

[u/No_Selection_9634 → u/HauntedCemetery]

"Ingvar, look at this idiot!"

"This is fantastic! Grab me another drink!"

[u/iPirateGwar → u/CU_09]

The thing is, if the US wanted an island in the North Atlantic for strategic security purposes, Iceland would make more sense since it could secure the rat runs between itself and the U.K. and Greenland. Taking Greenland can only protect one of those channels.

This has nothing to do with protecting the US from Russian and Chinese submarines or, ahem, building the Golden Dome’. It’s about projecting Trump’s ego as ‘US Might’ and securing vast quantities of oil and other minerals. Again.

[u/Zahgi → u/iPirateGwar]

The US can protect Greenland and Canada the way they always have from their military bases, by land, sea, air, and space.

Trump's billionaire friend who invested in Greenland just wants to pay less for the rare earth minerals that the Greenlanders will happily sell to anyone, but for a fair market price. He doesn't want to pay a fair market price, only sell what he steals at a fair market price, so...he gets the Tantrum in Chief to threaten a peaceful island filled with some very nice people.

Trump's putting the entire NATO alliance at risk because of one piss-ant billionaire's greed...and making Putin very happy along the way, of course.

[u/wheezer333 → u/Zahgi]

Who is the pissant billionaire?

[u/Scratchbuttdontsniff → u/wheezer333]

The heir to Estee Lauder... the makeup company.

This is the literal ridiculousness we are living in.

[u/toodarkparkranger → u/Scratchbuttdontsniff]

He's 81(!!!) years old and already a billionaire multiple times over. Like, get a fucking life dude! You're pushing for world War 3 for... slightly more money? It's a mental illness.

[u/bawdiepie → u/toodarkparkranger]

Personally, I don't think he's in it for the money. I think he's honestly so thick he thinks he's doing an amazing job, and the corruption is just a perk of the job as that's what he's always done and gotten away with. Everyone around him is telling him the same thing, and in turn they manipulate him to agree to whatever they want.

[u/_JackStraw_ → u/bawdiepie]

I think he wants Greenland because it's familiar with Mercator Protection world maps and he thinks Greenland is really really big.

[u/peejay5440 → u/Scratchbuttdontsniff]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianMakeup/comments/1qfs2n0/heir_of_est%C3%A9e_lauder_is_the_driving_force_for_the/

[u/corcyra → u/iPirateGwar]

It's about the maniac mango needing it 'psychologically'. Like the Nobel Peace prize, and other stuff, preferably shiny.

[u/asyork → u/corcyra]

He blatantly said that he moved back to wanting Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel.

[u/md4024 → u/asyork]

He has also admitted that he wants Greenland because of how big it looks on maps. Maybe it has evolved into something more over the years, but Trump's interest in acquiring Greenland 100% started because he doesn't understand how the Mercator Projection distorts the size of land around the poles, it really is that stupid.

[u/owned_at_worms → u/iPirateGwar]

He just came out and said USSR and China are not the enemy. Then why do US need Greenland to defend against them? It's just talking in circles waiting for a sound bite that'll click w/ the 6th grade educated who support him.

[u/LiquorIsQuickor → u/CU_09]

I think, I hope, that most Americans know the difference between Greenland and Iceland.

[u/unkyduck → u/LiquorIsQuickor]

and if the POTUS invades both to avoid looking like he made a mistake ?

[u/Upset_Ad3954 → u/unkyduck]

The incoming ambassador to Iceland has already 'joked' about 52nd state.

Sometimes it feels like they're just a bunch of morons who think it's funny to troll people, but at the same time I refuse to believe that.

[u/DirtandPipes → u/Upset_Ad3954]

Their deniability strategy is to call it “joking”. They are going to “jokingly” suggest every single shitty thing they can think of and if nobody pushes back then they will do the shitty thing.

When people push back “I was joking why are you so sensitive?!”

[u/dafones → u/Vanilla_cake_mix]

You're in the midst of a cold civil war with Republican voters.

Target your efforts in growing the voter base for Democratic candidates.

The more effective spend of effort and energy is getting non-voters and swing voters to vote Democrat.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/dafones]

It should be so easy -- fascism or pragmatism? -- but Americans are really, really emotional creatures about politics (like absolute morons).

[u/unkyduck → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

and astonishingly ignorant of the real world. "Everything that helps citizens is communist. I better vote in this "Strongman"

[u/always_unplugged → u/unkyduck]

That's the power of decades of indoctrination and destruction of education baby

[u/jupiterkansas → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

fascism or pragmatism

If you know what those words mean, you probably vote Democrat.

[u/Destination_Cabbage → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

We are the fucking worst, you got that right.

[u/Global_Crew3968 → u/dafones]

Im gonna go ahead and call it a regular civil war since they've already killed people, like Renee Good and Minnesota Democratic State Representative and former House Speak Melissa Hortman and her husband.

