Quote Originally Posted by SithHappens View Post

I am dismayed we are giving this man a state visit in September.

This is a man found guilty of ***ually abusing someone and we are going to roll out the red carpet.
Unfortunately it’s a case of pragmatism over idealism, Sith. We are a small European country made more important via our ‘special relationship’ with the U.S. and, like it or not, the POTUS is someone we currently cannot afford to alienate.
Just as Blair had to ‘befriend’ Bush we are not in a position to go it alone.

My opinion of Trump is probably the same as yours…that he is a disreputable, dishonest, deluded and immoral narcissist who isn’t fit to hold office, but the fact is that he, somehow, is the democratically elected leader of the most powerful nation on earth and the most significant of our allies.

I’m sure his state visit will see a great many demonstrations and the reincarnation of the ‘baby Trump’ blimp, but I honestly believe that political expediency demands that our political leaders do invite and flatter him while secretly hoping that his alleged wrong doings are exposed back in the USA and that he pays the price sooner rather than later.