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This makes interesting reading.

Re: U.S President: Donald Trump
 

1. Nato
Electioneering Trump: Nato is obsolete.
Hillary Clinton & Presidential Trump: Keep Nato, it plays a vital role.

2. China
Electioneering Trump: Will designate China a currency-manipulator on his first day in office.
Hillary Clinton & Presidential Trump: Don't designate China a currency-manipulator.

3. Syria
Electioneering Trump: Less involvement than Bush in Syria, adopt an America-first policy, fate of Assad in the hands of the Syrian people.
Hillary Clinton & Presidential Trump: Global policeman.
"Indeed, Trump seems to be carrying out precisely the same policy toward Syria that Clinton promised, not only during the campaign but also in an interview just hours before the strikes."

4. Russia
Electioneering Trump: Happy to praise Putin.
Hillary Clinton & Presidential Trump: Traditional wary approach.
"What this suggests is that to whatever extent Trump’s campaign and initial administration might have been “pro-Russian”, its current orientation is the same as Clinton’s..."

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It's not same as Clintons Andrew, far from it. You have posted inaccurate stuff there on both Trump and Clinton policies during the campaign. It's all irrelevant either way, she lost (thankfully).

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If you just post the general headlines it looks very similar but if you delve deeper then a puddle huge differences become obvious and the massive change in approach and policy is also obvious. Just one to get you started Trump is still pushing for all NATO members to pay their fair share and that failure to do so will have consequences.

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What is the massive change in approach? Pushing for NATO to pay their fair share is standard as well, Trump is more vocal on it certainly but that isn't a massive change.

Trump has continued the US military action in the middle east. He has also intervened in Syria which has a massive point of contention in the election campaign with Clinton's calls for the same being called the start of WW3 - by Trump himself.

He has even continued America's attempts to curry favor with China rather than labeling them a currency manipulator. Remember in the campaign when China was his biggest foreign policy foe? Turns out that there are reasons why America has previously sought to work with China - i.e their massive size and their political influence in Asia.

I think these are good u-turns but it's mad not to call them as such.

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Way too wacky.

Why record yourself on tape giving incriminating offers? Why state explicitly what the quid-pro-quo is when both sides would already know it?

If there was collusion between the two it would be advisors speaking to Russian agents about when e-mails would be leaked and off the record assurances of sanctions being lifted etc. All Russia needed is that Trump isn't Clinton and for a while their objectives would have been the same.

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Good to see that The Onion has some competition at last, this is the funniest thing on the thread I've read for a long time. :D

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The Donald's head will explode when he hears about this although I did find one of the groups detractors responses about Trump being neither amusing


Dr Francis made clear that he - like the psychiatrists diagnosing Trump - is not a fan of the president, and finds his politics 'distressing'.
However, he insists that 'psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering' the president's approach to politics.
In fact, he said, he feels it is an 'insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr Trump (who is neither)'.
He writes: 'Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...ists-warn.html

It's okay Donald, no one listens to experts these days anyway

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At least the wall is going well:-

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...t-a-brick-wall

He wants to outsource the wall to the Chinese, they can build a great wall. Homebase have a kit, but he'd need a few of those, think of the Nectar points though Donald...

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I think it's Canada not Mexico that's the problem now.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7701186.html

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another story from the daily trumphater press .




The truth behind Trump’s “trade war” with Canada
Trump didn't start the fight over Canadian softwood lumber

For 35 years, the US and Canada have been locked in an endless fight about imported lumber — a cycle of tariffs and truces that has repeated itself under every president since Ronald Reagan.


http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...mber-trade-war

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What's wrong with the story I cited? Have you read it? It goes into the background of the situation in the same way as the Vox article does. And it even includes this quote:

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN17U0CA

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Yeah but Trump hasn't sorted it out in his first 100 days as president so it's his fault and nothing to do with the likes of Clinton and Obama.

Anyway maybe Canada should just do what the some folks around here espouse with respect to the UK's negotiations with the EU and just roll over in the face of threats from over the border...

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Who's said that?

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Well, it's 8 weeks since Trump accused Obama of a felony offence (signing off an illegal wiretap) - he still hasn't provided any evidence....