Trumps Latest Insults are a Disgrace.

[On Balance]

Trump has dishonoured UK military personnel who fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan. He is saying our troops stood a little back from the front lines. What an absolute piece of sh!t he is. (Excuse my profanity, I use it infrequently bit on this occasion I cannot hold back)

This comes from a yellow bellied coward who dodged the draft for the Vietnam war five time.

What an absolute disgraceful person he is. A coward of the first order and is not fit to preside over the country he does.

[boinggazmic]

Trump has dishonoured UK military personnel who fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan. He is saying our troops stood a little back from the front lines. What an absolute piece of sh!t he is. (Excuse my profanity, I use it infrequently bit on this occasion I cannot hold back)

This comes from a yellow bellied coward who dodged the draft for the Vietnam war five time.

What an absolute disgraceful person he is. A coward of the first order and is not fit to preside over the country he does.

Yes it boils my pee..I?m ex serviceman who served alongside the yanks in the coalition in desert storm and as part of police action in Balkan conflict. I left in 98 but still was still in touch with recruits wh we helped train.sadly some have died in Iraq and Afghan.these comments are disgraceful..don?t for a second believe the American military believe his words..

[Leicesterbaggie]

Could not agree more OB. The man is just one piece of excriment. As you say, a coward who dodged being called up on many occasions and then has the nerve to say what he has about our brave military. It is about time that the world’s leaders truthfully told him what they really think of him instead of trying to pacify him. The man is a liar, a convicted felon, a coward, a mysogonist and basically a vile human being.

It is also interesting, and please, somebody correct me if I am wrong, isn’t the USA the only NATO country to ask for help against a foreign regime. The world would be a much safer and better place if his mother had a headache on the night that he was conceived!

On a completely different note, this site is still causing far too many problems.

[Dubbag]

It is also interesting, and please, somebody correct me if I am wrong, isn’t the USA the only NATO country to ask for help against a foreign regime.

Correct.
They invoked article 5 from NATO. An attack on one is an attack on all NATO members. Only time it has ever been invoked

[WBA123]

Yet the patriots in this country like Farage and Tommy Robinson love him, funny that.

[Johnny on the spot 1]

That man is complete FKin Idiot I wish that Bullet had gone through his head & out the other side in stead of his ear ,

[Omegstrat6]

The list of things Trump has done over just the past 3 weeks is pretty unfathomable but, belatedly, the American public themselves are beginning to wake up and some polls suggest an approval ratings drop to just 37%.

Seth Meyers was asked by several people why US late night talk shows continually used politics for their comedic attention and he gave the obvious reply but noted that alongside all the comedic targets (Trump falling asleep, his boasts of ace-ing cognitive tests, his increased ramblings, insane exaggerations etc) were genuine threats to democracy and global security which should be taken very seriously. Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers, Stewart and our own James O'Brien may be seen as leftist commentators but they all make the same point, which is we ignore this buffoon at our peril. With the US under this POTUS being unreliable at best, the first step is to forge tighter economic and military links with the EU alongside long time allies such as Canada and Australia. Trumps "Board of Peace" is an indication of his envisaged New World Order.

[baggieal]

Badenoch: Starmer should demand apology from Trump over Afghanistan comments.

She is right of course but Starmer is too weak to ask for an apology which of course should be forthcoming.

[WBA123]

Badenoch: Starmer should demand apology from Trump over Afghanistan comments.

She is right of course but Starmer is too weak to ask for an apology which of course should be forthcoming.

Al, we know you love Trump.

You feign it, but you do. You start sentences with 'I'm not a Trump fan, but........'

Can we finally agree that Trump in a complete imbecile. And his mate Farage is one too?

The only benefit of all this shenanigans is that Farage's popularity in this country might dip. But having said that, look at the stupidity of his voter base.

As for Starmer, I actually think he's done well here. He's competent and he's provided a measured reaction in the circumstances.

God help us if Farage, Boris or Truss were in power now.

[baggieal]

Al, we know you love Trump.

You feign it, but you do. You start sentences with 'I'm not a Trump fan, but........'

