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I have to say, that is quite funny.

Being from the US myself, I've never been much of a Trump supporter. I've sided with him for some things, and when he was elected, I wasn't as distraught as some of my friends seemed to be. Since this January, I have heard some pretty hilarious stuff on the news. I'm not protesting or anything, because I know it probably will not get too out of hand - but I sure am laughing.

An example of this is that video. Even if he doesn't like her, it is common courtesy to shake the hand of the world leader sitting next to you in YOUR White House. I get it if he didn't shake hands with someone when he wasn't President, but he has to realize that people are watching his every single move as President - even shaking hands.
Yeah, me too, he´s more wild-card status than anything to me, but scenes like this just go on to prove, he has some issues, overall it was a really bizarre moment and it made me feel like trump was suddently starting to act like a jojo character (AKA Funny Valentine).:gwah
 

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Yeah, me too, he´s more wild-card status than anything to me, but scenes like this just go on to prove, he has some issues, overall it was a really bizarre moment and it made me feel like trump was suddently starting to act like a jojo character (AKA Funny Valentine).:gwah
Trump's Bizarre Adventures. I think those memes and videos are even a thing.

Not sure about the handshake part, was he trying to make a statement or pretended not to notice? Either way not too big a deal, though pretty hilarious.
 

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Trump's Bizarre Adventures. I think those memes and videos are even a thing.

Not sure about the handshake part, was he trying to make a statement or pretended not to notice? Either way not too big a deal, though pretty hilarious.
They are and Pepe the Frog is a Stand!:XD

I found it weird in the sense that he was going on beforehand on how both Merkel and him had something in "common, perhaps" (related to Obama´s wiretapping), which is why him not shaking hands at the end sounds bizarre, my guess there were some issues in the conversation between the two regarding most likely Merkel´s globalist views and Trump´s still no biggie, this isnt something unexpected for Trump to do, but certainly bizarre:verily.
 

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An example of this is that video. Even if he doesn't like her, it is common courtesy to shake the hand of the world leader sitting next to you in YOUR White House. I get it if he didn't shake hands with someone when he wasn't President, but he has to realize that people are watching his every single move as President - even shaking hands.
U got it the wrong way round.
He knows very well people are watching, that is why he didnt shake hands.

He shook hands with her when she left the car, but he refused to do it for the big picture, probably because he didnt want to be shown to be too friendly with merkel.
 

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U got it the wrong way round.
He knows very well people are watching, that is why he didnt shake hands.

He shook hands with her when she left the car, but he refused to do it for the big picture, probably because he didnt want to be shown to be too friendly with merkel.
Given this twitter quote he wasn't really friendly to her to begin with:
Ofc who knows if this is true but then again I could totally imagine Trump acting like that just to spite her.
 

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So Trump is being investigated on his Russian connection...
 

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The more I look into all of this, the more I can't help but wonder on to the extent of trump's incompetence. This while thing is completely asinine, trump literally has no idea of what he is doing.

First we have trump talking about the white house leaks. Which he himself confirmed are extremely real. However a significant number of those leaks talk about strife between cabinet members and almost crippling incompetence. Basically, trump just confirmed his own incompetence.

The we have the trump bit about obama... Which basically brought about today's hearing. And now it is public knowledge that the FBI is indeed investigating trump over connections to russia. Which is bound to hurt his administration at least until it's over assuming of course it concludes that there isn't enough evidence to charge him with. Any other result.... Damn. Granted it does not seem like there is solid proof against trump. They are still talking about circumstantial evidence and trump's staff actively hiding their russian's connections. However trump shouldn't rest easy just because of that. Just because the FBI doesn't find the proof they are looking for doesn't mean that their findings and ultimate take on the matter won't hurt his administration more. Even if trump does not get indicted for anything the investigation could continue to haunt him for years. As happened with good old hillary....

And then the bit said about obama. You have the committee basically complaining that obama was too lenient on russia and ended up enabling putin. Go figure. If their perspective on this is right, imagine russia under trump whose policy in regards to russia seems to be specifically to enable them.
 

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What would happen if both Trump and Pence are in this and got removed?
Is there any protocol?
 

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What would happen if both Trump and Pence are in this and got removed?
Is there any protocol?
There is a line of succession.

President
Vice-President
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General OR Secretary of the Interior
Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, or Labor
Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, or Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veteran Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security

No worries, the country is prepared.
 