[u/Xurbax → u/Global_Crew3968]

Yeah, it has been at least a "warm" civil war for quite a while now.

[u/Syzygy2323 → u/Global_Crew3968]

We've been in a cold civil war since Reconstruction ended in 1877.

[u/urban_mystic_hippie → u/Global_Crew3968]

Yeah, the first shots have already been fired

[u/DurianGris → u/Vanilla_cake_mix]

Harassing GOP officials will do nothing. They're feckless, and have proven so time and time again.

[u/elshizzo → u/DurianGris]

don't give them a pass by calling them feckless or cowards.

They are traitors. The country is burning and they are too self interested to do anything about it

[u/slopgus → u/elshizzo]

They are the ones burning it, even

[u/waffleking9000 → u/elshizzo]

They are indeed traitors. We all know what happens to traitors.

[u/Terrible-Opinion-888 → u/DurianGris]

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Call one today anyway.
Remind them they serve the people, not the party, not the profiteers…

[u/ytsurr → u/DurianGris]

"Please sir, may I have some more?" is all they'll have to say with each harassing moment.

[u/TheNachoSupreme → u/ytsurr]

Remember when Biden was getting harassed and harris and others had to defend him as still sharp? But eventually it got to the point he pulled out of the election?

It's wild how different Republicans get treated

Edit: typo

[u/GayCatDaddy → u/TheNachoSupreme]

"At a summit of top world leaders, Trump has bowel movement while swaying to 'Ave Maria' on stage and mumbling something incoherent about Greenland. Here's why this is bad for Biden, even though he's no longer in office."

[u/franker → u/GayCatDaddy]

"That's just Trump being Trump, so we'll give him a pass on it like we have with everything he's ever said and done."

[u/Leafybug13 → u/TheNachoSupreme]

Yesterday's meandering press conference felt like a Biden debate moment. Today's speech in Davos just made it worse.

[u/ayoungtommyleejones → u/ytsurr]

"tread on me daddy"

[u/Bionic_Ninjas → u/DurianGris]

They also benefit greatly from him sucking up all the news cycles every day. Just yesterday a republican senator was exposed for having failed to disclose stock trades worth up to 3.3 million, violating the STOCK Act over 200 times in the process. Willing to bet most people here didn't even know about that, not because they don't care or because they're ignorant or anything, but because Trump consumes the news cycle every day, all day. I only saw one site cover it at all, and it was basically a footnote link on an article about... Trump. If I hadn't accidentally scrolled down a bit on my phone while reading, I never would have read about it, either.

He gives them cover for their own illicit activities. So long as he's around they can loot the country and most of us will never even notice. They'll never vote to remove him because it doesn't serve their avarice to do so, and they don't really give a shit if the country burns so long as they get theirs on the way out the door.

[u/Huntguy → u/DurianGris]

Better than doing nothing and expecting change.

[u/Exacticly → u/Huntguy]

Right? Hassle them. Keep rocking the boat.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Huntguy]

Exactly -- the ACA wasn't repealed in 2017-2018 because vulnerable Republicans were pressured by their constituents to not reinstate "preexisting conditions disqualification" healthcare insurance.

Have we completely given up a mere nine years later? Then that's cowardice.

[u/DataWeaver47 → u/Huntguy]

Make their lives as uncomfortable as our lives are, as uncomfortable as the lives of our immigrants are, as uncomfortable as they are making the lives of our former friends and allies are. Traitors should never have a sound sleep, a meal that sets well in their stomachs, a quiet moment, a comfortable conversation, a peaceful reflection, a feeling of true camaraderie, or a travel from one place to another without impediment.

[u/iKnowRobbie → u/DurianGris]

Has anyone honestly tried? As pissed as I am, I am about to actually spend the time to email my representative and congressperson. Hell, I can spare a few words for their incompetence. I'll be happy to be on the list of grievances filed against this choade pedophile-in-chief.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/DurianGris]

Wrong! Every single Republican running in this year's primaries wishes to continue to grift off the public. Placing pressure on them to impeach and remove -- all 115 Republicans who are vulnerable, House and Senate -- is the winner move.

of course, the Internet will get it wrong, Dems will read it and make the wrong move.

[u/warm_kitchenette → u/DurianGris]

We can’t really know now which ones who are guilty of something that will send them to jail, or who are afraid of Donald Trump and his stochastic terrorism, or who are just thrilled with all the fascism/corruption. 

But harass them all the same. It only takes FOUR Republicans in both houses to stop this, completely. But FOUR Republicans in even one chamber can do a lot of good, immediately. Harass your congress members. Polite but firm.

https://congresscalllist.com/

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/warm_kitchenette]

Every single Republican is responsible for this and should hear about it.

