{"id":8562,"date":"2018-11-11T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T09:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2018-11-13T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:01:57","slug":"lest-we-forget-to-bash-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8562\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget to bash Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue checkmark Twitter has been alight this past 24 hours with complaints that Trump is a disgrace. Why this time, I don&#8217;t hear you ask? Apparently, rather than join Merkel and Macron at Compi\u00e8gne, the site where the 1918 Armistice was signed, Trump decided to stay in his room and watch TV because it was raining. I have no idea whether this is true or not, but given this version is being widely circulated by lefties and it happens to suit their narrative, we&#8217;ll be safer assuming it&#8217;s a load of bollocks.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons why Trump may not have attended. Was it on his agenda? The main Armistice event is today under the Arc de Triomphe, I don&#8217;t know if attendance at Compi\u00e8gne the day before is normal for a US president. Was Trump even invited? Many people posted pictures of Obama standing in the rain, albeit at a wholly different event but you&#8217;d not know that from any caption. This is known as &#8220;fake news&#8221;. I&#8217;m certain that had Trump gone along, the same people now saying &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; over and over would complain he wasn&#8217;t welcome and he did or said something inappropriate. Or his wife looked too good in her outfit, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The blue checkmarks also simpered over this Tweet, and followed up in the comments with more Trump-bashing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Unis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3we7hpKDJ\">pic.twitter.com\/a3we7hpKDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/1061293561059201024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good pic, but I fear the sycophants are missing a vital point. Angela Merkel, who was supposed to be the leader of the free world when Trump &#8220;abdicated the responsibility&#8221;, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.fr\/us\/merkel-cdu-leader-german-chancellor-2018-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barely in charge<\/a> of Germany having been rejected at the ballot box. Macron, who is fresh from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/07\/emmanuel-macron-fire-calling-nazi-collaborator-philippe-petain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">honouring<\/a> the leader of the Vichy Regime, has a popularity rating of 29%, a record low. Meanwhile, the Americans have just had a vote which, if it not exactly providing Trump with a ringing endorsement, did not show he was wildly disliked either.<\/p>\n<p>So here we have American, British, and European elites praising two deeply unpopular leaders for a cutesy photo-op while criticising, for the millionth time, a president who remains popular with the masses. Perhaps Trump was being disrespectful for not going to Compi\u00e8gne, but standing on the graves of dead soldiers to virtue-signal your dislike for him is hardly better.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only point they&#8217;ve missed, though. A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMLudes\/status\/1061450296419934208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">popular view<\/a> among the dim or dishonest is that it was Trump-style nationalism that caused WWI, whereas it was as much about competing empires as anything. One could hardly argue, as you might with WWII, that populations were whipped into war fever before the shooting began in 1914, nor that those who fought were doing so for selfish internal interests. If we&#8217;re looking for parallels between today and the pre-1914 situation on mainland Europe, we might want to look at the EU and it&#8217;s economic and political bullying of member states and Macron&#8217;s recent call for pan-European army. For the elites, though, this is all good. No doubt Archduke Ferdinand thought much the same thing when planning the tour of his subjects in the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, the sight of deeply unpopular German and French leaders cosying up, cheered on by elites who scream hysterically about an American president, does not bode well for peace in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue checkmark Twitter has been alight this past 24 hours with complaints that Trump is a disgrace. Why this time, I don&#8217;t hear you ask? 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