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Boris Johnson has canceled his planned trip to the White House after Trump slammed the phone down

TU Curmudgeon said:
So, since Mr. Trump has an income of around $434 million in 2018 that means that the US has a "socialist government" does it?

PS - Mr. Saunders reported an income of around $560,000 in 2019, so I guess that that means that he isn't as big a "socialist" as Mr. Trump is - right?
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Trump is a businessman. Not sure what your point is? Are you?
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From Business Insider

Boris Johnson has canceled his planned trip to the White House after Trump slammed the phone down on him in a moment of 'apoplectic' fury
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has canceled a trip to the US planned for next month after a furious phone call from President Donald Trump in which Trump slammed down the phone on the prime minister.

Johnson had been due to visit Washington last month but repeatedly delayed the trip after a series of rows with the president over Iran, Huawei, and a rejected request by the prime minister to extradite the wife of a US diplomat.

The disagreements culminated in a phone call last month in which Trump hung up on Johnson, according to officials with knowledge of the conversation.

Johnson has now canceled his trip altogether, and is not planning on visiting the country until the G7 summit in June.

A Downing Street source confirmed that the trip had been cancelled due to fears of further clashes with the president.

COMMENT:-

Is Mr. Trump on the verge of pushing America's most powerful and reliable (non-dictatorial) ally off the bandwagon?
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So, Johnson cancels but somehow it's Trump's fault? Poor widdle Boris, that mean old Trumpie hung up on him.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
Absolutely, why everyone knows that Mr. Johnson did NOT cancel his trip to the US - right?
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There is no source backing up any claim why the trip was canceled. If you claim otherwise, name the source. "Somebody said" is nothing.
 
WillyPete said:
How is threatening to end military cooperation going to improve that dynamic?

If the Chinese provided the first wedge, didn't Trump just drive in the second one?
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There cannot be a real end to military cooperation. There is no military outside of the U.S. that has the power to face possible future enemies. They don't have any other valid allies of military power worth mentioning.

The reality is, the U.S. has been footing the bill for half the world's national security for over 50 years now.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From Business Insider
Boris Johnson has canceled his planned trip to the White House after Trump slammed the phone down on him in a moment of 'apoplectic' fury
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has canceled a trip to the US planned for next month after a furious phone call from President Donald Trump in which Trump slammed down the phone on the prime minister.
Johnson had been due to visit Washington last month but repeatedly delayed the trip after a series of rows with the president over Iran, Huawei, and a rejected request by the prime minister to extradite the wife of a US diplomat.
The disagreements culminated in a phone call last month in which Trump hung up on Johnson, according to officials with knowledge of the conversation.
Johnson has now canceled his trip altogether, and is not planning on visiting the country until the G7 summit in June.
A Downing Street source confirmed that the trip had been cancelled due to fears of further clashes with the president.
COMMENT:-
Is Mr. Trump on the verge of pushing America's most powerful and reliable (non-dictatorial) ally off the bandwagon?
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Sounds like the premise of an SNL cold open
 
Simon W. Moon said:
Sounds like the premise of an SNL cold open
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As an old friend of mine once said "A Comic gets you to laugh at the funny things a government does. A Humorist gets you to laugh at the government. Comics are tolerated but Humorists are dangerous.".

Satirists are just more subtly dangerous Humorists.
 
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