Australian journalist demolishes Trump at G20: ‘biggest threat to the west’
Reporter Chris Uhlmann’s commentary tearing into American president – a man with ‘no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ – reverberates to Washington
A savage opinion of Donald Trump’s presidency that went viral was delivered by one of Australia’s most seasoned political journalists, who is well known G20 leaders’ summit to viewers of the national broadcaster for his frank opinions.
Chris Uhlmann, the political editor of the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation, described Trump as “isolated and friendless” at the G20 leaders’ summit, and said his disastrous foreign policy had “pressed fast-forward on the decline of the United States”.
Wow. A searing assessment of the President of the United States by political editor @CUhlmann of Australia's ABC. pic.twitter.com/TnfUwAPkOP
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 9, 2017
The analysis, delivered on the ABC’s political program Insiders, has been viewed thousands of times around the world, and astonished American political commentators.
Speaking on Sunday from the G20 conference in Hamburg, Uhlmann said Trump had shown “no desire and no capacity to lead the world” and was himself “the biggest threat to the values of the west”.
“He was an uneasy, lonely, awkward figure at this gathering and you got the strong sense that some of the leaders are trying to find the best way to work around him,” Uhlmann said.
“Where was the G20 statement condemning North Korea which would have put pressure on China and Russia? Other leaders expected it, they were prepared to back it, but it never came.”
I remember how these b*tches used to scream about “Leading from behind!!!” even when they knew it wasn’t true. Now that we actually have someone in the WH who is totally clueless about what the job entails and isn’t even capable of ”leading from behind” they have nothing to say. Something tells me they know Trump is a failure but will not say it because it would show they made a yuuuge mistake in voting to make him POTUS. A new Quinnipiac Poll shows that when most Americans think of Trump, the word “idiot” is the first adjective that enters their minds. Americans could, and did, think a lot of things about PBO, but they didn’t think he was an idiot.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/884065397661720576
https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/884046920607551489
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/883691043933257728
https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/883996944816885761
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/884043637943939072
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884040791353470976
But only a rich white man can say it and get away with it….
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/884059563586093056
https://twitter.com/havewhatusay/status/884054924895637505
https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/884052319578533888
NAILED HIM
Amazing, isn’t it? One of our worst problems in this country is the complacency that stems from the widespread belief that we are too big and too great and too resilient to be taken down. Folks need to think about all that has happened since Jan 20.
No lie told
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/884060027509723136