Watching Trump with horror around the world
By Jon Lee Anderson
January 26, 2017
... I asked a British friend for his initial impressions ... “The real problem is it’s not just America, is it? The whole world gets Trump, whether it likes it or not” ...
... As Prime Minister Theresa May prepared for her visit to the White House this week, there was a widespread sense of embarrassment in Britain over the begging-bowl nature of her trip ...
The British will return from Washington with a little less dignity than before, but with their “special relationship” intact. Other countries are receiving more bruising treatment. Mexicans have been feeling justifiably offended by Trump for some time, but their sense of grievance has sharpened considerably since Trump’s gleeful Tuesday-night tweet that he would sign executive orders the next day to begin the construction of his long-threatened border wall ...
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