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2 days ago
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"The President Of The United States Is A F—king Moron": People Are Slamming Trump For Making A "Joke" About The Anniversary Of D-Day In Front Of The German Chancellor
Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. For those who don't know, on June 6, 1944, the Allied powers (including the United States) stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, leading to the beginning of the liberation of Germany and the rest of Europe from the Nazi regime. Well, Germany's Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, recently met with President Donald Trump at the White House, and their discussion about the anniversary of D-Day has gone viral for being yet another embarrassing moment for Trump on the world stage. In a now-viral clip seen by over 8 million people, Donald Trump made a "joke" about D-Day, telling the German Chancellor that it was "not a pleasant day for you." CNN / Twitter: @BulwarkOnline "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is D-Day anniversary. When the Americans once ended the war in Europe," Chancellor Merz said. Related: "We Don't Import Food": 31 Americans Who Are Just So, So Confused About Tariffs And US Trade "That was not a pleasant day for you. This was not a great day," Trump repeated, pointing towards the Chancellor while smiling and laughing. "No, it was not a pleasant — well, in the long run Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship," the Chancellor said, seriously. Related: AOC's Viral Response About A Potential Presidential Run Has Everyone Watching, And I'm Honestly Living For It "Sure. That's true," Trump responded. Following Trump's remarks, many people took to social media to criticize his callousness and the fact that the sitting president seemingly did not understand the historical significance of D-Day. "It's almost like he didn't know this," one user wrote in response to the clip. "Trump remains an embarrassment on the world stage," one person wrote. "When a U.S. president can't recognize the moral clarity of D-Day, liberating the world from fascism, it's not just ignorance. It's historical amnesia wrapped in his ego," another person wrote. "That's a fucking crazy thing to say to the German chancellor." And this person summed up the overall consensus, "The President of the United States is a fking moron." What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below. Also in In the News: People Can't Believe This "Disgusting" Donald Trump Jr. Post About Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Is Real Also in In the News: Republicans Are Calling Tim Walz "Tampon Tim," And The Backlash From Women Is Too Good Not To Share Also in In the News: JD Vance Shared The Most Bizarre Tweet Of Him Serving "Food" As Donald Trump's Housewife
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3 days ago
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"The President Of The United States Is A F—king Moron": People Are Slamming Trump For Making A "Joke" About The Anniversary Of D-Day In Front Of The German Chancellor
Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. For those who don't know, on June 6, 1944, the Allied powers (including the United States) stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, leading to the beginning of the liberation of Germany and the rest of Europe from the Nazi regime. Well, Germany's Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, recently met with President Donald Trump at the White House, and their discussion about the anniversary of D-Day has gone viral for being yet another embarrassing moment for Trump on the world stage. In a now-viral clip seen by over 8 million people, Donald Trump made a "joke" about D-Day, telling the German Chancellor that it was "not a pleasant day for you." German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship." — The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 5, 2025 CNN / Twitter: @BulwarkOnline "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is D-Day anniversary. When the Americans once ended the war in Europe," Chancellor Merz said. Related: "We Don't Import Food": 31 Americans Who Are Just So, So Confused About Tariffs And US Trade "That was not a pleasant day for you. This was not a great day," Trump repeated, pointing towards the Chancellor while smiling and laughing. "No, it was not a pleasant — well, in the long run Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship," the Chancellor said, seriously. Related: AOC's Viral Response About A Potential Presidential Run Has Everyone Watching, And I'm Honestly Living For It "Sure. That's true," Trump responded. Following Trump's remarks, many people took to social media to criticize his callousness and the fact that the sitting president seemingly did not understand the historical significance of D-Day. "It's almost like he didn't know this," one user wrote in response to the clip. "Trump remains an embarrassment on the world stage," one person wrote. "When a U.S. president can't recognize the moral clarity of D-Day, liberating the world from fascism, it's not just ignorance. It's historical amnesia wrapped in his ego," another person wrote. "That's a fucking crazy thing to say to the German chancellor." And this person summed up the overall consensus, "The President of the United States is a fking moron." What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below. Also in In the News: People Can't Believe This "Disgusting" Donald Trump Jr. Post About Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Is Real Also in In the News: Republicans Are Calling Tim Walz "Tampon Tim," And The Backlash From Women Is Too Good Not To Share Also in In the News: JD Vance Shared The Most Bizarre Tweet Of Him Serving "Food" As Donald Trump's Housewife
India.com
29-05-2025
- Politics
- India.com
If the third world war happens then who can stop it? First and second World War ended due to...
