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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 06:56 PM Aug 2019

Trump is set to blow up the G-7. In so doing, he'll reveal the worst.

Source: Washington Post

Trump is set to blow up the G-7. In so doing, he’ll reveal the worst.

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
August 23 at 10:30 AM

With President Trump set to attend the Group of Seven this weekend, it’s already emerging that he has “shaken up” the schedule. Trump has called for a special meeting focused on the global economy, where he’ll tout his message about jobs and trade, while contrasting the stupendous Trump economy with Europe’s economic struggles.

In other words, Trump will proclaim his “America First” agenda a smashing success, and throw that in the faces of our European allies.

Yet behind the scenes, such bravado is a lot harder to find. The Post brings us this striking report:

Top White House advisers notified President Trump earlier this month that some internal forecasts showed that the economy could slow markedly over the next year, stopping short of a recession but complicating his path to reelection in 2020.

The private forecast, one of several delivered to Trump and described by three people familiar with the briefing, contrasts sharply with the triumphant rhetoric the president and his surrogates have repeatedly used to describe the economy.

This juxtaposition, between Trump’s planned public display at the G-7 and his advisers’ private economic terrors, is striking. It shows that Trump’s appearance will in reality demonstrate that the very nationalist agenda he will be touting is, thus far, a record of deep fraudulence and failure, covered up with lies.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/23/trump-is-set-blow-up-g-so-doing-hell-reveal-worst/
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Trump is set to blow up the G-7. In so doing, he'll reveal the worst. (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2019 OP
Deep fraudulence and failure leftieNanner Aug 2019 #1
They should make him sit alone at the kiddie table BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #2
Who is he going to shove out of the way this time ? Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #3
I have no doubt that tRUMP will do his best to reveal the worst! abqtommy Aug 2019 #4

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
2. They should make him sit alone at the kiddie table
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 08:23 PM
Aug 2019

since he just acts like a juvenile delinquent who needs to be separated from the rational grown ups.

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