The Guardian reports that, “Within hours the video, posted by the Democratic frontrunner on Wednesday evening, amassed close to 2m views, and more than 21,000 retweets. By comparison, Trump’s video about his Nato trip had 1.4 million views and 14,600 retweets in the space of 12 hours.”
According to the Washington Post, “The pointed ad marks the continued fallout after Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other dignitaries were caught on camera Tuesday engaging in a brief exchange apparently about Trump that quickly spiraled into an international incident. On Wednesday, Trudeau, Macron and Johnson were forced to field questions about the candid conversation and Trump was described as ‘the scorned child on the global playground’ and ‘a sulking, brooding president’.”
As many noted, this week’s episode is not the first time Trump was openly mocked on the world stage and the irony of it all is deepened given that Trump ran for president in 2016 on the promise to return the United States to what he claimed was a previous place of greatness and admiration where nations laughing at the U.S. would no longer exist.
As Post columnist Paul Waldman writes:
“Yet now,” argued Waldman, “there is literally not a single person on Earth who gets laughed at more than Donald Trump.”
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