Charles Pierce Tweet: We all now know the Int'l Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here Signal.

[kpete]

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Link to tweet

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/g29343536/trump-meltdown-finland-president-photos/?slide=1

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, 😂😂😂

[kentuck]

2. Perhaps we should send some flowers to the Finland Embassy?

With an apology for the inappropriate and batshit crazy performance by Mr Trump.

[TryLogic]

23. The president of Finland and the people of Finland absolutely do need an official apology.

From the sane people of the USA.

[bdamomma]

37. All this crap

tRump does reflect on us, meaning we have eradicate these thugs.

[The Genealogist]

3. Perhaps someone can make a sort of collage of pictures of world leaders

Taken during meetings with Trump. So many of them look like they are begging for someone to get them away from grave danger. The pleading in the eyes is heartbreakimg.

[Layzeebeaver]

4. Please

Can someone please make this a reality. Perhaps a burns style photo collage with yakkety sax as the sound track.

[friend of m and j]

36. One of the videos of President of Ukraine and Trump captured the same look by Pres. Zelensky

of Ukraine. Trump has his hands our in front of him and is running his mouth, Zelensky is leaning back in his chair, kind of slumped to one side with his eyes rolled to the side at Trump with the expression on his face speaking very loudly "this guy is crazy".

that was my impression the first time I saw that video and the next time I saw it I got a screen capture of the scene.

I don't know how to post a photo on DU or I would have posted it.

[lunatica]

41. I upload photos and emojis to an account on Photobucket

Then I copy and paste into my comments

But I also do it with videos and picture on the internet. Same routine. Copy and paste.

You can also look for something on YouTube and you can copy and paste the url.

[friend of m and j]

45. Thanks Lunatica.

[meadowlander]

42. This one?

Or this one?

[friend of m and j]

44. Meadowlander , thanks for posting the picture. that is the one where it looked to me like the Pres

Ukraine was thinking "this fool is crazy"

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Maybe people have humored him his entire life

because they can't stand the abuse and insanity anymore?

[Texin]

22. Absolutely. Without a doubt. He's a bully and was a big fish in a small private pond

his entire life. His "organization" allowed him to act and believe he was the big cheese making all the decisions and his family underlings allowed him to act like a 70ish year-old potentate throughout. He's been fluffed and placated the way incorrigible two year olds are by the adult nannies hired by their wealthy parents. He's now in the biggest pond imaginable and he's drowning (and has been) before all the eyes of the world to see. What kills me, though, is the fact that were not just a few people that believed that when he became POTUS he'd somehow change. He didn't because he can't. He is what he is and that's all that he is. He is in a constant state of agitation and growing because he's out of his depth and he can't find bottom.

[BigmanPigman]

32. I still can't watch Van Jones since

all I remember is when he said, "I think he is finally being presidential" when he first addressed the nation in State of the Union speech 2017. He isn't a very good judge of character.

[CatWoman]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. Do people not understand that when things like this happen

they need to get up and leave and not lend legitimacy to it? Screw convention and protocol. You don't tolerate pathological behaviour, because if you do, you just encourage greater extremes.

[mikeysnot]

19. If only the media did this back

when he went on about rapists, and mocking the handicapped.

We would not be in this situation.

[colsohlibgal]

8. And Yet

30 some percent think all this is just fine and that is troubling.

It appears that finally he may go down but if he does what do his loyal crazies do?

[calimary]

9. The look on his face while this bloated overgrown brat-child throws another shit fit.

Gotta say - these are some utterly mind blowing times.

[oasis]

10. "Beam me up, Scottie".

[smirkymonkey]

11. Poor bastard, he's wishing he was ANYWHERE else but there right about then.

How many times have we seen that look on the faces of foreign leaders?

[Hortensis]

24. :) 40 minutes of it must have been a bit much, but he'll be

telling this anecdote, in cleverly abbreviated version, the rest of his life. It'll no doubt enliven a chapter in his memoirs as well. The Trump era may be very short but is creating very vibrant memories.

[gristy]

12. nytimes article on this posted just now

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/politics/trump-press-conferences.html

For Finland’s President and Other Guests of Trump, Stoicism Is Key
A placid face and a willingness to expect the unexpected has become the price of admission for any foreign ally who hopes for a productive audience with President Trump.

WASHINGTON — An awkward handshake is really the least of their worries.

As President Trump continues to rage against impeachment — and the Democrats and whistle-blower he holds responsible for bringing it about — visiting world leaders are encountering a different kind of diplomatic mission.

It includes a welcome ceremony, a meeting with Mr. Trump and an invitation to sit stone-faced for an indeterminate amount of time on live television as the president accuses people of treason, lies and corruption. And sometimes the session is reprised a little later in a formal news conference.

