Donald Trump won little applause during Munich Security Conference — and Ivanka wasn’t too pleased

[tulc]

Why Ivanka looked furious during Merkel’s speech

Donald Trump is winning little applause in Europe. Literally.

On Friday, world leaders and country representatives gathered for the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany.

In addition to handshakes, exchanged pleasantries and speeches from world leaders, we were treated to some rather awkward footage of Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump.

The Vice President gave a speech representing the US — but things took an icy turn when he brought up Mr Trump.

“To all of you, I bring greetings from a great champion of freedom and of strong national defence, who must work with these members of Congress to strengthen America’s military might and strengthen the leadership of the free world,” Mr Pence said. “I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.”

At this, there was a complete silence from the crowd. In the footage, Mr Pence waits expectantly his head down for several painful seconds of silence, before he moves on:

You might dismiss this as a simple gesture of listening politely.

But consider this stark contrast: German Chancellor Angela Merkel received a standing ovation after she gave a speech that repeatedly criticised US foreign policy.

In the speech, before 30 heads of government and 90 ministers, Ms Merkel resisted Mr Pence’s calls to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, and criticised the US decision to withdraw its troops from Syria.

“Is it a good thing to immediately remove American troops from Syria, or will it not strengthen Russia and Iran’s hand?”

tulc(thought this was interesting)

 

[Go Braves]

She ought to be grateful the folks were too polite to boo.

 

[usexpat97]

Did Ivanka wear her "Miss Nepotism USA" sash to the conference?

 

[grasping the after wind]

What a catastrophe. Trump is disliked by a bunch of white privileged European bureaucrats. Oh no ! How will we survive without their approval ?

 

[usexpat97]

So which part makes their disapproval not matter? That they're white, or that they're Eurropean?

 

[EpiscipalMe]

What a catastrophe. Trump is disliked by a bunch of white privileged European bureaucrats. Oh no ! How will we survive without their approval ?

It boggles my mind that Trump supporters don’t see a problem with POTUS distancing the US from our one-time European allies. He is effectively making the US irrelevant in world affairs.

 

[grasping the after wind]

It boggles my mind that Trump supporters don’t see a problem with POTUS distancing the US from our one-time European allies. He is effectively making the US irrelevant in world affairs.

Europe is actually relevant in world affairs only in terms of being a base for US military operations. The white privileged European leaders simply cannot come to terms with their own irrelevance. White privileged Europe is a thing of the past Asia , Africa and the Americas are the future. The European west still views the US as their child but children grow to maturity while parents decline into
senility and that is the case with present day Europe expecting the other parts of the world to change their depends for them because once they were the one in charge though now they are just old and toothless.

 

[grasping the after wind]

So which part makes their disapproval not matter? That they're white, or that they're Eurropean?

That they are irrelevant.

 

[usexpat97]

White, European people are irrelevant?

 

[EpiscipalMe]

That they are irrelevant.

You truly feel that Europeans are irrelevant?

You and Trump are made for each other.

Good thing most people don’t agree with you.