Will World War 3- Representative image Third World War: From the Russia-Ukraine war to the Iran-Israel conflict to the recent India-Pakistan tensions, the world has seen many small to large conflicts in the recent years. However, this is not the first time the world has witnessed these small conflicts. The first world war began in the year 1914 and it ended in 1918 with the victory of the Allied Powers over the Central Powers, resulting in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Similarly, the second world war started in the year 1939 and it ended in 1945 with the victory of the Allies, led by France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union. Both of these global wars were fought in a timespan where only limited countries of the world had nuclear powers. However, as of date, most of the global powers of the world have nuclear bombs. If a world war starts now, it will be difficult to stop it at any point in time. However, here are some global organisations which can still stop the war. 1. United Nations Security Council: The United Nations Security Council is a 15 member body which is primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security across the world. With the determining of existence of threat to the peace or act of aggression, the UNSC works for peace across the globe. 2. International Court of Justice: The International Court of Justice, also known as the 'World Court,' works to settle legal disputes between states in accordance with international law. The global court also provides advisory opinions on legal questions. In case of world war, the international body can also stop the war. The last time a world war ended, it was the World War II which ended with Germany's surrender in May 1945 and Japan's in September after the historic atomic bombings. More notably, the end of the 2nd world war lead to the founding of the United Nations for global peace.
Al Jazeera
18-05-2025
- Business
- Al Jazeera
Trump's tariffs are failing, but the old model won't save us either
On May 12, the United States and China announced that they are putting reciprocal tariffs on pause for 90 days. Some tariffs will be retained while trade negotiations continue, a joint statement said. This is yet another reversal of the sweeping tariffs US President Donald Trump imposed in early April that destabilised the global economy and sent stock markets into freefall. Although he claimed that his measures would make the US economy 'boom', it was clear from the start that they would not work. A trade war cannot improve the lot of American workers, nor bring back manufacturing into the country. Now spooked by corporations slashing profit targets and reports of the US gross domestic product (GDP) shrinking, the Trump administration appears to be walking back on its strategy. But going back to economic liberalism under the guise of 'stability' is not the right course of action. The current global economic system, distorted by policies favouring the rich sustained over decades, has proven itself to be unsustainable. That is why we need a new world economic order that promotes inclusive and sustainable development across both the Global North and South and addresses global socioeconomic challenges. The troubles that economies around the world currently face are the result of policies the elites of the Global North imposed over the past 80 years. In its original Keynesian vision, the economic order put forward by the Allied Powers after World War II aimed to combine trade, labour, and development best practices to foster inclusive growth. However, over the following few decades, corporate opposition in the US and Britain derailed this order, replacing it with a skewed system centred around the Global North's chief economic instruments, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, both created in 1944. In the 1970s, economic elites blamed rising inflation and stagnation not on temporary shocks like the oil crisis but on what they saw as excessive concessions to organised labour: government overspending, strong unions, and heavy regulation. Subsequently, they launched an institutional counter-revolution against the Keynesian model of power sharing and social compromise. This counter-revolution took shape in the 1980s under US President Ronald Reagan and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who aggressively pursued policies to restore corporate profitability. They slashed taxes on the wealthy, liberalised international capital flows that made it easier to relocate production to low-cost economies, deregulated the financial sector, weakened labour unions, and privatised public services. As a result, outsourcing of labour, tax evasion, real estate speculation, financialisation, and credit-fuelled bubbles became US corporations' dominant ways of making profit. In developing countries, the IMF, the World Bank and regional development banks pushed governments to cut public spending, privatise state-owned enterprises, remove trade barriers, and