The Idiot Supremacy On the World Stage

Oh, no.

Not again.

Not Trump again?

Yes, sorry.

Look, there's a post later today about "Minnie Vans" at Disney world that is free of politics. It'll be along in a few hours.

Meanwhile...

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debacle in responding to the violence stemming from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville continues to be a thing thanks in no small part to Li’l Donnie himself. 

After his limp dick of a mea culpa on Monday that “racism is bad” on Monday which nobody really believed Trump was sincere about but if this makes this latest embarrassment go away, then whatever, Man-baby Trump walked back whatever goodwill he bought with his rant on Tuesday that doubled down on his “many sides” remarks from Saturday in what was a virtual endorsement of the alt-right white supremacist movement.

It was the latest misstep from this dumbfuck that gave the rest of the world no small amount of cause for concern. 

As American's go to sleep, we in the UK need to watch and keep #ImpeachTrump trending, for the sake of our shared history against fascism.

— Graham Webb (@DrGW0) August 16, 2017

I don't even live in the US but I feel I should support the #ImpeachTrump thing, because I'm scared too. His actions effect us all.

— Hanna Olson (@HanniPaj) August 16, 2017

In Italy we have fascist buildings but no Mussolini statue because architecture is history, statues are celebration of ideals #ImpeachTrump

— Irene Iorio (@__nene__xD) August 16, 2017

The astonishment at the president's remarks has been particularly stark in Germany — where Nazi flags and salutes have been banned since the end of World War II.

"Trump's trivializing reaction to Charlottesville is unbearable," German justice minister Heiko Maas said in a tweet. "That was anti-Semitism and racism."

Neo-Nazis: bad

Anti-Nazis: good

I learned that as a child.

It was pretty obvious.

— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) August 16, 2017

Words matter. Silence matters. We must call out hate - unambiguously - to preserve the free & tolerant society many have fought & die for. https://t.co/04rYQYGj3O

— Sam Gyimah MP (@SamGyimah) August 16, 2017

The ‘leader of the free world’ loses moral authority when he cannot call fascism by its name.

— Sam Gyimah MP (@SamGyimah) August 16, 2017

The President of the United States has just turned his face to the world to defend Nazis, fascists and racists. For shame.

— Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonMSP) August 15, 2017

Trude Simonsohn, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Frankfurt, said Trump's words "will only encourage these [far-right] groups."

She added: "I am tired of listening to Donald Trump. I can't understand why Americans elected him."

Trude Simonsohn, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Frankfurt, said Trump's words "will only encourage these [far-right] groups."

She added: "I am tired of listening to Donald Trump. I can't understand why Americans elected him."

Hi, Trude. Sorry but the answer to that is mostly because of people like this idiot.

Trump is a hero. He will never be impeached especially because of a few idiots on twitter. Trump 2020. MAGA!

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) August 16, 2017

A hero, Andrew? A hero? For fucking what? And if he should get impeached (and if there is a merciful God up there, please let him get impeached!), it won’t be “because of a few idiots on twitter”, it will be because Trump condemned himself, with his own words, his own deeds that ran counter to what America is supposed to be about.

A hero? Jesus H. Christ, really?!?! 

British Prime Minister Theresa May had this to say: "I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them. I think it is important for all those in positions of responsibility to condemn far-right views.”

The situation has also sparked renewed calls for the British prime minister to withdraw her invitation for Trump to come to the U.K. for a state visit.

In February, the British prime minister rejected a petition signed by 1.8 million people that called for Trump's proposed state visit to be scrapped because it would "cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen." 

Prime Minister May want to reconsider that decision.   

While poll numbers for Trump in the USA are low, they are abysmal in the rest of the world.   

Pew Research Center in June asked people across 37 nations whether they had confidence in the president to do the right thing on world affairs. Just 22 percent said they did, with that figure dipping far lower in countries across Europe and South America. 

And it looks like Trump has lost Clay Aiken too.   

Former “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Clay Aiken backed Hillary Clinton last year, but he also defended Donald Trump against the accusations of racism that dogged his presidential campaign. 

“I don’t think he’s a fascist. I don’t think he’s a racist,” Aiken told Fox Business last year.

Now, not so much.  Hours after Tuesday’s news conference where Trump blamed “both sides” for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aiken tweeted:

Remember all those times I defended @realDonaldTrump and believed he was not actually racist? Well... I am a f*****g dumbass. #imsorry

— Clay Aiken (@clayaiken) August 15, 2017

TBC... I’ve always thought he would be a dumpster fire as a president, and I was right about that. I just didn’t think he was racist. #wrong https://t.co/6ec0Qm0WxW

— Clay Aiken (@clayaiken) August 15, 2017

Aiken said he liked Trump even though they disagreed about politics. In 2015, Aiken told CNN that he considered Trump to be a friend, but said he’s like “that uncle, who embarrasses the hell out of you sometimes and you still love them, but damn, you wish they’d shut up.” 

And within the White House itself?  

Aides are dumbfounded by Trump’s self destructive news conference on Tuesday and how the hell they’re supposed to defend him.  

No aides had yet threatened to resign as of Wednesday morning, according to White House officials and advisers, but a number of White House staffers had private conversations on Tuesday night about how terribly the day went. 

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn is particularly pissed off. Standing near Trump for a statement about infrastructure, instead Li’l Donie fell into a rant about the culpability of the “alt-left” while calling some of the protesters at the white nationalist rally “very fine people.”

Also at the event was recently installed new  chief of staff John Kelly who was brought in to instill a sense of discipline in the Trump White house but the events on Tuesday clearly showed that whatever iswithin his power to do, controlling Trump is not one of them. Kelly stood near Trump with a pained expression. 

The same pained expression that most people in the world have while Trump is the president.     
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Later today, peace be with with a non-Trump specific post.