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From this morning's appearance in the Oval Office with the German Chancellor:
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."
I know it will surprise no one that the "press" is not covering this in favor of the elon/donnie catfight, but think about what this means for a moment. And what could the Chancellor have been thinking?

C_U_L8R
(47,726 posts)What a dope.
COL Mustard
(7,527 posts)Kind of amusing if it wasn’t so serious.
Klondike Kat
(895 posts)COL Mustard
(7,527 posts)I may have gotten the idea from a cartoon, but I’m not sure if it was that one!
Shellback Squid
(9,541 posts)senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)Sadly, I expect things to sink even lower.
Ocelot II
(126,219 posts)Of course, Trump is too stupid and ignorant of history to understand that Hitler and the Nazis nearly destroyed Germany, and that Hitler's defeat saved it so it could rebuild itself as a functioning democracy.
Deuxcents
(23,193 posts)When foreign dignitaries come to the Oval Office, is there no one to explain a little background or explanation about the occasion or what to say? Who is running this shitshow?
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)and probably the European press as a whole. Our press is just as embarrassing as he is the way they ignore it.
calimary
(87,143 posts)“Oh we dare not tell the truth. No telling what he’d do to us/our outlet/our network/our publisher… “
Ocelot II
(126,219 posts)“It wasn't a good day for you,” the American president replied.
– President. It was the liberation of the country from Nazism. We owe you a lot. That is why I say that the United States is now in a strong position to end this war, Merz said after Trump's comment.
Trump also described the war in Ukraine as a bloodbath, while comparing it to a fight between two little children who hate each other.
"Sometimes it's better to just let them fight for a while and then pull them apart," Trump said during the meeting at the White House.
"You see it in hockey, you see it in sports. Let them hold on for a few seconds," Trump continued, acknowledging that "it's probably not going to be pretty."
Merz also asked to say a few words in German during the press conference. When he finished, Trump asked if he could speak English.
– Do you speak English, you speak English so well, but would you say it's as good as your German? Trump asked.
– It's not my native language, but I try to understand everything and speak as best I can, Merz replied.
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/Mnl85E/merz-tatt-imot-av-trump-vi-elsker-tysklands-folk
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)of the European leaders to speak English as well as their native language and probably a few other languages as well. When I taught second grade students, the majority of whom spoke another language at home, I heaped on the praise that they were bilingual. And it wasn't just an empty compliment. I really admired them. When they and their parents knew where I was coming from, they appreciated it and it made our partnership mutually rewarding and beneficial. Sorry, but I still get emotional thinking about the hardships some of my students and their parents had to endure.
SWBTATTReg
(25,509 posts)America, and other places. I always loved the multiple mixing of cultures, and the different languages...my deceased Ex spoke six languages (father was German, grandparents were Italian, German, Peruvian, English, and a little South American indian dialect. I can't remember all of the languages, but it was sure something else, and everything we had an event at the house, I would meet people from all over the world at the house.
I loved it! Definitely proved that America is the original and ongoing melting pot of the world. Something that so many seem to forget, amongst the hate and vitriol that tRUMP and his losers spew out nonstop.
sdfernando
(5,824 posts)taco felon would never retain it in that tiny pea-brain of his.
LittleGirl
(8,799 posts)Lived there for almost 15 years. Our "news" is disgusting.
SimplyHadEnough
(82 posts)Did no one prep him or is he too stupid to be prep?🤦♀️
newdeal2
(3,451 posts)I think we know how Trump feels about the Nazis.
ret5hd
(21,630 posts)exactly WHAT ideologies are being taught in these high-end private schools.
D-Day was a bad day?
Democracy is bad?
Strong men are good?
Let’s pull some textbooks and see what exactly is being taught in these places.
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)
Ping Tung
(3,131 posts)He's like the 4 year old who pull down his pants and burst into laughter at a funeral.
gab13by13
(28,978 posts)I love it.
What will Krasnov do to Germany to try to save face?
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)that he was burned or "beat down" (love it!)? I really doubt it. The folks on FAUX and friends would have to explain it to him very slowly.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)compared to the way the German Chancellor confronted Trump on the Russia/Ukraine War..........
sinkingfeeling
(55,983 posts)progressoid
(51,653 posts)Bev54
(12,687 posts)The moron know no history at all, except that which he makes up for himself.
Captain Zero
(8,174 posts)nt
Biophilic
(5,903 posts)Every time he holds one of these press meetings with a world leader he comes off as a borish, uneducated thug. He can’t help himself. I don’t know why the people who work for him don’t die of embarrassment.
Evolve Dammit
(21,089 posts)senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)ignorant.
ZDU
(603 posts)Karma, m*therf*cker. Reap what you sow...
Vinca
(52,437 posts)ancianita
(41,164 posts)No wonder the press won't cover it.
Thank you for the post!
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)with foreign leaders for many reasons, so I didn't hear the whole thing. But it seems like the Chancellor was a little surprised that trump was not mentioning the anniversary of D-Day since it is tomorrow. And every other US President before him would have used this opportunity to do so.
ancianita
(41,164 posts)what these Oval Office meetings force the press to show is the stark difference in Western leadership, which is good, because the felon needs to be contrasted with NATO leadership -- they find they can use him as their foil to counter Russian narratives skulking around the EU, and
because youth (though they've read history) have known little else in their lives but media's sane-washing of stupidity and lawless drama.
They're also an opportunity for us to see that our allies have not forgotten Americans and their FDR democracy.
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)by our "journalists" unfortunately. I know I sound like a broken record but they are absolutely FAILING in their duty to inform the public.
ancianita
(41,164 posts)senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)I actually read about this on a bluesky post from the Bulwark. But I just wish that more of the press assigned to cover trump (the WH Press Corps) would challenge him like the adversaries they are supposed to be. And it would also be great if they wouldn't display their double standard by changing into mild mannered access journalists as soon as he took office. I admire many journalists out there, but not them.
ancianita
(41,164 posts)here's the thing. We can wish all we want but have to face the reality that the WH press corps is HIS hand picked
press corps, nothing but ditto head corporate lap dogs who sane wash his stupidity. They're not real journalists since they don't care about truth and facts, just their owners and paychecks.
Sure, it would be great if they resisted him, but we still have an honest press corps of journalists. And the 1st Amendment exists so that he can't go after them.
Because of them and law firms like the pro-Democratic Elias Group, we know he's already lost 96% of his cases, and in a country as big as this one, it will take time for that fact to give his regretting voters a reason to vote differently in 2026. You can tell his corporate press are worried, which is why they cover his front men like Hawley, so they can use a loyalist to back up his attacks on the judiciary and judges. We're fighting them in those congressional meetings.
Our allied leaders visit because they still back the Democrats; they know they're the long term beneficiaries of the Democratic Project that produced a free West. We should still have hope driving our politics, because fear, hopelessness and despair are what the Koch oligarch network want the People to feel. And I know you know this because you posted what Merz said. So thanks.
Wednesdays
(20,591 posts)Remember Helen Thomas? She passed before TSF came on the scene, but if she were around today, she'd have skewered him alive.
BurnDoubt
(856 posts)Canada Kid
(257 posts)Look up STUPID DUMBASS MORON in the dictionary....and the word TRUMP is printed beside it!!
SheltieLover
(72,066 posts)
Klarkashton
(3,670 posts)How is it possible that people would have voted for that asshole?
Gum Logger
(155 posts)into thinking America was post racial. Dems then did not prepare for the blowback from the election of the first nonwhite president.
electric_blue68
(22,584 posts)And President Obama getting like 300% more death threats than any previous President! DUHH!
Wednesdays
(20,591 posts)Two words: Fox News.
It's not the only reason, but a huge chunk of it.
SheltieLover
(72,066 posts)I guess that's 1 reason world leaders make the big bucks.
Do they have to bring coloring books to set out their countrys' positions?
Gawd what an embarrassment!
marble falls
(67,106 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 04:21 PM - Edit history (1)
Alice Kramden
(2,718 posts)And I completely agree
EarthAbides
(333 posts)but, the fascist pig worships Hitler, so D-Day was/is a horrible day in his eyes.
johnnyfins
(2,501 posts)This
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,765 posts)Figarosmom
(7,166 posts)He thinks 🇩🇪 Germany WAS BETTER OFF UNDER HITLER.
FakeNoose
(38,009 posts)Germany lost an entire generation of men to the horrors and destruction of World War II. But it was children and womenfolk who survived when the dust finally settled, and most of them were rooting for the Allies to liberate them. Not many Nazis were left, few survived the last battles, many were taken prisoner by the Soviets, others killed themselves, or else ran off when they found a chance to do so.
Since Chump never studied history, and he has no empathy for anyone but himself, it's beyond his reasoning. D-Day is an important day in Germany, and all of western Europe. Not that Chump would ever understand or care.
Warpy
(113,734 posts)or any of his glassy eyed thralls. Maybe one or two people in the Oval Office will realize he's been insulted but King Git will never get it,
Chancellor Merz has nothing to fear.
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)but the WH press corps should at least be commenting on it. Can you imagine the headlines if Biden ever did that?
AllaN01Bear
(26,636 posts)
mr. trump

