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It must be murder for them to admit it, but suddenly Western European leaders are realizing President Trump was right about ditching the Iran nuclear treaty.

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PARIS…FRANCE…UNDERPANTS
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Like most things, Donald Trump does not understand the riots that have been ongoing in France. He retweeted a tweet from one of his sycophants saying the protests are about “radical leftists” fuel taxes and “We want Trump” was being chanted through the streets of Paris. Other conservatives have been claiming that the protests are against socialism.

The protests are partly about fuel taxes, which French president Emmanuel Macron planned to raise by about 30 cents a gallon and continue to increase over the next few years in a nation where gas is already over $7.00 a gallon. The protests aren’t against socialism, as the taxes aren’t going to social services. People aren’t screaming for an end to the government’s health and education system. And, there has been no chants of “we want Trump.”

Even the most rabid socialist doesn’t want to pay $7.00 a gallon for gas. This increase is hitting the middle class and hurting the rural population in France, making them feel that Macron has abandoned them and bailed on his promises.

Macron is using the tax to expand France’s economy and make it more pro-business. He’s trying to encourage the rich to invest more in the nation. A lot of people in France believe the rich are overtaxed, but they don’t want to be the ones to pick up the slack while cutting them a break.

Macron has actually been cutting social programs, scaling back labor protections, made it easier for companies to hire and fire, and fought unions to end subsidies. Shortly after taking office, he cut taxes for corporations and the wealthiest 10 percent of French households. He’s no Hugo Chavez.

France’s economy is growing, but slowly. Most of the growth is centered in the major cities, like Paris. The rural areas of the nation feel left out and the gas tax hurts them more than their urban countrymen, who don’t need to own cars as much.

The protests are more about an out-of-touch elitist president whose policies favor the wealthy and corporations at the expense of working-class French people, than they are a middle-class rebellion against Marxism. And, they’re definitely not a call for a leader like Donald Trump. I doubt the French would want a president copying the mega tax cut Trump has given to the rich in the United States.

Donald Trump has experts in intelligence, economics, and foreign relations who can explain things to him. Of course, for him to learn from them, he would have to actually listen and comprehend the information. Unfortunately, the president of the United States is much like your crazy uncle and gets most of his information from memes on social media. This is why Trump still believes, even after having it explained to him twice by Bill Gates, that HPV and HIV are the same thing. Why he’s harassing poor Bill gates about that, I do not know.

Trump understands the French protests, HIV, and HPV about as well as he understands tariffs. Trump says he’s a “tariff man,” which is like saying he’s a tax guy. He brags that his tariffs are bringing in millions, not understanding that money is mostly coming from Americans paying for his stupid tariffs. Tariffs are taxes.

Now, thanks in large parts to Trump’s tariffs, the stock market is weakening and doing scary stuff, the economy is slowing down, Factories are closing, people are losing jobs, the deficit is growing even larger, and the U.S. trade deficit is at its highest level in over a decade. In fact, the deficit with China in particular is at a record high.

Trump lied about having a deal with China and the stock market started to rebound. When it was discovered, and the administration actually admitted, that Trump lied about a deal, the market started to tank again. Trump has based his entire economic prowess on the stock market and the trade deficit. Now, we’re seeing what we already knew. There is no prowess. Traders need to stop making decisions based upon the shit that comes out of Captain Dumbass’ mouth.

Tariffman is not a slow learner as there’s no learning whatsoever.

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As described by many viewers, a type of “chill” descended on the left front pew of the National Cathedral when President and Mrs. Trump took their seats beside their immediate predecessors, Barack and Michelle Obama.

Despite being among hundreds of politicians, world leaders, and widely respected dignitaries, Trump was notably the only leader to remove his overcoat and publicly hand it to a uniformed service member as if the officer was serving as a lowly valet.

This is but one of many social “missteps” exhibited by Trump during the service; “missteps” distinctly related to the distorted reality within which 45 lives, as a result of what must be assumed to be a severe and persistent psychological “character” or “personality” disorder (“Axis II pathology”).

The awkward coat removal moment might be dismissed as petty, or simply evidence of distraction. However, multiple other behaviors displayed by Trump at this solemn and unprecedented event must be considered. While most of those in attendance sang (or at least had the wherewithal to politely appear to sing) the opening hymn, the President did not move his lips.

While the congregants, including four former Presidents and their First Lady wives, read aloud the Apostles’ Creed (which was written into the program he held), Trump stood almost defiantly passive and uninvolved — and by all indications, unaware of and/or uncaring about how his behavior would likely be perceived by any reasonable observer.

Throughout much of the eulogizing of the former Navy pilot, CIA Director, Vice President, and Commander-in-Chief now laying in a flag draped casket before him, Trump awkwardly sat with his arms often crossed defensively across his chest and his mouth downturned, again, unaware or uncaring of the negativity and social impropriety conveyed by that disrespectful posture. Social media erupted with thousands of comments, tweets, memes, and posts about the seemingly bizarre demeanor exhibited by Trump during the service.

The President appeared to be acting a manner that was immature and childlike as if he were a rebellious youth dragged to church. Let’s focus on Trump’s behavior during the Apostles’ Creed recitation for a moment. It remains possible that he did not participate because he did not know the piece (a statement of faith used in many Christian denominations), could not read or understand the words written in the program, or simply does not believe in the activity or its premise. Of course, in such a setting, participating in the ritual is a gesture of respect, not necessarily a statement of specific faith. As we have discussed previously, Donald Trump exists in a fantasized realm in which he perceives himself as the eternal emperor of this domain.

In such a position, even a gesture of respect to another person, alive or deceased, is internally perceived by Trump as subordinating himself to a higher power or a common courtesy that would be inconsistent with the worldview within which Trump lives — in which “appropriate” behaviors are determined by Trump’s view of his own self-interest and satisfaction of his own emotional needs of the moment, without any other consideration.

Similarly, it would be inconsistent and out of character for Trump to laud the accomplishments of another President, as if to do so would implicitly call into question his belief in his own omnipotent and total superiority. This sentiment by Trump was clear in his refusal to greet his predecessors and their wives who were not in his immediate proximity.

To put his behavior towards previous Presidents and his lack of engagement in the Christian acts of worship in his own terms, to acknowledge the presence (let alone the accomplishments) of Presidents past, or to participate in religious faith and servitude, is evidence of being “weak” — and is only appropriate for those who do not possess his “unbelievable” strength.

In clinical terms, Trump’s consistent and repetitive objective social impropriety and lack of knowledge are pervasive aspects of his immutably disordered personality — pathology that clinically indicates that Trump is psychologically unfit to serve in the position to which he has been elected and remains.
 
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