Dignity in all things
Remember, kids, the thing to do about criticism is to stage a huge tantrum and exact whatever kind of revenge you can come up with. That always works.
The U.K. is trying to prevent a row with Donald Trump from escalating after the president froze out the British ambassador in Washington over leaked diplomatic memos.
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The row follows the publication of diplomatic cables in the Mail on Sunday newspaper in which the ambassador called the U.S. president “inept” and “incompetent.” That prompted the White House to cancel an invitation on Monday for Darroch to attend a dinner with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the emir of Qatar, according to a U.S. official.
Yes!! Brilliant!!! So dignified and mature. Much better than simply rising above the whole thing as if it had never happened.
A U.K. statement said Britain had made clear to the Trump administration that what it called “selective leaks” didn’t reflect the “esteem” it had for its relationship with the U.S. At the same time, the government said, “we have also underlined the importance of ambassadors being able to provide honest, unvarnished assessments of the politics in their country.”
Fine, fine, but then Trump will never have them over for hamburrgerrs and ice cream ever again and they’ll be sorry so ha!
u misspelled hamberders
I’ve said this before, but how like Henry VIII Trump in colouring, little piggy eyes, mad narcissism, thin skin, volatility. Fortunately Trump doesn’t have Henry’s arbitrary powers of decapitation for those who have displeased him. Also Henry did have good taste and musical talent.
The most horrible and despised people in the UK – Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, and Piers Morgan – are all Trump bum-suckers.
Henry actually started out as an ideal Renaissance prince – intelligent, au fait with humanist learning, a patron of the arts, etc. He didn’t age well, especially once the ulcerated leg got worse and worse, but in his youth he outshone Trump bigly.
Sorry, that was a tangent. Yes. The paintings of the older Henry are reminiscent of Trump – that beady angry squint.
Trump got his own way again. Darroch has resigned, saying that his position is untenable after Boris Johnson refused to back him when asked during a leadership debate yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/kim-darroch-resigns-as-uk-ambassador-to-us-after-leaked-trump-comment
Argh!