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Greg Evans
Jun 25, 2020
On Wednesday, Donald Trump hosted the first visit of a foreign leader to the White House since the pandemic began, when he played host to president Andrzej Duda of Poland.
For the most part, this was nowhere near as unhinged as his recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as Trump tried to play statesman in front of Duda and touted trade agreements between the two nations.
It wasn't long before the veil slipped and Trump began to take shots at, of all organisations, NATO, who he hasn't criticised for quite some time. According to the president NATO are 'deliquent' because of some confusing explanation that he gave about payments, adding that Poland is one of only eight countries that actually pays the amount that they are supposed to.
Trump begins his news conference with Polish President Duda by taking shots at unnamed NATO members that he falsely… https://t.co/Wk4QnME0wv— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593028376
Trump then went on to praise Poland's efforts to safeguard it's borders and added, without irony, that he was against foreign extortion, despite the fact that he was impeached for trying to extort Ukraine.
Trump, who was impeached for trying to extort Ukraine, with a straight faces denounces "foreign extortion" https://t.co/PU3e6bdhhY— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593028606
Almost without any sort of prompt, Trump then swiftly moved on to criticising Germany, Poland's neighbour, because the country has decided to purchase energy from Russia before quickly returning to praise Poland.
"I think the people of Germany are very unhappy about it. I have many friends from Germany" -- Trump is using this… https://t.co/V1RnCFwLqk— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593029506
Back to Russia, Trump falsely claims that Barack Obama and Joe Biden were responsible for the Russian invasion of the Crimea area of Ukraine, an ongoing conflict that has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
Trump does Putin's bidding by blaming Obama and Joe Biden for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014 https://t.co/MvYiK7W62Z— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593029621
Next, Trump was asked about a police reform bill which had failed to pass in the Senate after Democrats blocked it, criticising the legislation as 'inadequate' as reported by CNN. In response, this is what the president gave a rambling answer where he proceeded to criticise the Democrats and claimed that cities that they run have a worst crime rate than countries like Honduras and Afghanistan.
Trump's word salad on cop support for cop reform bill: "They want it very much to happen themselves. Because there… https://t.co/NOy5CDexrd— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593029967
Perhaps the most outrageous thing that Trump said in the entire press conference was that the anti-racist protesters who have torn down statues of Confederate generals across the United States are now targetting statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Jesus Christ.
Trump on protesters who are removing monuments: "Now they're looking at Jesus Christ. They're looking at George Was… https://t.co/2IYvHa0RD5— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593030086
The press conference was then brought to an abrupt end by Trump as he walked away for a question that was shouted at him about the coronavirus deaths that he has overseen since he has been in office.
Trump ignores a shouted question about if he accepts any responsibility for the 123,000 US coronavirus deaths as th… https://t.co/xiN85lJaSr— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1593030443
Nothing like a rambling Trump press conference to demonstrate the world is slowly retuning to normal...
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