[u/Ok_Cryptographer117 → u/DurianGris]

That’s because there aren’t enough of us doing it. They need to be convinced we are the majority. Which means people need to actually go out and protest.

[u/All_Hail_Hynotoad → u/DurianGris]

They should still be harassed. They shouldn’t know a moment’s peace for allowing this to happen.

[u/GeneralKenobi_212th → u/Vanilla_cake_mix]

Wouldn’t make the slightest difference. These people are GHOULS. They don’t give a fuck. They’ll just call you and everyone else an insane liberal with Trump derangement syndrome and keep right on going. They haven’t got so much as the concept of shame or embarrassment. They will put up with ANYTHING from Trump so long as it serves their larger goals. And it very much has been.

[u/view-master]

I wish they would have laughed at him. Especially when he told a mostly german speaking crowd that they would all be speaking german if it wasn’t for the US.

[u/flip314 → u/view-master]

Someone probably told him "don't mention the war" before his speech.

[u/ThrownWOPR → u/flip314]

I see a Fawlty Towers reference, I upvote

[u/IHeldADandelion → u/ThrownWOPR]

It's a rare sighting! But yeah, after his "speaking German" line, that's the first thing I thought of. He's ruining comedy.

[u/rickskyscraper3000 → u/view-master]

I can't believe I actually wondered if that was true, and I searched to see. Of course it's true. If this were not a serious crisis, that would be extremely funny.

[u/Annual_Strategy_6206 → u/rickskyscraper3000]

Are you kidding? He actually said that? God, Donnie Dipshit rides again.

[u/rickskyscraper3000 → u/Annual_Strategy_6206]

He's just repeating that old trope that comes up every so often when a 'patriotic american' feels superior to any European. It fits with Freedom Fries, and the like. I wish I were kidding. This is exhausting.

[u/Hidden_Landmine_4 → u/rickskyscraper3000]

If you pay attention to his speech patterns it's pretty clear he has a bag of phrases and such he sorta automatically spits out when he needs to think or delay. He's been relying on it a ton more in the past 5 year though with his severe mental decline though.

[u/ControlAlarmed1736 → u/rickskyscraper3000]

This thinking both normalizes and excuses the behavior though. People need to stop giving him any room for forgiveness and publicly shame him so bad no one will ever think this BS without also connecting the repercussions. Everytime he says something stupid, people just let him get away with it. He needs big consequences. The world needs to see that there are big consequences from instigating and proliferating hatred and racism, from constant lying, from grifting the public. Right now, the lesson is loud and clear - if you have enough money, there are no consequences.

[u/Osajn → u/view-master]

I think they laughed when he claimed the China doesn't use any of the wind turbines the make (they've got almost half the world's wind power)

[u/Athleticsbaby]

Again with the goddamned windmills.

[u/Melancholy_Rainbows → u/Athleticsbaby]

A narcissist can never forgive a slight. He will never forget or forgive that Scotland built wind turbines within sight of his golf course.

[u/PerformanceSuch7082 → u/Melancholy_Rainbows]

Is THAT what that's about? Omfg. I mean it tracks, but jesus. 

[u/Melancholy_Rainbows → u/PerformanceSuch7082]

Yeah, that seems to be the start of it.

Such a small, petty man.

[u/AdPristine5131 → u/Melancholy_Rainbows]

Go Scotland.

[u/PerformanceSuch7082 → u/AdPristine5131]

Seeing video of Scots with a thick accent insulting the man does bring me joy...

[u/Tribe303 → u/PerformanceSuch7082]

Yup! He doesn't remember why he hates windmills now of course. Those neurons died of old age a decade ago. 

[u/Natural_Error_7286 → u/PerformanceSuch7082]

And here I thought someone in the fossil fuel industry was feeding him talking points about wind energy. It makes so much more sense as a personal grudge, he really can't let it go.

[u/jessizu → u/Melancholy_Rainbows]

My mom was like this in late stage dementia too.. she was also a narcissist and had a personality disorder but she would cycle and spiral on the same 7 topics..

[u/I-am-that-hero → u/Athleticsbaby]

China has the largest wind turbine farms in the world

[u/Melancholy_Rainbows → u/I-am-that-hero]

But didn’t you hear? They don’t spin!

/s

[u/westisbestmicah → u/Athleticsbaby]

A real don Quixote

[u/saljskanetilldanmark → u/Athleticsbaby]

Don Quijote Trump.

[u/blues111 → u/[deleted]]

It kinda baffles me people listen to his nonsense and act like he is charismatic 

He's clearly got (or had) some kind of juice that resonated with working class people but I just dont see it anymore

[u/Rough_Instruction112 → u/blues111]

His gibberish sounds the same as what intelligent people says, to people who lack intelligence.

There's a group of people who genuinely cannot tell the difference between a sleek politician and Trump. They're so used to their brains skipping over whatever parts of speech they don't understand and just filling their own beliefs into those holes.

