Norwegens Staatschef reagiert auf Trumps „Respektverlust“ vor seinem Land

Anyone who has ever had a toddler will have some handle on how to deal with Trump. The difference of course is that the world’s leaders are dealing with a toddler in charge of the largest military on earth. That’s the new and dangerous ground.

That’s a sensible pragmatic and diplomatic politician.

Trump never had any respect for Norway. He respects Putin. He admires and envies several other autocrats and dictators. But he is incapable of esteeming any leader of a democratic country who is intelligent, articulate and rational. He is contemptuous of any such leader who dares to challenge any of his absurd claims and proclamations, and he **hates** any leader who seeks to thwart him.

Having said that, he has the psychopath’s talent for manipulation, and he is capable of being polite and even charming when he’s dealing with someone who he believes might be useful to him in the future. Far too many politicians have dealt with this side of Trump, and then fallen into the trap of believing that his **true** persona is reasonable and open to rational discussions which might lead to a mutually beneficial outcome.

Life is a zero-sum game for Trump; he either wins *everything*, or he is a loser. His latest comments on Greenland – or Iceland, as he calls it – are sane(ish), but I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this.

I don’t fully agree with the positive response here. Instead of „we understand some people defecate differently and respect your clarity on this position“ it is sometimes advisable to just ban the person that shits on your carpet from your house, call him a carpet shitter and let everyone be known that it is ridiculous to accept a carpet shitter as your leader.

While it looks shocking for a sane person who can add two and two together, Trumps blaring ignorance of the facts fits perfectly into his world view. Trump believes that everything in the world works like the real estate market, that applying more and more force onto someone until he sells works. And that if you want something, you just influence the decision makers with pressure, money or both. Because that’s what Trump would do. If Trump were in the position of the Prime Minister, he would put a lot of pressure onto the commission to make sure someone he hates for offending him would never get the peace price.

She looks like Nikki Brooks

Jonas IQ is about three four five times the size of Trump

Donald Trump is worse than the average keyboard warrior