Donald Trump Has Been So Terrible at His Job, Even Australia Is Pissed at Us Now

They are one of our closest allies, so of course Trump found a way to destabilize that relationship in less than two weeks.
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When you read the national-security section of a major newspaper, you expect to hear about Iran's nuclear deal, or the daily horrors in Aleppo. You expect to see stories on Russian espionage and ISIS recruiting. What you don't expect to see is a story about how the relationship between the United States and its longtime ally Australia has taken a huge hit thanks to Donald Trump's being a petulant, egomaniacal asshole. And yet here we are.

The Washington Post brings us the story of President Trump's phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The call was a formality. It should have been the diplomatic equivalent of that moment you bump into an old friend at the grocery store: "How you doing? Me? I'm good. Are you still with her— Oh, it didn't work out. That's a shame. Well, it was great running into you, we should definitely hang out sometime soon." But that would have been too easy, so instead our fearless leader decided to fight with the prime minister over a totally fair question. From The Washington Post:



The agreement they were fighting about? A deal Australia had made with President Obama that stated the U.S. would take 1,250 mostly Muslim refugees that are currently being detained in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Typically, you'd expect a president to diplomatically discuss a difference of opinion, particularly with a country with which the U.S. has such close ties. But instead Trump treated Turnbull as if he were Chris Christie being sent out to pick up McDonald's. And if you think this is somehow an isolated incident and that typically Trump is more diplomatic, I would love to talk to your shrink, because I want to be on whatever cocktail of antidepressants and horse tranquilizers got you to that thought. Because no, according to the Post, this is pretty standard.


The point here isn't that Trump was mean to some innocent guy. In fact, Turnbull's policy of rejecting and treating refugees like criminals is disgusting itself, and it's a testament to President Obama that he was willing to step up and do the right thing on behalf of those refugees. No, the point here is that if Donald Trump can't even navigate the relatively still waters of foreign policy with our closest allies, then how the hell is his administration going to handle delicate situations with the countries we don't get along so well with? Like, say, with Iran after they tested ballistic missiles this week.




As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice.

Oh God, we're definitely going to war, aren't we?

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