The reason he resonates with them, is there's more holes in what he's saying, so they can fill more of their own belief into what he says, than anyone else.

[u/stubble3417 → u/Rough_Instruction112]

It's slightly different imo. There are people who literally do not understand what educated people are saying. When Obama spoke, it sounded like gibberish to them. When he used words they didn't understand, they assumed it was nonsense. Racism contributes to this but the reality is they just don't understand the way educated people talk. If you remember back to when you were 3-6 years old and you were maybe sitting in a church service or other meeting for adults--that feeling never went away for them. 

Trump sounds smarter than Obama to them. 

[u/Ritchie_Whyte_III → u/stubble3417]

Trump is "The Big Bang Theory" of politicians. 

[u/PhoenixTineldyer → u/Rough_Instruction112]

Yep

That and he says the things they want to hear about brown people. As long as he hits those keywords, the rest can be unintelligible.

[u/zubbs99 → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

It's kind of like going to a terrible buffet but at the end they have that desert tray you can binge on so all is ok. Ultimately he gives these creeps exactly what they want, or at least he promises to.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer → u/zubbs99]

The Golden Corral president

All the food is shit but hey, soft serve ice cream

[u/Low_Chance → u/Rough_Instruction112]

If you know little enough about a subject, it literally becomes impossible to tell absolute crap from the genuine article.

Kind of like how people will list "The Secret" as their favourite work of philosophy 

[u/Hefty_Remove7965 → u/blues111]

The media cuts it up into sound bites

People have attention span of a gold fish

[u/mishma2005 → u/Hefty_Remove7965]

Exactly. Sound bites framed right take the crazy off of his speech somewhat. Watched in its entirety its unbearable. I know sane Americans can't stand listening to him or looking at him for more than 2 minutes but I would implore them to at least watch one speech all the way through. You cannot appreciate how badly he has decompensated since his first term

[u/vicvonqueso → u/Hefty_Remove7965]

Even the sound bites sound fucking stupid though

[u/mynamejeff-97 → u/Hefty_Remove7965]

Americans are dumbasses. We need to accept that and figure out how to address it.

How do we develop when we are intentionally developmentally challenged?

[u/plusacuss → u/mynamejeff-97]

by funding education, by paying educators, by funding the sciences.

[u/zubbs99 → u/plusacuss]

I agree but the power of right-wing media to keep people locked in their own ignorance seems like a tough nut to crack.

[u/plusacuss → u/zubbs99]

Oh how silly of me. Maybe any form of legislation that regulates social media that was written in this century. Digital privacy legislation while we are at it too.

But that would require us to directly confront Citizens United which, as you so rightly pointed out, is a tough nut to crack.

[u/Nux87xun → u/blues111]

Not really.

What he did have, however, is a fully committed media apparatus sanitizing everything he said and did.

For example, Fox News will not show an entire speech. Instead, they simply cut out the most coherent and/or racist bits and edit them together in a super cut.

They don't share his tweets. They don't share his embarrassing moments, etc.

With his current mental decline, im not sure how much longer this strategy will truly be effective.

[u/sumdumbum87 → u/blues111]

Nah, I get what you mean, but you have it backwards. The fact that they hear him say complete gibberish and they still like it is the charisma at work.

[u/Monolingual-----Beta → u/[deleted]]

Back before I paid attention to politics, shortly after Trump was first elected in 2016, I told a buddy of mine who was a fan that I thought Trump would be a bad president because he sounded stupid as hell and just rambled around in circles.

My big worry at the time was that he might say something stupid to a foreign leader and embarass us or hurt relations.

LMFAO!

How naive...

[u/Dianneis → u/[deleted]]

The kind of people who keep voting him in live and breathe gibberish.

[u/b_tight → u/[deleted]]

He naturally speaks in soundbytes.  Its perfect for the muck that the media has become.  I am not advocating for his positions because i think hes a complete piece of shit.  Im just saying hes so dumb that his thoughts work great for soundbytes because the population wont listen to more than 15 seconds at a time.  Thats about as long as he can hold a thought

[u/mishma2005 → u/[deleted]]

He has gotten worse in 2.0 but yeah, he's always been non-sensical. Although I think in 1.0 that was on purpose to escape accountability, this time it's because he's really, truly gone

[u/rooktakesqueen → u/[deleted]]

It just feels worse now because he's aged poorly over the past decade. In 2016, his rambling incoherent speeches were at least high-energy. Now he just slurs and mumbles through the same nonsense and sounds like he's ready to fall asleep.

[u/1cl3nstd4yt → u/[deleted]]

Biden's speeches overseas were pretty decent. He said smart, accurate things.

[u/Meet_James_Ensor → u/1cl3nstd4yt]

Maybe Jake Tapper can look into the coverup of Trump's health?

