Last week the world learned what Americans have known for decades. Watch out for the Donald at photo ops.
The liar in chief made the most of his photo ops in a bizarre international tour where he embraced our least trustworthy tormentors and alienated our closest allies. He caressed glowing orbs, bowed to a Saudi prince, and elbowed a NATO partner all for the camera.
He posed like a smirking sixth grader with the Pope who looked like he smelled someone's dirty socks. Must have been the remnants of one of Donald's deals.
Trump and his staff boasted of no public protests in a country where holding up the wrong sign will get you beheaded and praised the crackdowns of a dictator who claims rape is just a method of crowd control.
While the great Cheetoh has praise for despots and dictators, he doesn't seem to get along well with democratically elected leaders of free countries. He especially doesn't like the Chancellor of Germany who has the audacity to be smarter, more popular, and female.
Once the Don got back to his own sandbox, he complained that Germany was very bad because they exported more to us than they import from us. On that single fact, he is correct.
Germany exports about $120 billion in products to us. They import about $65 billion in products from us. If you stop looking at the numbers right there, like the reality tv guy, it looks like he's right to complain.
But there's one small detail discussions of trade need to include. There are over three and a half times more people in the United States than in Germany. We have over 318 million, they have just over 81 million.
When you figure the per capita spending on each other's products, you get a completely different picture. Germans spend $802 per year on American products. Americans spend $376 on German.
In other words, individual Germans spend well over twice as much as we do on the other country's products.
One would think economists and pretend presidents would include this key factor in discussions of trade imbalances, not just small-town opinionologists.
My dad would tell me that's what I get for thinking. Come to think of it, a lot of people tell me that.
Speaking of thinking, it'll take a lot more than that to get the Trumpets to admit their man is working for Russia. But there's always the chance they'll turn on him once he's managed to overturn every single vestige of the Obama presidency.
That's all most of them are after anyway. They'd follow a looney tune conspiracy theorist to Hades to help them forget those terrible days when our president was not a white man.
A loud and dangerous Trumpet in Portland, Oregon claimed he was a patriot for harrassing two brown skinned teenagers, then attacking and killing the Americans who stood up for them.
Delusional is an easy excuse for that kind of insanity. Delusional is what we are by denying this type of terrorism isn't condoned by the twit stormer presiding over our republic.