deregulate markets rapidly and with little regard for social consequences. As a result, the 1980s and 90s became lost decades for many countries embracing globalisation through radical liberalisation. These policies triggered massive employment shocks, rising inequalities, skyrocketing debt and persistent financial turbulence from Mexico to Russia. East Asian economies were the exceptions, as they learned to circumvent the straitjacket of liberal globalisation and joined the global economy on their own terms. The biggest beneficiaries of this system were Western economic elites, as corporations profited from low-cost production abroad and domestic deregulation at home. The same cannot be said for Western workers, who faced stagnating real wages, eroded labour protections, and increasing economic insecurity under the pressure of competitiveness, relocation, and automation. For those of us who studied the post-war economic order, it was apparent that without correcting the pitfalls of liberal globalism, a nationalist, illiberal counter-revolution was coming. We saw its signs early on in Europe, where illiberal populists rose to prominence, gaining a foothold first in the periphery and then gradually scaling up to become Europe's most disruptive force. In the countries where they gained power, they pursued policies superficially resembling developmentalism. Yet, instead of achieving genuine structural transformation, they fostered oligarchies dominated by politically connected elites. Instead of development, they delivered rent-seeking and resource extraction without boosting productivity or innovation. Trump's economic policies follow a similar path of economic populism and nationalistic rhetoric. Just like illiberal economic policies failed in Europe, his tariffs were never going to magically reindustrialise the US or end working-class suffering. If anything, tariffs – or now the threat of imposing them – will accelerate China's competitive edge by pushing it to deepen domestic supply chains, foster regional cooperation, and reduce reliance on Western markets. In the US, the illiberal response will drag labour standards down, eroding real wages through inflation and propping up elites with artificial protections. Furthermore, Trump has no real industrial policy, which renders his reactive trade measures completely ineffective. A genuine industrial policy would coordinate public investment, support targeted sectors, enforce labour standards, and channel technological change towards good jobs. His predecessor, President Joe Biden, laid the foundations of such an industrial policy agenda in the Inflation Reduction and CHIPS acts. However, these programmes are now under attack from the Trump administration, and their remaining vestiges will not have a meaningful effect. Without these pillars, workers are left exposed to economic shocks and excluded from the gains of growth, while the rhetoric of reindustrialisation becomes little more than a political performance. While Trump's economic policies are unlikely to work, returning to economic liberalism will not resolve socioeconomic grievances either. Let us remember that past efforts to maintain this deeply flawed system at any cost backfired. Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Western governments rescued big banks and allowed financial markets to return to business as usual. Meaningful reforms of the global economic architecture never materialised. Meanwhile, the living standards of working- and middle-class families from Germany to the US stagnated or declined as wages flatlined, housing prices soared, and economic insecurity deepened. We cannot return to this dysfunction again. We need a new global economic order focused on multilateral governance, ecological sustainability, and human-centric development. Such progressive global multilateralism would mean governments coordinating not only on taxing multinational corporations and curbing tax havens but also on regulating capital flows, setting minimum labour and environmental standards, sharing green technologies, and jointly financing global public goods. In this new economic order, the institutions of global economic governance would make space for developing and emerging countries to implement industrial policies and build stronger ties with public finance bodies to mobilise patient, sustainable capital. This cooperative approach would offer a practical alternative to liberal globalism by promoting accountable public investment and development-focused financial collaboration. Parallel to the eco-social developmentalism in emerging economies, wealthy nations need to embrace a post-growth model gradually. This strategy prioritises wellbeing, ecological stability, and social equity over endless GDP expansion. This means investing in care work, green infrastructure, and public services rather than chasing short-term profits or extractive growth. For mature economies, the goal should be shifting from growing more to distributing better and living