That was what happened on Wednesday when President Sauli Niinisto of Finland became the latest foreign leader to strike a straight-lipped contrast to Mr. Trump as Mr. Trump defended himself and attacked his adversaries. Not once but twice.

more at link

[gristy]

16. And WaPo too

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/03/stephen-colbert-trump-finnish-president-meme/

‘Has anyone checked in on the president of Finland?’: Trump’s ‘off the rails’ performance turned a foreign leader into a meme

As the threat of impeachment continued to loom over President Trump on Wednesday, Seth Meyers aimed to shed light on the day’s biggest question: “How is the president handling all this emotionally?”

“What’s his state of mind?” the NBC host asked Wednesday night. “How’s he holding up?”

Luckily, Meyers’s fellow late-night comics had answers.

“Donald Trump is clearly losing it,” Stephen Colbert said on his CBS show.

“The president is absolutely melting down,” opined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel.

The hosts were all reacting to what Meyers called a “deeply off the rails” performance by Trump, whose frustrations with House Democrats, a whistleblower’s complaint and the media were on full display as he hosted Finnish President Sauli Niinistö at the White House on Wednesday. But while Trump tangled with reporters and lashed out at his enemies, sparking the trending hashtag “#TrumpMeltdown,” Niinistö’s alternating expressions of surprise and discomfort captivated social media users, who swiftly transformed the foreign leader into the latest meme.

more at link, including tweets

[NJCher]

13. first laugh of the day

goes to you, kpete, for this hilarious find.

Then I snipped it and sent it all over the place to my friends.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. Check please!

[world wide wally]

15. How can the idiot wake up today and not feel humiliated?

[sarge43]

18. If he could feel humiliated, he wouldn't be a narcissist ... or an idiot. n/t

[Scarsdale]

20. It is easy for tRump to wake up

and feel victimized and never feel humiliated. He just knows he is the very best at whatever he does, surely we all know THAT by now? What a disgusting performance in front of a foreign leader. The entire world knows now that tRump is unhinged. They suspected it before, but these last few days, he is amplifying the crazy. I hope that when he is done, he takes Pence, Mother, Rudy, Barr, Pompeo (and his jockstrap) plus all the enablers in the gop. Then we will not have to tolerate Beavis, Butthead and Nipples all over T.V. defending daddy. We can have a celebration rivaling July 4th.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. He never reads or sees any kind of critical

assessment or commentary on his behavior.

Does Fox ever suggest that any of these rants are wrong or inappropriate? I honestly have no idea, because I don't watch Fox, nor any other broadcast news for the most part, as I don't own a TV and watch on line.

As others have already pointed out, no one around him has ever stood up to him or even given him constructive criticism his entire life.

[world wide wally]

28. I wouldn't think he would even need anyone to say it.

He should just know it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. For anyone not a narcissist that would be true.

But for him, no one and nothing is fully real besides himself and how he perceives everything. When he does become aware of criticism he goes off as we've seen over and over again. He would never experience that kind of shame over his behavior. He's simply not capable of it. Toddlers are like that as they haven't yet developed that kind of awareness that they are not the center of everything. That's why he'd invariably likened to a toddler.

[Nitram]

17. LOL Sir, you mock me!

[mwb970]

21. "Why do I have to sit here next to this idiot?"

[PatrickforO]

25. Oh that's funny!

He looks pretty ill at ease.

[yellowcanine]

26. Priceless.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. Finnland, we're sorry!

Well, the somewhat sane majority, at least.

[LudwigPastorius]

31. I think it's more the "I can't believe you guys elected this crazy motherfucker" look.

[Cha]

33. LOL!

[Mr. Ected]

34. Would almost be LOL funny if he didn't also carry the nuclear football

We can't forget that our stature in the international community has allowed us privileges that wouldn't be afforded to others. We're now in the hands of a madman bent on an alliance with our enemies that places our allies in mortal danger.

[bdamomma]

35. That poor President

from Finland, how can they meet with that POS.

[colsohlibgal]

38. Thanks Trumpsters

What a total embarrassment this dumb evil Doofus is, if he gets to run in 2020 I hope and think he may lose worse than McGovern did to Tricky Dick.

He is so mean and incompetent that his support from GOP TV also known as Fox News is in flux.

I hope sincerely we can get past this horrible time period and some sense of normalcy will come back. But that occurring is no slam dunk.

[live love laugh]

39. Got it 👍🏾 🤣🤣🤣

[Blue Owl]

40. tRump looks like he's sitting (or shitting) upon his golden toilet

n/t

[NCjack]

43. President Niinisto will soon return to Finland, and we won't. We are stuck in

a living hell with Trump.