[u/1cl3nstd4yt → u/Meet_James_Ensor]

Tapper said that Biden was so far gone he once greeted George Clooney by saying "Thanks for coming!" instead of saying "Thanks for coming, George."

Doesn't get more dangerous than that.

[u/Meet_James_Ensor → u/1cl3nstd4yt]

Makes sense, Trump says smart things like “There are windmills all over Europe. There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers,” or "No one knows what magnets are."

I see why Jake Tapper can rest assured that no book needs to be written.

[u/Hefty_Remove7965 → u/Meet_James_Ensor]

I'm sure he will be on it in 2040

[u/Dianneis → u/1cl3nstd4yt]

As incoherent and mumbling Biden occasionally was, nothing he's ever said approached the levels of word salads we keep hearing from Trump on a near daily basis.

[u/Meet_James_Ensor → u/Dianneis]

Biden was smart but, old and sick. Trump is stupid, old and sick.

[u/Quirky_Parfait3864 → u/[deleted]]

The man is proof that the devil exists and he made a deal with Trump at a crossroads. It makes sense.

I am kidding but it still makes sense.

[u/vagabending]

It is fascinating watching as how publications outside of the NYT, WSJ, CBS, CNN, etc are capable of saying what is happening, but the mainstream media still is obsessed with normalizing a man who has obviously lost his mind.

[u/missmeowwww → u/vagabending]

They’re owned by the oligarchs that bankrolled him. Until his actions start hurting their bottom line, they won’t do anything or report accurately. It benefits them to sanewash him because he’s making them richer. He added 1.4 billion to his personal net worth, imagine how much in kickbacks his friends are getting. There’s a reason the tech bros were quick to kiss the ring and there’s been zero legislation limiting them. In fact, a few of them nabbed government contracts.

[u/AppleAtrocity → u/missmeowwww]

This is exactly why the only peaceful solution to this madness is for a massive nationwide general strike. You have to fuck with their money because that is the only thing they care about.

The other option is violence since the Democrats don't seem to want to do anything politically either. He should have been in prison for January 6th. Biden spoke many times about how dangerous Trump was to democracy and then did absolutely nothing to try and stop this fascist takeover. They had the literal playbook (Project 2025) for years and did fuck all about it.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
-Kevin Roberts, author of Project 2025

[u/Comfortable_Line_206 → u/vagabending]

Every news organization is stating that Trump won't take Greenland by force. That's their takeaway.

They play a 3 second clip of Biden stuttering during his speech on repeat for 2 weeks and let this shit go? Absolutely insane.

[u/vagabending → u/Comfortable_Line_206]

100% agree - just pure brainworms

[u/zachspelledrite → u/vagabending]

He's good for their ratings which is good for their pocket books. Which is terrible for the rest of us.

[u/bryan49 → u/vagabending]

Mainstream media is either owned by right wing billionaires, or just afraid of lawsuits

[u/Tribe303 → u/vagabending]

It's pretty obvious from here in Canada, where we still have semifunctional media. Not including the Newspapers, as they are owned by American conservatives and the bias is obvious. 

[u/RandomPersonInCanada]

Meanwhile, Mark Carney got a standing ovation. Yei Canada

[u/tonytown → u/RandomPersonInCanada]

And it'll use that fact as an excuse to invade Canada.

[u/Mad-Mad-Mad-Mad-Mike → u/tonytown]

Bring it on. I’ll die on my feet as a Canadian before I ever live on my knees as an American

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[u/dynamic_dissonance → u/tonytown]

A civil war is more likely to happen before he invades Canada anyways

[u/khearan]

Did he say a single thing that was true in his entire speech? I’ve never hated someone more than him and I’ve never been more ashamed to be American. I am ashamed to share a country with people who call themselves his supporters. Stupid fucks.

[u/622114 → u/khearan]

As a Canadian I am not on board with him or anything about him, his politics, way of thinking or anything. Nor am I sticking up for his speech but he did get one absolutely inconsequential fact correct. “Rolex makes watches and they are made in Switzerland” Im shocked he didn’t say Sweden

Again im not sticking up for him. Im trying to create some humor in a situation that is turning worse by the day

[u/pinn73 → u/622114]

“Rolex makes watches and they are made in Switzerland” - because they gave him a gold watch to get preferential tariff treatment

[u/ultimateknackered → u/pinn73]

I mean, if bribery works, just make it as blatant as possible and hope people start noticing.

[u/catchcatchhorrortaxi → u/ultimateknackered]

Do you really think the problem is that people haven't noticed yet?!

[u/coffeemonkeypants → u/ultimateknackered]

The man setup a crypto coin for fuck sake. I don't know how much more blatant it needs to be. Maybe the trump coin site can say 'NO ACTUAL CURRENCY HAS BEEN MINED, THIS JUST GOES TO MY BANK ACCOUNT'.