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Which would basically mean we'd have to deal with a Fanatic (Mike Pence), and a Rat (Paul Ryan). Wonderful, ain't it? <_>
 

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Which would basically mean we'd have to deal with a Fanatic (Mike Pence), and a Rat (Paul Ryan). Wonderful, ain't it? <_>
Fanatic? Where did you got that from???
 

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Fanatic? Where did you got that from???
I'm not sure about fanatic, but I do know he is a homophobe - wouldn't want him to be my president; even over Trump.

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Oh and also this thread should probably be renamed to "US Politics" because that is what it has become, and the "European Politics" and "African Politics" would look uniform with this thread being renamed as well. Just a suggestion ;).
 

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I'm not sure about fanatic, but I do know he is a homophobe - wouldn't want him to be my president; even over Trump.

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Oh and also this thread should probably be renamed to "US Politics" because that is what it has become, and the "European Politics" and "African Politics" would look uniform with this thread being renamed as well. Just a suggestion ;).
Well, the situation here is that you would be trading trump for a completely generic republican. At this point, I can almost comfortably say that is an improvement. Besides, all republicans are hopeless fanatics. Their views on economics do not fall within economist consensus at large, they reject science... their position on net neutrality is objectively stupid and at odds with most of the industry (except of course, comcast. And of course, they write of academia as a whole with "liberal bias". It's a party that outright rejects knowledge at their convenience.
 

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Well, the situation here is that you would be trading trump for a completely generic republican. At this point, I can almost comfortably say that is an improvement. Besides, all republicans are hopeless fanatics. Their views on economics do not fall within economist consensus at large, they reject science... their position on net neutrality is objectively stupid and at odds with most of the industry (except of course, comcast. And of course, they write of academia as a whole with "liberal bias". It's a party that outright rejects knowledge at their convenience.
I dont know pence sounds weak for presidential material, right now if he got a few more time as vice president it would be a good thing, plus he wont know what to do about obamacare except repealing.
 

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I dont know pence sounds weak for presidential material, right now if he got a few more time as vice president it would be a good thing, plus he wont know what to do about obamacare except repealing.
It is not like Trump knows anything about anything.
 

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It is not like Trump knows anything about anything.
Yeah but Pence still needs to put some work before he´s put as POTUS, he needs to get how do I put it? More of a presence by himself, he needs to build on that.
 

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Yeah but Pence still needs to put some work before he´s put as POTUS, he needs to get how do I put it? More of a presence by himself, he needs to build on that.
None of these terrible people SHOULD be Potus, but trump is one of the worst possible choices after ppl like betsy devos.
 

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None of these terrible people SHOULD be Potus, but trump is one of the worst possible choices after ppl like betsy devos.
Betsy DeVos is waaaay down on the list. I doubt that, if anything were to happen, she would ever become POTUS.
 

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I dont know pence sounds weak for presidential material, right now if he got a few more time as vice president it would be a good thing, plus he wont know what to do about obamacare except repealing.
Well, pence's only real merit is how presidential "he looks" so far. Remember the VP debate? Pence lied through his teeth about trump and yet the only comments about it was how presidential he looked.... I am not so sure of what more time as VP would do for pence to be honest. As far as republicans pence is probably their idea of a perfect president. As for repealing obamacare, no republican really knows what to do about it. Just look at their current situation with the party... Trump during his campaign basically offered universal health care. And in the past few weeks he went ahead threw his people under the bus and is more or less behind ryan's plan. And the moment the plan got out the party basically shattered. You have the faction that thinks trumpcare is too socialist, then the faction that thinks it is merely a watered down obamacare, then the faction that does not want to see 20 million people lose health care. And of course, ryan appearing on tv telling people with a straight face that he does not actually care about all those people loosing health care coverage and that that is even a good thing. No republican knows what to do about health care. Not 3 weeks ago trump said "nobody knew healthcare was so complicated". If trump, the absolute leader of the party does not know health care is complicated, let alone anything about it, what hope is there for the suckers that he leads? Fact is, republicans in general do not know anything nor care about anything nor even care about knowing about health care. Republicans are the only major party of any developed nation to whom "universal health care" is an intrinsically bad thing. Which actually explains why the party knows and cares so little about health care as a whole. Universal health care for them is intrinsically evil.
 

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Yeah but Pence still needs to put some work before he´s put as POTUS, he needs to get how do I put it? More of a presence by himself, he needs to build on that.
Why do you care more about style over substance? Regardless of what you think of Pence's views, he at least has experience in the executive branch of government. Trump has zilch.
 
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