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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps Saudi Arabia visit was bizarre, unseemly, unethical and un-American: WaPo columnist
Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum blasted President Donald Trump and his administration on Sunday for choosing Saudi Arabia as the destination for Trumps first international trip as president.
Citing the oil-rich nations extensive record of human rights abuses, its all-powerful royal familys grip on the nations finances and its abuse of women who are forced to cover their faces, not allowed to drive and who must ask a male relative for permission to travel Applebaum took Trump and his advisers to task on a number of points.
(H)ere is a list, for the record, she said, of just a few of the ways in which President Trumps trip to Saudi Arabia was bizarre, unseemly, unethical and un-American.
Saudi Arabia was a rotten first choice, she said, of all the nations in the world the new president could visit.
The past four American presidents, two Republicans and two Democrats, made their first trips to either Mexico and Canada, countries that are close trading partners, close allies, compatible democracies and of course neighbors, she said. Trump chose, instead, to make his first presidential visit to an oligarchic kleptocracy which forces women to hide their faces and forbids them to travel without a male guardians permission.
More: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trumps-saudi-arabia-visit-was-bizarre-unseemly-unethical-and-un-american-wapo-columnist/
President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia (Screen capture)
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)sitting behind trump?
northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)Chellee
(2,102 posts)You can find pictures of her with President Obama as well when he was speaking to the Saudis.
radical noodle
(8,013 posts)I saw her translating for them a few times when it was shown on the news.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)radical noodle
(8,013 posts)that trump would keep someone who worked with the Obama administration too.
BumRushDaShow
(129,440 posts)but don't know for sure. She apparently works out of the embassy. The guy who preceded her in that position was well known and had that position for 4 Presidents as I understand.
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)sub thread
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)I had the tv on but was not actually watching and every time I passed through the tv room they were just walking and walking very slowly.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)With the lit floors.....
(I can't find a pic online, but it's posted somewhere on DU)
The weird walking and security center seemed cultish to me
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)murielm99
(30,761 posts)LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)At a terrorism monitoring facility. The place has lit floors, which adds to the eeriness of the photo.
There is a video at the link
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/21/donald-trump-orb_n_16742998.html
Pluvious
(4,315 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)You cam make out Australia at the bottom left. The little orange hand is smothering Mexico (typical), and that hook-like thing is supposed to be Alaska. I'd be more worked up over that if they hadn't given us Palin.
nuxvomica
(12,441 posts)Like it's a still from the worst video game ever.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)the reaction if that were Hillary instead of Trump. Talk about a witch hunt!!!
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)I could see the National Enquirer.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Global Opinions
Trumps bizarre and un-American visit to Saudi Arabia
By Anne Applebaum May 21 at 7:45 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/05/21/trumps-bizarre-and-un-american-visit-to-saudi-arabia/
Rhiannon12866
(205,992 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Now that that's over, I wouldn't be surprised if he just goes home.
Rhiannon12866
(205,992 posts)Maybe he was bored with real estate or golf courses or whatever - or from what I've read here, nobody would do business with him. So he decided to try something new and different, and it fulfilled his need for adulation and attention. He became addicted to the rallies. He wants it to be like that all the time, he doesn't want to be bothered with the running the country stuff. And after it became an issue, he insisted he'd give up his "business" interests, but he hasn't and nobody's talking about it anymore.
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...prophesied by Yeats in *The Second Coming*? The thought of him in the Middle East makes me feel that the poem's time has finally come...
dchill
(38,532 posts)HAB911
(8,912 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)considering we're talking Trump here. The trappings of a filthy rich absolute monarchy would be more his comfort zone than those social Democratic Europeans.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)reaching out from behind the flag over Trump's head?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Not that that narrows it down much ...
I think it's part of a creepy illustration behind him. Another hand grabbing a globe or something like that.
JHB
(37,161 posts)...and is now in Saudi royal service. Donald's furry scalp-parasite needed a massage.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Just ask the Shi'a Muslims.