patrick.net

Not necessarily, but Trump himself is the most unskilled president since GW Bush.

On that same note, the Trump handling of the current SaudiA versus Qatar crisis reminds me of the gigantic blunder that the Poppy Bush administration made with respect to being so vague about their opinion on the Iraq/Kuwait border conflict that Saddam Hussein thought he had just gotten the green light to invade Kuwait in 1990!

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Glaspie#Meetings_with_Saddam_Hussein

One version of the transcript has Glaspie saying:
“ We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business, but when this happens in the context of your threats against Kuwait, then it would be reasonable for us to be concerned. For this reason, I have received an instruction to ask you, in the spirit of friendship — not confrontation — regarding your intentions: Why are your troops massed so very close to Kuwait's borders? ”

Later the transcript has Glaspie saying:
“ We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.

Another version of the transcript (the one published in The New York Times on 23 September 1990) has Glaspie saying:
“ But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America. James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction. We hope you can solve this problem using any suitable methods via Klibi (Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League) or via President Mubarak. All that we hope is that these issues are solved quickly. ”

When these purported transcripts were made public, Glaspie was accused of having given tacit approval for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which took place on August 2, 1990. It was argued that Glaspie's statements that "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts" and that "the Kuwait issue is not associated with America" were interpreted by Saddam as giving free rein to handle his disputes with Kuwait as he saw fit. It was also argued that Saddam would not have invaded Kuwait had he been given an explicit warning that such an invasion would be met with force by the United States.[2][3] Journalist Edward Mortimer wrote in the New York Review of Books in November 1990:
“ It seems far more likely that Saddam Hussein went ahead with the invasion because he believed the US would not react with anything more than verbal condemnation. That was an inference he could well have drawn from his meeting with US Ambassador April Glaspie on July 25, and from statements by State Department officials in Washington at the same time publicly disavowing any US security commitments to Kuwait, but also from the success of both the Reagan and the Bush administrations in heading off attempts by the US Senate to impose sanctions on Iraq for previous breaches of international law.

@patrick

Trump engages in diplomacy. OMG what a monster

PC swirling down the toilet.
6 year old girls getting their bathrooms back.
demos actually looking at ways to improve rust belt employment
nato countries realizing that bills are there to be paid
pollution treaties will be renegotiated more fairly regardless of current blather
The whole political establishment upended and aghast at every trumpian move.
Russia freaked by being played by trump to get elected and getting no sanction relief in return
Maybe it's time for libbies to redefine "dumb"...

HEY YOU says

Are Trump voters the dumbest group to ever exist?

He's doing fine.

HEY YOU says

Are Trump voters the dumbest group to ever exist?

You tell me. There were 2 choices if I remember correctly, Trump or cankles...Here's a group of cankle's voters:

CBOEtrader says

Trump engages in diplomacy.

Diplomacy for Trump: Not knowing what's going on.

justme says

Not necessarily, but Trump himself is the most unskilled president since GW Bush.

Unskilled voters voting for the unskilled.
Next Trump voter that needs life saving surgery can call me.
I read about sick people on the internet.
Ignorance is their bliss.

HEY YOU says

Are Trump voters the dumbest group to ever exist?

No, just the most recent. I'd argue that anyone who re-elected a president in the last 40 some years is dumber, since they made the same mistake twice.

NuttBoxer says

No, just the most recent. I'd argue that anyone who re-elected a president in the last 40 some years is dumber, since they made the same mistake twice.

Nothing will change & they will make it three for three?
.........

It's fun to watch Trumpians defend their Trump,like cornered rats.
No,repeal,replace,wall/Mexican pesos,currency manipulators,35% tariff,
rust belt jobs,Muslim ban,coal jobs.
How long before MAGA?

HEY YOU says

Are Trump voters the dumbest group to ever exist?

Some are, some aren't. The ones who considered him the lesser of two evils or simply could not vote for Hillary and let the establishment seal it's power for the next half century, aren't stupid. However, the ones who think Trump is a great president and is making America great again, are complete dumb asses and low-information voters.

The best we can hope for in a Trump administration is maximum chaos and minimum effectiveness until he's impeach or wreaks the Republican Party with scandal after scandal and mistake after mistake. Trump is good at defrauding people out of their money. He's done that throughout his career. He's done that during the entire presidential race. And now he's doing it as president. However, Trump isn't actually good at anything else. He certainly is utterly incapable of being president.

Ironically, Trump's incompetence and corruption is his only contribution as president. He's exposing all the flaws in our system like impeachment being impossible if the president's political party is in control of Congress. He's also terrifying the entire intelligence community, and that's a good thing. Perhaps those scumbags will be more cautious of pissing off the public now. Finally, the longer Trump remains in office, the worse the long-term effects on the Republican Party will be. Trump is utterly failing at exporting illegal immigrants and building the wall. He's not bringing back low-education manufacturing jobs. He's failed at repealing the ACA. He's failing at every promise he made.