Haven’t seen a thread on this speech for the ages.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“I’m helping NATO, and until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me—they called me daddy. A very smart man said he’s our daddy. NATO is not there for us on Iceland. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.”
"I was with the 2 best pollsters…they said, ‘Sir, George Washington & Abraham Lincoln, if they came back and ran as president and Vice President, they couldn’t beat you.’”
“And the I guess prime minister called—a woman and she was very repetitive. She said, no, no, no…. She said, no, no, no, please, you cannot do it. Kept saying the same thing over and over. And she just rubbed me the wrong way.”
“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German” to a country that predominately speaks…German.
There are plenty more nuggets of wisdom from the great orator in this speech.
He also sometimes confused Iceland for Greenland. “I’m helping Europe, I’m helping NATO, and until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me,” Trump said.
But he did tell them—about Greenland, not Iceland—and the response from those allies has been anything but positive. In fact, they greeted Trump with near-unanimous animus.
