UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump is following a detailed script as he convenes his first meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
The famously free-wheeling leader is referring to notes that are guiding him through the body’s parliamentary procedures, including which leaders to recognize and when to use the gavel afforded to the council’s president. The U.S. holds the presidency for Wednesday’s session.
Wearing an earpiece, Trump is alternating between listening to simultaneous translation as other leaders and ministers spoke and scanning the room or his prepared notes.
Bolivian leader Evo Morales launched a blistering critique of U.S. policy toward Iran as well as Trump’s immigration policies that resulted in the separation of migrant children from their parents. Trump sat stone-faced during the remarks, looking straight ahead. He thanked Morales for his remarks, before recognizing the next leader
Participation Trophy Time! It is a sad situation when the sitting President of the United States is given credit by the media for “sticking to the script”. This should be an automatic thing. He doesn’t deserve kudos or special praise for doing his job.
This has to be a revelation to the painfully insulated Trump.
Every now and then, it seems to penetrate the two inches of bone between the real world and his diseased mind that he’s in a million miles over his head.
DAMN! You beat me too it. The Dotard is in so far over his head. He is so far out of his element. He has no clue how to think for himself on this kind of stage.