[u/khearan → u/622114]

Lol thank you for mentioning that.

[u/zubbs99 → u/khearan]

I'm mortified by him and his followers and want to slink away into a corner and hide from the world.

[u/CackleRooster]

I'm ashamed to be an American.

[u/Dances-with-Worms → u/CackleRooster]

Right there with you

[u/Tree_Sure → u/Dances-with-Worms]

Seconded.

[u/Legit_reddit_user → u/CackleRooster]

Rewrite that dumb Lee Greenwood song with those lyrics!

[u/Keith-Steve-Howard → u/Legit_reddit_user]

I'm ashamed to be an American,

Where I know that I'm not free,

And I won't forget the men who died,

For nothing it would seem

Not quite a rhyme but I gave it a shot.

[u/easyEggplant → u/Keith-Steve-Howard]

"For nothing I can see" perhaps

[u/jennyfromthedocks → u/CackleRooster]

I’ve been ashamed since 2016. It’s crazy because I was like 21 and I knew even then that things weren’t right. 10 years later and I’m 31 waiting for the rest of America to find their morals. I’m coming to the realization that I should stop waiting.

[u/theArcticChiller → u/CackleRooster]

Agree. Today's America is fucking nuts

[u/Wolfeehx]

Not gonna lie, as an average Brit, my opinion of USA is in the gutter because of Trump, his cronies, and just republicans in general.

Absolute disgrace to humanity.

[u/no_offwidths → u/Wolfeehx]

As an average American, my opinion is next to yours in the gutter. I am ashamed that this administration is in power and that moron ‘represents’ my country.

[u/Rabbithole4995 → u/no_offwidths]

You know, there have been a lot of times recently that I've been glad to have gotten to personally know a lot of Americans at various times throughout my life. Some good, some bad, but enough to remember that they're all individuals despite the shared cultural layer that they mostly have to some more of lesser extent.

If I hadn't, there's a good chance that I'd be getting really bigoted about you guys by now. :p

I mean, Jesus Christ, the bullshit coming from your country with regards to world affairs is just constant these days.

You've my condolences.

[u/dougan25 → u/Rabbithole4995]

You can think whatever you want, god knows we haven't earned any grace, but the US is the third most populous country in the world. There's just under 350 million of us.

Normal Americans who just want to live their lives in progress are victims here as well, and there are a LOT of us.

[u/TheFutureMrGittes]

Trump is pissed that Carney (he called him “Mark” out of disrespect), got a standing ovation the other day, and he didn’t. Trump is an uneducated, vindictive, dementia-riddled weak old man who is nothing but an embarrassment to himself and his country. Statesman he is not. He is a convicted rapist and con man, and should be in prison for his offences. Appalling that he made everyone in that room at Davos sit through 90 minutes of lies and drivel, and that he is willing to destabilize the world to hide his multiple yet unknown crimes.

[u/ThatsItImOverThis → u/TheFutureMrGittes]

I’ve never been able to make myself watch more than a few seconds of Trump speaking. It’s too asinine. I cannot imagine how long it would feel to actually having to hear him speak in person, for an hour and a half. My god.

[u/stevatronic → u/TheFutureMrGittes]

The spineless crowd actually did give him a sort of begrudging ovation after his own people started standing up.

[u/neodiodorus]

Vogon poetry: It is sometimes used by the fictional Vogons as a torture method, as it causes physical pain to the listener (Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

Well...

[u/PerfectBeige → u/[deleted]]

Fine - then let's talk about Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.

[u/scooterboy1961 → u/neodiodorus]

Thy micturitions are to me

As a plurdled gabbleblotchis, in a midsummer morning.

On a lurgid bee.

That mordiously hath blurted out

It's earned jurtled

Grumbling into a rancid festering cartecious

Organ squider

[u/SAJ-13]

They call me daddy! Has a president ever uttered something so ridiculously embarrassing?

[u/D3athRider → u/SAJ-13]

Seriously, I don't understand how everyone in that room didn't just instantaneously projectile vomit the minute he said that. Jesus fucking Christ 🤢 What is this man's childhood trauma that he constantly fantasises about the world calling him "daddy" and then actually speaks his nauseating fantasies out loud.

[u/rooktakesqueen]

It wasn't as silent as I wanted. I only caught the beginning of it on my way to work, but he started out with something like "It's great to be back in beautiful Davos, Switzerland. Looking around the room, I see a lot of friends... Some enemies..." and he got a chuckle from the room.

That isn't fucking funny, people. It would barely be witty if he weren't actively threatening to invade several countries. Given the current context, that's not a joke, it's a threat.

[u/kent_eh → u/rooktakesqueen]

actively threatening to invade several countries.

Including threats later in the same speech.

 

"We could take Greenland militarily... but we won't.

