Picture of defiant man/baby while Bolton lectures our soon to be ex allies. (Found in Japan Times)

[icymist]

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Trump gave "a long, frank rant", the official said, repeating a position he carried through the 2016 U.S. election campaign into the White House that the United States had suffered at the hands of its trading partners, with French President Emmanuel Macron pushing back on the assertion and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe chiming in.

It was a "a long litany of recriminations, somewhat bitter reports that the United States was treated unfairly," said the French official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It was a difficult time, rough, very frank."

The U.S. president did not appear to be listening during some of the trade presentations, another G7 official familiar with the meeting said.

Trump, who repeated that his tariffs are meant to protect U.S. industry and workers from unfair international competition, said he had suggested to the other G7 leaders that all trade barriers, including tariffs and subsidies, be eliminated.

https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update-4-trump-threatens-u.s.-allies-on-trade-as-he-exits-g7-summit

[icymist]

1. Post updated

[uppityperson]

2. "The U.S. president did not appear to be listening during some of the trade presentations..."???

"Some"?

[Sneederbunk]

4. Fingers in ears?

[uppityperson]

7. They weren't praising him so he paid no attention

[2naSalit]

13. Exactly......nt

[imanamerican63]

3. His(Trump) sheepish grin insults them all!

Pathetic and childish!

[politicaljunkie41910]

5. Who's going to listen to this asshole. He doesn't READ. He doesn't know anything except how to

cheat people. He's been out of the Wharton Business School longer than most of us have been on this earth, and we know he wasn't that great of a student, even then. So he can stop hanging on to that as his claim to fame. It didn't seem to help him with his 5 bankruptcies. He made his mark on the world by amassing debt and then not paying his bills. He came to be known by most people by being on a reality TV show, where they used fake contestants and fake judges to judge fake competitions, so the fake billionaire who desperately needed that TV series job to make his payroll, could tell the fake contestants, "You're Fired" .

[Garrett78]

6. Merkel and Macron try talking sense to a buffoon, while others wonder why they're bothering.

[struggle4progress]

8. You're so vain

[edbermac]

9. "Is our little Donnie going to make a doody?"

“That’s a good boy! Here’s a lollipop.”

[Different Drummer]

10. Little Donnie does that every day. At least once a day. n/t

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. Like to cram my fist in Boltons war hawk cake-hole

Another one w multiple deferments...but he knows war right? He played Risk.

[oberliner]

12. Bolton is the worst

Let's not forget who brought him into our world (Hint: It was Bush).

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Trump is out of his league.

The G7 aren't buying his BS like his base and Republicans. They aren't afraid of him. They won't be manipulated and gaslighted.