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"They're Laughing at Us"

Trump again embarrassed himself and his Country, this time at a NATO Summit press conference with Emmanuel Macron. In response to a reporter’s question about the apparent change in the scope of US involvement in the ongoing fight against ISIS in Syria, Turkey, and Iran, Trump asserted, as he has so many times before, that there is no longer an “ongoing fight” because ISIS no longer exists.
He went on and on and on, (as he has been known to do) noting that what remained in the region was boarder conflict that was up to the Kurds to work out with Assad and Erdogan. He then boasted that the more than 1,000 ISIS fighters captured by joint US/ Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey, were “under lock and key” in detention camps located throughout Northern Syria and that US troops previously deployed in the region were repurposed to the oil fields to “protect the oil” from ISIS (which no longer exists) insurgents. Then, in what history will note as a quintessential Sarah Palin foot-in-mouth moment, President Oral Grenade asked Macron if he’d “like to take some of those nice ISIS fighters” I presume with him, to France, from which, as was implied by a previous comment, many of them came. The room went silent. The press (which included the “lamestream media”) didn’t respond to this feeble attempt at levity, neither did Macron.
It was pretty obvious that throughout its duration, Macron was becoming increasingly agitated by Trump’s comments. Rising to the occasion, Macron quickly and forcefully came back with an I’m-putting-an-end-to-this-nonsense declaration of, “let’s get serious here!” Macron went on to call Trump out, one by one, on his phony, repeated ad nauseam, fantasy claims that he (shame on his predecessors) 1- completely destroyed the Caliphate,” 2- that given 1 above, ISIS no longer exists in the region, and, 3- that most of the ISIS fighters captured in the region were recruited out Europe.
Kudos to Macron for standing up to Trump at this most global forum, and for while doing so, landing a second shot in clearly demonstrating his superior command of the English Language.
I say he earned the gossip rights in which he, Johnson, Trudeau, and Corden later partook.

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