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Trump Snubbed
Boy, the Big Orange is making the US look bad at the G20 summit.
I heard the speech he gave was pretty good.
I don’t know about that, but the Polish first lady refused to shake his hand.
That’s been debunked. She said she did shake his hand, it just wasn’t shown on camera.
They made her say that.
So she’s brave enough to snub him in public but not brave enough not to lie about it.
Look here, in USA Today, she obviously snubs him.
Hmmm. Well, the angle is bad, but she starts out on the other side of her husband then starts walking toward Melania. It appears that she’s looking at Mrs. Trump’s dress. I can see why, it is a bit loud. No wonder she didn’t see Trump’s hand.
It looks like a snub to me, you know, “Here’s my hand…psyche! I was just going to scratch my stomach.”
So Agata Kornhauser-Duda is a teen-aged boy.
Who?
That clip gets cut off pretty quickly. Let’s see if there’s any more to that video. Yahoo News appears to have the same clip. MSN just shows the same three seconds. What about Newsweek. Yea, that’s a lot longer. Okay, she shakes Mrs. Trump’s hand and…Wait! What was that?
What?
Watch at about 00:42…See, there’s a jump-cut.
Probably just a glitch; it looked pretty windy out there.
Odd that that’s the only one in the video. Oh, look here. Snopes has an article about it. Let’s see…Agata shakes Melania’s hand and then immediately turns and shakes the Donald’s hand. I wonder why FakeNewsWeek didn’t show that part.
Yeah, but the first part is pretty obviously a snub. Frump reached out to shake her hand and she completely ignored him.
Or didn’t see him. Well at least the Donald seemed to get along with her husband. Do you think Trump’s going to reverse Obama’s policy on the ABM’s in Poland?
Uh..I dunno.
What do you think about the dust-up between Andrzej Duda and Angela Merkel over immigration?
I can’t say.
How about the Kornholer-Schmuck treaty? Do you think that will resolve that peat dispute between Poland and East Fillory?
I haven’t heard about it.
Anyway, that dress of Melania’s is pretty weird.
It sure is.
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Awesome snark! Thanks, I needed that.
This is the CNN.com front page this morning. The USA is doomed. DOOMED, I tells ya!
What those Leftists don’t know is, we don’t WANT Trump to get along famously with those Socialists/Communists at all. America hated the way Obama gave in to their every whim. We want a President who stands up for the USA, not the EU!
I loved that dress – she nails it on fashion – always looks modern, but classy. There’s a headline on Drudge where Trump refused to wear the G20 pin. In the group photo, he’s the only world leader not wearing one, and wearing the American flag instead – I love it. Then Melania was paired with Putin at dinner – apparently he looked charmed – another thumb in the lunatic media’s eye. Ivanka had some very good moments too – unrolling a new program for women entrepreneurs – and the long meeting Trump had with Putin – over 4 times as long as planned – how could they think he could only have 30 minutes after all the malarkey he’s had to put up with? So far, it’s been an out of the park visit. Bonus: Poland loved Trump.
PS – think of the years of dowdy pantsuits that we dodged thanks to the election!
So funny, Jose!
From where I sit, anything Melania wears looks mighty darn good. I haven’t quite figured out why that is yet. Maybe she has great designers. What d’ya think, @josepluma?
The Fake News hasn’t quite figured out that shaking the Mrs’s hand first is actually polite etiquette. But what would they know about that?
If he walked on water, the headline would be TRUMP CAN’T SWIM
I decided to make my own headline like the one I posted above, so I searched through a few pictures (just like CNN does) until I found one that fits the story I wanted to write. Here it is.
Very cute piece. I agree with others on Melania. She nailed the dress. The First Lady is certainly gorgeous!
Remember when Trump won the election and all the fake news wrote stories about how this or that “famous” designer wouldn’t make clothes for Melania? Ha, ha, ha! The quickest way for a designer to become famous…put a dress on Melania.
Or “Water Resists Trump”.
Must have the same designer.
I admit I don’t really buy Dolce and Gabbana, but I considered getting the super expensive tshirt to reward a fashion company that refused to be bullied. And I’m not even a big Trump fan!
(PS. I support people not selling their designs to Mrs. Trump as a matter of free speech/free association, but I think it’s truly silly. D & G are much smarter to be a favorite designer of hers. She’s the First Lady. And a very pretty one at that.)
The world’s most interesting newspaper (UK’s Daily Mail) has a fashion feature where they showcase famous ladies’ looks and tell the reader where she can find the same or similar.
Both Ivanka and Melania appear there regularly (along with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Gig Hadid, Bella Thorne, etc.)
I wish I could like this a hundred times. Priceless!
When I saw the video of the snub, Mr. Trump & Mr. Poland were shaking and it seemed that Mrs. Poland flanked on the outside to greet Mrs. Trump.
That was my interpretation.
I have to say @cbtoderakamamatoad, I did not know that. I’m a Costco model myself, Haven’t you seen me on the runway?
Costco. Sniff. I only wear Tar-jay (spelled “Target,” for those not in the know…).
I saw the video and obviously she felt compelled to shake Melania’s hand first, who knows, – a Polish custom. However the fact Poland is on the EU “bad boy” list for not accepting many immigrants/refugees reminds me of another factoid I heard, and not from CNN – how many terrorist attacks has Poland received – answer – ZERO – gee, they’re smarter than I was led to believe.
Yeah, Mao Tse-tung.
Missed you, RightAngles! Hope your time away was spectacular!
Geez, that thing Hillary is wearing there looks like something out of a remake of ‘1984’ or maybe ‘Blade Runner’. Either that, or she made it out of an old horse blanket.
I was originally going to have the guys discuss all the stupid memes coming out of the G-20 (i.e. TRUMP ALONE!, IVANKA SITTING IN A CHAIR!!, MELANIA WEARING A CAPE!!! and etc.), but it would have been way too long. Just for research, I tried to find a complete version of the incident and literally none of the so-called major news networks showed the complete video. USA Today, CNN, Yahoo and MSN all appear to be using the same 3-second clip that cuts off after Agata Kornhauser-Duda shakes Melania Trump’s hand. But the most egregious example is Newsweek. If you follow the link to that page, you will see a video at the top showing the same three seconds. About halfway down the page is a much longer clip purporting to show the whole thing. At about the 00:42 mark, there is a quick cut from when Mrs. Kornhauser-Duda turns away from Mealnia and toward Mr. Trump to when she turns away from him. In other words, the actual handshake was completely elided. Also, nowhere in the text is it mentioned that she actually shook the President’s hand. Someone needs to get fired over this one.
Newsweek has “corrected” the story now. The headline still states it was a “Hilariously Awkward Exchange”, while the “correction” states it was a “mildly awkward and humorously relatable exchange.”
I tweeted POTUS and called them out on it. Newsweek has always been run by scum.
The Express in the U.K. is still reporting it as a snub:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/825615/Donald-Trump-news-Polish-first-lady-snubs-handshake-Donald-Trump-speech-in-Poland
Thank you for missing me!
Am glad that you’re back!
FakeNewsweek still does not say that she actually shook his hand, and still has the video up that cuts out the actual handshake.