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President Trump was conspicuously absent from the procession of world leaders in Paris, who had gathered to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Photograph by Ludovic Marin / AP
Maybe Macron intended his message about nationalism for Trump.
Maybe if Trump knew the meanings (plural) of "nationalist," or even if he did not know it could be a bad word, with very bad meaning, he should have explained he meant good for America, and did not mean bad for the rest of the world.
Did Trump mean he would sacrifice the world for the good of America or not? Did Trump mean White Nationalism or not?
All he had to do is say what he meant.
He is playing you, Trump supporters, he is playing you!.
But the fat man-child Ttump Tweety didn't explain on purpose because he wanted to creat turmoil and controversy.
It is simply ironic and simply Trump's fault for announcing he was a nationalist two weeks before Armistice Day!
There's no doubt in my mind that Macron has already prepared at least an outline for the speech he gave, and no doubt he planned to tell the world that nationalism led to WWI.
Most of Macron's message about nationalism relates to what started WWI and to current European nations who seem to be embracing hate anyone not a citizen of your country, mostly immigrants.
European leaders have gone "far right" to persecute immigrants, and despite the challenges immigrants bring, there are benefits from having immigrants come to your country, and castigating and preaching racist hate is the wrong reaction.
And . . . Tweety embarrassed himself, looked childish, and shamed America, tarnished America, hurt us all.
Fox News, CNN, other major media, it appears even international media got it wrong by forgetting, ignoring, or simply overlooking the fact Armistice Day recalls and leaders denounce NATIONALISM because that is what started WWI.
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Attributed to de Gaulle by Romain Gary, Life, May 9, 1969"
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle
The criticism of nationalism was NOT ABOUT TRUMP! The criticism applies to Trump, but it was NOT ABOUT TRUMP! Take a look yourself.
" . . . nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Fox News caught my attention when they did not care to heck French history on what "nationalism" meant in 1916, what it meant to Charles de Gaulle and what it means today, in 2018.
Nationalism is about ways to avoid responsibility for your nation's role in messing up the planet Earth, PERIOD!
Too many media outlets think Macron was targeting Trump. Macron was targeting what started WWI, no Trump. Merkel and macron were talking about Eurpoe, which is where everyone was standing on Armistice Day. This was not a ceremony in America, for Americans, or for Trump. This was about WWI which occurred in EUROPE!
"Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron show liberal unity on Armistice Day as alt-right movements rise across Europe"
By Julia Macfarlane Nov 11, 2018
"As Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron stood hand in hand at Compiegne just outside Paris, it was the first time German and French leaders had publicly gathered at the spot where the Armistice was agreed on a century ago.
“United,” the single word in a tweet by President Macron to describe the relationship."
The purpose of Macron and Merkel speeches during the various ceremonies for Armistice Day were about EUROPE.
"Merkel’s act of opening Germany’s borders to 1 million refugees sparked a strong reaction that helped propel the far-right Alternative for Germany into government in 2017.
The makeup of Europe’s political establishment is also undergoing a visible change.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban espouses a doctrine of ethno-nationalism, arguing for securing borders to “keep Europe Christian.”
Italy’s populist deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, who called for a census on ethnicity, is the country’s most popular politician. He has a close relationship with Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist in President Trump's administration, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Poland, the right-wing ruling Law and Justice party is led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who said migrants carry “all sorts of parasites and protozoa.”
The vice chancellor of Austria is Heinz-Christian Strache, who was detained in his youth during a torch-lit neo-Nazi rally -- a moment of “stupidity” in his own words. Yet his Freedom Party, established in the 1950s, is accused of having Nazi roots."
The likeliest targets of comments about nationalism in Macron's speech were European countries, although Trump volunteered to join that group by declaring he was a nationalist.
"Trump Completes a Shameful Trip to Paris, Just as He Needs the Global Stage"
By Robin Wright 12 Nov 2018
"In unrelenting rain, more than sixty world leaders—Presidents and Prime Ministers, kings and princes, from a third of all the nations on Earth—shared big black umbrellas as they marched together down the Champs-Élysées, in Paris, on Sunday. They gathered to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting of the First World War, and to express global unity. Donald Trump was not among them. He drove to the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in the dry comfort of his limousine. Aides cited security. The only apparent threat was from an unarmed topless activist, with the words “Fake Peacemaker” emblazoned across her chest, who tried to run near his motorcade.The President did the same thing the previous day, calling off a trip to honor the more than two thousand Americans buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, some fifty miles outside of Paris. (All told, fifty thousand Americans died in the First World War.) The White House cited foul weather. The response was fast and furious on the President’s favorite medium. Nicholas Soames, the grandson of the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament, tweeted, “They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen.” He added the hashtag “#hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry.” Michael Beschloss, the Presidential historian, tweeted a picture of President John F. Kennedy and the French President Charles de Gaulle getting soaked (without umbrellas) in Paris when they honored the war dead, in 1961. There were numerous jibes on Twitter, including one from @votevets, about whether the decision had something to do with Trump’s hair. The same day, despite the rain, the leaders of France and Germany managed to visit Compiègne—also fifty miles from Paris—where the Armistice was signed in a railway car a century ago."
This is the first time Tweety didn't want to get a look at a woman's tits.
"The next test of whether Trump can wring out a foreign-policy success will be the annual G-20 meeting of the world’s biggest economies, which will open in Buenos Aires on November 30th. Trump is scheduled to hold talks with both Putin and Xi."
Tweety will fail because he does not understand the State Department function.
"Germany's Angela Merkel Fears the World Is Regressing on Human Rights Issues"
By Patrick Donahue / Bloomberg November 11, 2018
http://time.com/5451595/germany-angela-merkel-human-rights/
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(Bloomberg) — Angela Merkel offered a bleak take on global affairs on the centennial of the pact that ended World War I.
Adding her voice to French President Emmanuel Macron, who delivered a scathing critique of creeping nationalism to mark Armistice Day, Merkel turned to an event 70 years ago — the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
That document, which has underpinned human rights agreements since 1948, would struggle to see the light of day in 2018, Merkel said at the Paris Peace Forum hosted by Macron and attended by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. She lamented a world order weighed down by growing isolationism and open conflicts."
While the US President shouts "Build that Wall!", and shuts the southern border of the United States, and spews anger, fear, hate, sometimes racist rants against all illegal immigrants, blaming Democrats needlessly, uselessly, America tramples human rights. Our President likes Saudi Arabia and Russia leaders who trample human rights!?
"Merkel drew applause at the forum — which Trump skipped — for defending the United Nations, which approved the human-rights declaration in the French capital three years after the end of World War II.
“Of course it’s beset by daily routines — they have to do that behind the ideals,” Merkel said of the world body. “But is that a reason to say that we would be better off without the United Nations? I say very clearly no. You can destroy institutions quickly, but rebuilding them is unbelievable difficult.”"