within planetary limits. This would also allow more space for low- and middle-income countries to improve their living standards without overexploiting our limited shared natural resources. With stronger cooperation between national and multilateral public finance institutions and better tools to tax and regulate corporations, governments could regain the capacity to create stable, well-paying jobs, strengthen organised labour, and tackle inequalities. This is the only way for American workers to regain the quality of life they aspire to. Such progressive multilateralism would be a powerful long-term antidote against illiberal populism. Achieving this shift, however, requires building robust global and regional political coalitions to challenge entrenched corporate interests and counterbalance the existing liberal, capital-driven global framework. The challenge is clear: not only to critique Trump's destructive policies but to present a bold, coherent vision of industrial renewal, ecological sustainability, and global justice. The coming months will show whether anyone is prepared to lead that transformation. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Donald Trump Mocks Europe for Celebrating the End of WWII: 'We're the Ones That Won the War'
Donald Trump recently mocked France and other countries over World War II victory celebrations While addressing U.S. troops in Qatar, the president said that it was the U.S. that "won the war" Trump then mocked Emmanuel Macron by impersonating a phone call he had the French Prime MinisterPresident Donald Trump is continuing his campaign to claim victory in World War II for the United States alone. While addressing U.S. troops at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday, May 15, Trump, 78, spoke about his recent executive order declaring that May 8 is now a national holiday: Victory Day for World War II. The decision, Trump said, was inspired by seeing other countries celebrate the end of the war in Europe on May 8, also known as VE Day. "I'd call up a certain country and they said, 'Oh, we're celebrating the victory of World War II today, sir,' ' the president said. "Then I speak to another one, and they were celebrating. And the fact is, Russia was celebrating, France was celebrating, everybody was celebrating but us. And we're the ones that won the war." "We won the war. And they helped, but without us, they don't win the war,' Trump continued. 'We're all speaking German. Without us, they're speaking German — maybe a little Japanese too." While the Allied Powers during the World War II were considered to be the U.S., United Kingdom and Soviet Union — with China later joining, as they were already at war with Japan — they were aided in fighting by troops from all over the world, including France, Poland, Canada, Australia, Norway, Greece, India, Brazil, Mexico, Philippines and many more. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. However, Trump continued to insist on America's supremacy, noting that the U.S. "did a little bit more than France" in securing even went so far as to mock French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron, though he did call him a 'good guy, by the way.' Impersonating Macron's accent, Trump recalled a recent phone call: "'Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans.'"'I said, what the hell? Every country I've spoken to in the last week is celebrating the war but us. Isn't that terrible?" the president continued. In addition to May 8, Trump has also declared that Nov. 11, now known as Veterans' Day, will henceforth be known as "Victory Day for World War I." 'I got my crack staff over there, and we did it,' he told the troops. 'We have May 8, and we also have the date in November. That sacred date in November for World War I, because we won that war, too." However, Trump made it clear that the new holidays would be 'working holidays," and would not include official time off. "We have a lot of holidays, I'm not so sure we should have them, and you don't have to go to work. Our country has to go to work. So we're going to have a working holiday for each one of those two dates," he clarified. Despite effectively stripping away a national holiday that would one day celebrate them as veterans, Trump — who famously dodged military service due to bone spurs in his feet — did take time during his speech to praise the assembled soldiers. 'As president, my priority is to end conflicts, not start them,' he said. 'But I will never hesitate to wield American power if it's necessary to defend the United States of America or our partners. And this is one of our great partners right here. "When we're threatened, America's military will answer our enemies without even thinking about it,' he continued. "You're the people that are defeating chaos, combating terror, defending our interests, supporting our allies, securing our homeland and making America incredibly proud. And, you know what? Making America great again." Read the original article on People
