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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 11:44 AM Aug 2018

Remember Trump's Tweet Saying He Was Pulling Out Of The G7 Summit Agreement? US Officials Ignored It

I really think the USA is in deep trouble and the GOP Congress is silent. damn.




https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertonardelli/trump-g7-tweet


Remember Trump’s Tweet Saying He Was Pulling Out Of The G7 Summit Agreement? US Officials Ignored It

“It's like there's a reality TV president, in his own bubble, thinking he controls stuff. It's like The Truman Show.”


Posted on August 2, 2018, at 4:45 p.m. ET



LONDON — Shortly after leaving the G7 Summit in Canada in June, President Donald Trump tweeted to say he had instructed US officials not to endorse a statement he had agreed to just hours earlier with other world leaders. Trump was displeased with something Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during the summit’s closing press conference, which the president was following on TV from Air Force One.

But almost two months on, those instructions from Trump have never been acted upon, apparently ignored, two sources who were directly involved in the G7 process told BuzzFeed News.

US inaction means Trump effectively endorsed the final statement after all.

Trump had left the leaders of Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and the UK stunned and bewildered after tweeting that he’d “instructed U.S. Reps” not to endorse the G7 communique, the official name of the joint leaders’ statement that he’d signed up to in Quebec, before flying to Singapore to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In his tweets, Trump claimed that he was pulling out of the agreement because Trudeau had made "false statements" at his press conference.

Since Trump’s tweet, however, there has been no formal or official follow-up by the US on the president’s demand, the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said.

“The White House and State Dept. are actively ignoring the tweets of the president,” one of the sources said. “It's like there's a reality TV president, in his own bubble, thinking he controls stuff. It's like The Truman Show.”.....
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Posted on Fri, Aug 3rd, 2018 by Leo Vidal

Bombshell Report: Government Officials Are Ignoring Trump’s Orders

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/08/03/bombshell-report-government-officials-are-ignoring-trumps-orders.html

According to a new bombshell report in BuzzFeed Donald Trump is so incompetent at operating the U.S. government that many of his employees are ignoring him, especially when he gives apparent orders to them using Twitter.

Trump is reported to be so inept at achieving the most basic functions of his office that he has no idea what actions he needs to take through official channels. Instead, he thinks that by sending a tweet he has taken an official action, but that’s not working out for him because most of his tweets are being ignored by everyone in the government.

An example given by Buzzfeed was Trump’s recent announcement that he had decided to withdraw the United States from the joint communique agreed to by the leaders at the G7 summit in Canada in June.

At the summit he had initially signed on to the communique and told the leaders of the other countries that he was on board with it. Then, in a shock to everyone, he sent out a tweet while riding home on Air Force One, saying that he had decided to pull out because Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was mean to him.

According to Buzzfeed:.....................................

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Remember Trump's Tweet Saying He Was Pulling Out Of The G7 Summit Agreement? US Officials Ignored It (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2018 OP
Impotent, inept and inexcusable leadership. Doodley Aug 2018 #1
There's a row of colorful buttons on his desk labeled "Cancel Treaty," "Fire Somebody," etc. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #2
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Aug 2018 #3

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
2. There's a row of colorful buttons on his desk labeled "Cancel Treaty," "Fire Somebody," etc.
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 11:58 AM
Aug 2018

only the one labeled "Coke" actually works.

Actually there are two with that label, they result in different things arriving a moment later.

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