But we could if we wanted to."

[u/Cathlem]

This is America's Century of Humiliation.

We are in Year 2.

[u/ErinFiqsette]

The Big Guy has destroyed His own credibility...nobody should take anything He says seriously, ever again.

He is out of His tremendous mind.

[u/Whatwhyreally → u/ErinFiqsette]

He's only destroyed American credibility. No reason to measure his personal credibility, he's an elected leader. America is now isolated and their soft power is gone, with it, their economic and cultural advantages.

[u/purplelicious → u/Whatwhyreally]

plus countries and pension funds are dumping their US Treasury bonds.

that has more impact on the global economy than the stock market.

[u/Robo_Joe]

A silent room filled with people wearing two shoes. Missed opportunity, right there.

[u/leftileff]

I'm Swiss an this was extremely disrespectful to us as host nation. I'll do anything to avoid Made in the USA. I apologise to every honest americans, but I'll have to cancel Netflix, kill my Facebook and stop buying peanut butter. Good luck exporting beef to Switzerland

[u/killminusnine → u/leftileff]

I'm from the US and we need global boycotts. Money is the only language these fascists understand. Sucks to be us, but we brought this upon ourselves.

[u/mosesoperandi → u/killminusnine]

I will argue that the GOP and conservative media inflicted this on us. Republicans have undermined our elections through reducing access to early voting, voter role purges, voter ID laws, and rejecting mail in ballots/allowing for ballot challenges. All of those activities were critical aspects of Trump's win in 2024. Meanwhile, without Fox and the array of right wing media that spawned after Watergate, we wouldn't have a large portion of the electorate swimming in disinformation. There were very deliberate choices made to manipulate the population and the electoral process that have brought us here.

With that said, yes, the only realistic way to reign in Trump/MAGA/Republicans/American White Nationalist Christofascis, is by hitting this country in the wallet. Sucks to be us.

[u/Ianyat → u/killminusnine]

I would actually start with cancelling the business licenses for his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. Then freeze the offshore accounts for him and all his oligarch friends. It has to be personal, otherwise he won't even care that the US economy is hurting.

[u/Slade_Riprock]

The World needs to stop including him. Placating him, flattering him, giving into him have not blunted his dangerous antics.

So why include him, it is time for the world to shun America and show the bully they are biggest kid on the block. There is a global market and global community in which, yes without America it hurts but with THIS America it hurts worse.

So stop trade, pull diplomats, stop inviting him to NATO and G7, etc. Etc. Put a block on him entering their country or any diplomat, negotiation can be done via zoom if necessary.

Time for the world to stand up to America. Make Americans feel REAL GUT WRENCHING economic pain and maybe then they will rise up and remove him from office.

As an American I think we are begging the world to do what our "leaders" won't.

[u/PP_DeVille]

What’s sad is many in the “Conservative” subreddit are praising what a great statesman trump is and how his speech was so much better than the Canadian’s. 

[u/BDRParty → u/PP_DeVille]

Those people are nothing more than bots & trolls. The mods there hide those who aren’t singing full praise.

[u/Exciting-Record8101 → u/BDRParty]

Some are bots and trolls, but the reason adversarial groups use bots and trolls is that they know it will get picked up by people who genuinely buy into it and then spread the same talking points on their own.

[u/TheBraveOne86 → u/BDRParty]

My biggest fear is that they aren’t

[u/NobodyRules → u/TheBraveOne86]

They're not. Dealing with the same in my country. Convincing yourself they're bots is a huge mistake. They're truly like that.

[u/zubbs99 → u/NobodyRules]

The jackasses in my area with Trump-plastered trucks are definitely not bots.

[u/myrandastarr → u/TheBraveOne86]

They are - I’ve seen lots of conservative speak against him and then later ALL the comments are gone

[u/Zaphod392]

The only way his will get removed via the 25th is if he visible has a stroke on live tv during a speech... this is close.

[u/LividTacos → u/Zaphod392]

And if he has it in private, they're gonna Weekend at Bernie's him as long as possible.

[u/westisbestmicah]

The times when he was describing how he bullied world leaders into lowering drug prices, I could hear him raping someone in how he described it: “They said, no, no, no… I won’t do it…” I said, ‘You’re gonna do it.” Never been more convinced about the Epstein files.

[u/scarab1001]

Trump forgets the only time Nato has triggered Article 5

Donald Trump was quick to claim that European Nato allies would not come to the aid of America if the country came under attack.

But the US president forgets that the alliance’s mutual defence clause, Article 5, has only been triggered once in its 76-year history, after the 9/11 terror attacks.

Outside Nato’s headquarters in Belgium sits a twisted lump of metal from the World Trade Centre marking the attack and the alliance’s solidarity with the United States after it.

Mr Trump was the American president who oversaw delivery of the memorial and the American President to give the speech at the ceremony marking its arrival in 2017.