Can we finally agree that Trump in a complete imbecile. And his mate Farage is one too?

The only benefit of all this shenanigans is that Farage's popularity in this country might dip. But having said that, look at the stupidity of his voter base.

As for Starmer, I actually think he's done well here. He's competent and he's provided a measured reaction in the circumstances.

God help us if Farage, Boris or Truss were in power now.

I?m no fan 123 but don?t comment on overseas leaders when our own leader is an absolute embarrassment on the world stage. I certainly would not use the word competent in the same breathe for Starmer. You could say a competent leader would protect their own people from an invasion of illegals including terrorists and rapists ie look no further than yes Trump and the leaders of Denmark, Italy and Poland. They protect their own!

It?s irrelevant what I think of Farage but possibly more relevant to the huge support gaining traction with Reform. As with Mason - the majority will have their say at the next election. Starmer is lucky to have a poll rating in popularity of 15% now!

Council elections being cancelled left right and centre - that?s not democracy and someone is running scared. Possibly the same weak and gutless person who would not ask Trump to apologise as he clearly should! Why - because he?s a wet lettuce and weak!

[Leicesterbaggie]

I do think that our government should officially request an apology from Trump. This will not happen of course because Starmer has not got the bottle to do so and the word apology is not in Trumps vocabulary.

A question I would also like Trump to be asked is why he avoided the draft on five occasions. I know, because he is a COWARD.

[kettering_baggie]

That man is complete FKin Idiot I wish that Bullet had gone through his head & out the other side in stead of his ear ,

It possibly did, in one ear and out of the other, nothing in between to damage.

[TipperaryBaggie]

Starmer has condemned his statement but if you think that he will ring him up and demand an apology, you're living in cloud cuckoo land!

[kettering_baggie]

Nobody will take any notice of Starmer anyway, he’s an absolutely nonentity of a man, ought to be ejected from office. Trump’s comments, were of course appalling but he’ll take no notice of Starmer, just like everyone else.

[Omegstrat6]

James O'Brien had an interesting analysis of Starmer's handling of Trump. Domestically, he has lots to criticise him for (who doesnt!) but regarding Trump, he struggles to see if he could have handled the Orange One any better. It's easy for Badenoch or Davy to say they would have been far stronger in their public denouncements of Trump because they are not PM.

O'Brien borrowed the analogy of Starmer trying to ride two horses, one of which is to take a diplomatic, softer, tone in order to try and persuade Trump to climb down from his threats around Greenland or tariffs and to keep him onside about any Ukraine settlement, the other is to stand up to him on issues and begin to forge stronger ties with the EU, Canada and other long time allies as well, perhaps, as engaging more with China in order to wean ourselves off an increasingly unreliable US partner.

Starmer has been quite successful in riding that first horse, not least because of Trump's TACO inclinations but even he must surely be aware that continuing to have to attempt to try and soothe the temper tantrums of this toddler POTUS is not sustainable long term and that with Trump's propensity for changing course dependent on who has his ear last, any agreements made with him are inherently fragile at best. Ultimately, he may have to elect to ride just that second horse.

A further consideration that O'Brien raised-and he isn't the only one to have done so-is the Suez factor. The 1956 debacle demonstrated once and for all the harsh reality that Britain was no longer a world power. Yes, her recent experience of Empire and of being on the right side at the end of WW2 meant that our voice was still respected on the world stage but we had no real "hard" military might to back up any "soft power" we retained. The following decades have only decreased our power and, more recently, Trump's weakening of NATO and Brexit have left us only further isolated.

For those who say our responses to Trump, or Putin or Xi Jinping have been too weak, I sympathise, but the reality is that, alone, we ARE weak so why would any of these authoritarian leaders listen to us? We can, of course, still strive to be a voice of reason on the world stage but we have no big stick to back up any softly spoken words.

In today's world, we cannot afford to be alone either economically or militarily and closer ties with our existing allies in Europe, Canada and Australia for example surely have to be strengthened. In the light of Russian aggression and an unreliable US under Trump, we may not like the regime but it might be prudent to also strengthen economic ties with China.