Australian Journalist’s Trump Takedown Goes Viral
An Australian television reporter’s comments about President Trump’s impact on the recently concluded G-20 summit have gone viral:
In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump’s performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.
The journalist, Chris Uhlmann, said in a segment originally broadcast on the program “Insiders,” that Mr. Trump was an “uneasy, lonely, awkward figure” at the meeting and that the president “has no desire and no capacity to lead the world.”
The video immediately took hold on social media, and by Sunday morning had been viewed more than a million times on Twitter and Facebook — further emphasizing how viral videos, once reserved for cute kitties and humorous mishaps, have become increasingly political, and that interest in these gatherings of world leaders is no longer just for policy wonks.
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In the “Insiders” video, Mr. Uhlmann, the politics editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the country’s main public broadcaster, assessed Mr. Trump in bold and brash terms. His commentary would be out of line for American journalists, who are supposed to strive for objectivity and to keep opinions to the editorial pages.
“What did we learn?” Mr. Uhlmann asked about Mr. Trump’s stint at the conference. “We learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a global leader.”
In November, another harsh critique of Mr. Trump, also delivered via video, went viral. The Irish Labour senator Aodhan O’Riordain condemned the results of the United States election, calling the then president-elect a “fascist.” It has been viewed 3.3 million times on the senator’s Facebook page alone.
Here’s the video clip, which started out on the Twitter feed of Australian broadcast network ABC:
What did we learn about @realDonaldTrump at this #G20? @CUhlmann explains. #Insiders pic.twitter.com/TGOXdiFWhB
— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) July 8, 2017
This, my friends, is what the world thinks of us now.
“This, my friends, is what the world thinks of us now.”
No, dear boy, that’s what an ignorant and inconsequential overseas journalist thinks of us. The decline of the US, happily overseen by Barry O and his idiotic ideological siblings, has been temporarily halted. Whether we can reverse the decades of damage done by idiot liberals (BIRM) is yet to be determined.
You appear to live in a very small world.
Who is Chris Uhlmann?
@alanstorm: A real loony lefty right out of the Hugo Chavez basket, ain’t he? Ignorance is a choice you seem rather fond of.
@alanstorm:
It is always projection for you all in the right wing bubble.
We are witnessing the most incompetently Government run by an incompetent President.
I’ve concluded that the Trump Presidency model is that of Warren G. Harding.
@alanstorm:
Anyone who voted for the Orange Snowflake, and continues to support him even after his disastrous first 6 months in office, has serious mental health issues.
LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR…You need professional help.
Obamacare will cover it. Just be sure to get help before Republicans take away your access to health care.
We all have friends or relatives that are Republican. Most of them are good people overall even if we think they are generally misinformed. But this is the first time in my lifetime where a large percentage of them are awfully quiet, or even vocally against a Republican administration.
This gives me some amount of solace, that some people are finally understanding what has happened here: We have elected a nincompoop.
@OzarkHillbilly:
It wouldn’t matter if Uhlmann were the president of the William F. Buckley Institute for Conservative Studies. Uhlmann doesn’t like Trump; therefore, Uhlmann is a lying traitorous Commie elitist.
How many times have you seen a commenter call a writer a Democrat/leftist/libturd/commie over one isolated comment seen as anti-Republican. I’ve seen it done to Bill Kristol and Chuckles Krauthammer.
The Trump clan a thousand times more corrupt and incompetent and classless than the Obamas? Who cares, MAGA and Barry sucks! Such burning hypocrisy and idiocy….
@alanstorm: Considering how many countries are going their own way in spite of whatever Trump says, where do you get the idea that Trump is “increasing” American power?
China’s taking over on the TPP front. Germany and China are roaring ahead on the renewable energy front. Europe is cranking up its own military and its own science research given that they know they can’t count on the US any more. Japan and the EU are signing some nice big fat trade agreements totally oblivious to whatever the US says.
Why do you think people are going to listen to us any more? Trump can bluster all he wants about “American Power” but if no one else listens what good is it?
Trump supporters think that allies deciding that the U.S. can’t be trusted, is no longer a world leader, and making trade deals and global decisions without us means that the U.S. is strong. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.
@gVOR08:
Endlessly. As I say, if you breathe one word of criticism of Trump, that makes you a Commie libturd. Ben Sasse is a Commie libturd. Ted Cruz is a Commie libturd. Lindsey Graham is a Commie libturd.
Charles Krauthammer has been a Commie libturd ever since that day in 2008 he suggested that Sarah Palin finish out her term as governor and study up on foreign and domestic policy if she ever wanted to run for national office again.
BREAKING NEWS:
Leftists don’t like President Donald Trump.
OTB is becoming The Hill.
Rick Wilson calls Trump the “Opiate of the Asses.”
@TM01:
It’s not about liking Donnie Snowflake or not liking him…it’s about loving this country.
You are excusing what looks like treason…an effort to get dirt on an opponent in an American campaign from the Russians, an enemy who is widely known to be engaged in spying inside the United States. You are excusing collaborating with Russian agents intent on undermining our democracy.
If you like the Russians so much, I would suggest you move there.
@TM01:
A loyal American, when approached by foreign agents promising dirt on an opposing political candidate, would call the FBI.
@TM01: Another idiot heard from.
@TM01:
TM01’S NEW DEFINITION:
Leftists: anyone who doesn’t like President Donald Trump!
(So… about 60+% of the country?)