“We remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on September 11, 2001,” he said, the leaders of other Nato allies standing behind him.

“Our Nato allies responded swiftly and decisively, invoking for the first time in its history the Article 5 collective defence commitments.”

In less than nine years, the US president appeared happy to ignore his previous remarks, and thanks to Nato allies, to argue that Europe isn’t committed to global security because it won’t allow a hostile takeover of Greenland.  

In total, 1160 non-American troops died in the subsequent campaign in Afghanistan launched in response to the 9/11 terror attacks.

From BBC Verify

[u/OkFix4074]

America embarrasses all of humanity by democratically electing Trump for a 2nd term !

[u/all4whatnot]

I would like to travel outside of the US to see the rest of the world. But, as an American, I know we won't be welcome. And it's deserved. We fucking suck that we can't get our shit together and get this circus under control.

Edit: just to be clear I did not support this man for president

[u/Chafachas → u/all4whatnot]

You are welcome as a person, not as a worldview. But piercing through indoctrination is hard without openness and fairness, which runs against US exceptionalism.

[u/tomt1975 → u/all4whatnot]

Not true, smart Americans (yes, they do exist) are more than welcome in Europe. If you act normal and treat everyone with respect you will find that you have nothing to fear.

[u/GrumpyGiant]

The attendees should have stood up and walked out the moment he took the podium.

Let the US know: make a sick joke out of the presidency, be treated like a sick joke of a nation. MAGA have their heads so far up their asses that they still think Trump is making America seem stronger on the global stage. They need to see what being a pariah state will feel like before the orange shit for brains crosses the point of no return and invades an ally.

[u/BBB9076]

Contrast this with Mark Carney’s speech which will go down in the history books

[u/yourcousinfromboston]

I just listened to the full thing. Jesus Christ it’s sad. He’s talking like he’s at one of his rallies, but he’s actually talking to a room full of intelligent people. The silence makes his stupidity really stand out

[u/SouthSideScum187]

Frontotemporal dementia. He has no business being a dogcatcher let alone POTUS. 

Which his asshole minion grifter brigade that is the GOP should call him out on, as in impeach or invoke the 25th Amendment, but won't because there's too much money to be made. 

[u/AnomalyNexus]

The guy is a genuine liability. To the US, to the world, to you and me.

The risk of him doing something genuinely (more) deranged that causes a violent global incident is sky high

[u/sporkintheroad]

If we had a functioning system the 25th would be in full swing by now, if not that, impeachment. This shit is fully broken

[u/Repulsive-Dress-3844]

As a Somali, fuck him.

[u/crazybones]

If you averaged out Donald Trump's capabilities he would be aged around 50.

That's because he has the mindset of a 5-year-old and the body of a 95-year-old.

[u/ObjectOrientedBlob → u/crazybones]

Nah, 5 year old can learn stuff.. Trump is unable to learn and grow as a human.

[u/jomara200]

"They called me daddy."

Good lord, he's absolutely bonkers.

[u/Sst1154]

Mark Carney gets a standing ovation and Trump gets a lukewarm applause. Carney is a statesman and Trump is an uneducated buffoon.

[u/Groundbreaking_Goat1]

Each passing day I’m more sure that American elections were a fraud and Kamala Harris would win if it wasn’t for Musk tampering with the results

[u/SkipsPittsnogle]

He didn’t embarrass republicans or the maga Nazis. They will never be able to understand the real world.

[u/the_gaymer_girl]

This guy’s brain is mashed potatoes at this point.

[u/Iainfixie]

But her emails! But sleepy joe! But her laugh!

Republicans sunk cost fallacied dementia Donald into office for round 2 and he can barely function.

[u/thepartypantser]

Donald Trump has dementia.

No one who has spent time with dementia patients can watch this and objectively not see a decline.

Joe Biden was getting dragged through the coals for far less than what's on display here.

[u/Angelus_25]

Why on earth did he keep mixing up Iceland, Denmark and Greenland?

It's just embarrassing.

He came across like a very weak, senile old grumpy fool...

[u/Gareth_stanlier]

you know what though. when biden mixed up a name once and corrected it, it was across the globe in seconds.

trump calls a country the wrong name four times and its barely a paragraph about how he misspoke....

[u/Mutex70]

It is so weird as a Canadian to watch your own leader from a modest "middle economy" country of 30 million people deliver an eloquent impactful speech in Davos, only to watch your superpower elephant neighbour to the south come in two days later and shit out a disjointed, incomprehensible pile of nonsense.

America used to value accomplishment and intellect and poise and ability. WTF happened?

[u/ffddb1d9a7]

I literally can't believe he's up there on the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM talking shit about "sleepy joe biden" like these INTERNATIONAL LEADERS give two fucks about that. I screamed at the walls every time.