It's been suggested by @vanbadham that Trump reacted as he did because he didn't realise that "Liberal" in Australia is the rightwing party.
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Whether or not that's true, however - and I bet it is; Trump is dogwhistle with language & dead ignorant of IR - this is still terrifying.
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Why? Because it means that either Trump is too arrogant to civilly negotiate with even a major ally, or he physically can't control himself.
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Trump's unrepentant racist vitriol for Mexico are well-established; his threats to the Mexican PM are horrific but still part of a pattern.
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Another source for that particularly terrifying war threat, from no lesser publication than
@TIME: http://time.com/4657474/donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-mexico-bad-hombres/ …1 reply 19 retweets 56 likes -
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But for Trump to go off at the white, male, English-speaking, right-wing leader of a historically strong ally who JUST endorsed his policy?
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That's behaviour that can't be explained or contextualised by anything other than Trump's personal derangement, ignorance and narcissism.
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For anyone still blindly operating on the naive assumption that Trump is acting with intelligent purpose? YOU CANNOT DEFEND HIM FOR THIS.
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The thing that the left has been saying all along - that Trump is a violent, bigoted bully with no diplomacy, no patience & no intelligence?
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THIS IS WHY. This is what he DOES. You didn't care before b/c it was directed at groups you hated, but it's an identical reaction EVERY TIME
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When asked by a politically like-minded ally to honour an agreement made by his predecessor, Trump didn't bargain, demur, or decline nicely.
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He flew into a tantrum, ended the phonecall, and tweeted about how "dumb" it was (suggesting he hadn't known about the deal beforehand).
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If nothing else Trump's done has convinced you of his despotism & tyranny, look at how he treats an ally who raises a topic he dislikes.
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