Each day I’m a little more embarrassed about my president but today was hurtful. I know it seems a small thing but it’s Friday and the end of two very bad weeks from this administration. It’s just too much to take. People will say I’m picking but it’s the overall lack of respect for others that gets me about this administration and president in particular. I shouldn’t be surprised. They did say they hate being politically correct which I just thought was being human and decent. Oh well.
I was always told that you can tell who is a gentleman if the man holds the door open or allows the woman to walk through first or opens the car door and such. Now, I know there are some women who might argue against this type of behavior but men should still offer and not feel hurt if the woman turns him down or says for him to go first. Many women are trying to be courteous though some might take offense. Me, I say thank you. Anyway, it looks bad when a man doesn’t do these things especially in public. Case in point is our president.
You may argue against this but most men would allow their wife to enter the building before them. They would even open the door for their spouse and anyone else as a gesture of good etiquette. If you can’t treat your wife with decency then I know you won’t treat anyone else with decency but then again, anyone caught saying the things he has said is just trash I don’t care what excuse you give.
Not shaking Chancellor Merkel’s hand today was just awful but what’s worse is the posture of this man and the way he came across before the press was asked to leave. You may say this was an informal time and all is good and I will say, bollocks. BBC World tweeted a link to their story and asked about the body language. Here is a shot.
She was sitting with legs crossed and hands together. Trump was sitting lunging forward over his knees with hands pressed together. He was frowning most of the time and she had a light-hearted smile. Someone in the room asked if they would do a handshake. With no response from Trump, the chancellor asked him and was ignored. Ok…
What does this mean? Even though her legs were crossed, she was relaxed – comfortable. You could tell by her shoulders. I would add that she seemed cautious but most likely she was in her comfort posture before the public. She didn’t seem uptight but at ease. Trump was tense, rigid, frowning. In some ways, he looked fuming. He was not comfortable in the situation. When she addressed him, he would not face her and acted like she wasn’t there. That was really awful. This was more than an innocent gaffe. He looked like Mommy just told him he could not have dessert until he ate all of his vegetables. He really looked like he was pitching a temper tantrum.
The home country (the US in this situation) should make the effort to create an atmosphere comfortable for the visiting dignitary. This wasn’t happening in the room at the time but she has come to the US on several occasions to meet with the sitting president. This was not her first rodeo. So often during the debates, we are asked who won the debate. Clearly, Chancellor Merkel was in control of this room. She didn’t flaunt it. She wasn’t overbearing. But Trump behaved very poorly and it embarrasses me.
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Trump may be the POTUS, but that doesn’t make him my president. I envy your restraint in only mentioning the handshake incident. He’s been disrespectful to everyone regardless of party, not the least of which was just one more vicious lie about Obama and expecting congress to investigate and back up his lie. At least Vanilla Spice thought it was only a harmless statement and Trump didn’t really mean it. Of course he didn’t mean it when he doubled down.
😀 There is so much about him that I find revolting but his supporters are still mesmerized by his supposedly wealth and power and can’t see he’s such a hypocrite. I guess the handshake bothers me so much because he’s on the world stage and he just snubbed the leader of the free world. Plus she is a woman and I think that had more to do with it than anything. He hates women in power who are highly educated. There are just things you must do as a US president but he’s part of the boy’s club where women are only good for one thing and it’s not in the kitchen if you know what I mean.
I like the vanilla spice reference. Now there is a real clown. He and Ms Blueberry take the cake in front of the camera. Neither one is very knowledgeable and serve to mop dirty bs water around.
I could write a blog post every day and still not cover everything that gets to me in this adminstration. His supporters are the ones who bother me. So many are evangelical followers and are told Trump was sent by God and therefore can do no wrong. That he is there to save us all from the great evil. Those two evils in their minds are liberalism and Islam but they also get perks of white power of course. I’ve seen 12 presidents in my lifetime. Trump is by far the worst and most people knew it would be like this. Sigh.
I’ll admit I’m paranoid about being plagiarized on an original piece of work, but I still haven’t tweeted to the world that NSA is listening to what I tell my microwave, as Trump has informed us. On the other hand, my toaster is such a blabbermouth!
Can you believe that none of our intelligence agencies and not even GCHQ will admit to surveillance on Trump? Now he’ll have to clean out all those agencies from the bottom up and replace them with his own staffing picks who know how to say “Yes, Mr. Trump”.
Scary times. I don’t know if he is monitored by the NSA from here but I’ve been concerned that’s what will happen – that he’ll replace everyone with “yes men.” Each day is more shocking or rather he and his administration are more shocking. I never knew he would be such an utter imbecile in all things. And people actually believe he is saving the country money…. lol. Can they be any more willfully blind? I don’t think so.