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David A. Graham, The Atlantic: The World Just Laughed at Donald Trump
The president has often warned that the United States has become the butt of global jokes, and with a silly boast on Tuesday, he demonstrated it.
Everyone’s got their own recurring nightmare—naked in class, teeth falling out, whatever. For Donald Trump, that nightmare is that the world is laughing at the United States, and on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, the nightmare came true.
The president’s public remarks are littered with warnings that America is, or might be, the butt of the globe’s jokes.
“The world is laughing at us,” Trump said on the stump in October 2016. “We don’t win at the borders. We don’t win with taking care of our vets. We don’t win with anything. We don’t win anymore. We will start winning again like you’ve never seen before.” He’s kept it up since entering office. “At what point does America get demeaned? At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?” he asked in June 2017. “The world is laughing at us. The world is laughing at the stupidity of what we have done with immigration,” he said in August.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 25, 2018
Rejecting globalism, Trump lays out vision for UN based on ‘patriotism’ -- Christopher Scott, Asia Times
The Russian Bear Has Returned to the Mideast to Threaten Israel -- Mor Altshuler, Haaretz
Russian-Israeli Conflict in the Skies of Syria -- Paul R. Pillar, National Interest
What next for Russian-Israeli relations? -- Yury Barmin, Al Jazeera
Syria: Everyone else’s battleground, in both war and peace -- Angela Charlton, AP
Iranians divided on whether their leaders should talk to Trump -- Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor
The UAE Will Shape the Future of Yemen -- Adam Baron, The Atlantic
The Second Coming of Kim Jong Un -- Patrick M. Cronin, National Interest
Japan will have to adapt to protracted U.S.-China economic tensions -- Ali Wyne, Kyodo News
Beijing loses a battle in the Maldives -- but the fight for influence goes on -- Nikkei Asian Review
The questions Facebook still needs to answer in Myanmar -- Kayleigh Long, Asia Times
Russia pension protests: Alexei Navalny's re-arrest could be 'key moment' -- Roman Goncharenko, DW
Trump and Macron: Realism replaces unlikely bromance -- Angela Charlton, AP
'A smell of death': Mexico's truck of corpses highlights drug war crisis -- David Agren, The Guardian
Tequila and U.S.-Mexican Security Relations -- Michael L. Burgoyne and Raúl Benítez Manaut, War On The Rocks
The White House Cyber Strategy: Words Must Be Backed by Action -- Christopher Painter, RCD
