Guest wrote:
> John, what is your take on what is going on with NATO and Trump?
> Trump says he threatened to pull out unless NATO members spent
> more money, and Macron says openly to the press that never
> happened. Who is lying and why? I can't recall a time when world
> leaders from supposedly allied countries went out of their way to
> call each other liars and generally make each other look
> bad
The name-calling is all political game-playing and totally
meaningless. If the US actually pulled out of Nato, that would be
extremely significant, but just talking about it is fatuous nonsense.
Whenever I hear the BBC call something that Trump says "shocking," I
have to laugh because even those idiots can't be so stupid as to be
shocked. Trump is always making meaningless tweets and statements
that "shock" the media because he wants to mock and ridicule the media
and control the news coverage, and he's been incredibly successful in
doing so.
The "journalists" who claim that Trump "shoots from the hip" or "has
no plan" are complete idiots. Trump actually controls those idiots to
a large extent.