Paladin
(31,109 posts)And yet another piss-poor, embarrassing comment from trump. How predictable...
senseandsensibility
(22,990 posts)and are subtle enough that he doesn't even know what hit him.
Paladin
(31,109 posts)malaise
(287,014 posts)Rec
johnnyfins
(2,501 posts)TSF is asking him sarcastically about it being a pleasant day. And then he thumb points at him as he looks away laughing. TSF was trying to make it look like the German President was being ungrateful.
GoodRaisin
(10,367 posts)to show the world how clueless he is.
Justice matters.
(8,670 posts)and nobody is doing anything to stop him from profiting off the Presidency of the United States.
czarjak
(13,033 posts)Asked the “Knows More Than The Generals” impervious imbecile. In 2021. I like presidents that know America’s history.
Buddyzbuddy
(1,230 posts)


Norrrm
(2,499 posts)The only Drumpf/Trump family members serving in Normandy would have been on the cliffs looking down.
Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!
Aristus
(70,472 posts)They will no doubt let Trump have it in some very thoughtful artwork.
niyad
(125,450 posts)niyad
(125,450 posts)proud patriot
(102,159 posts)Captain Zero
(8,174 posts)nt
betsuni
(28,109 posts)GAJMac
(246 posts)"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
Dem4life1970
(943 posts)...he thinks that a German Chancellor would automatically have sympathy for Trump's idol Adolf.
In reality, a German Chancellor in today's Germany most likely views WWII the way Lincoln viewed the Civil War.
Unlike Trump, they don't think there are "very fine people on both sides."
Kali
(56,334 posts)His whole perspective is win-lose. the Germans lost. that's all he sees. he has no more subtle or complex understanding than that.
Blue Owl
(56,784 posts)What a goddamned idiot….
BradBo
(750 posts)gademocrat7
(11,579 posts)were on full display. CF acted like the buffoon he is. The German Chancellor was dignified and intelligent.
Martin68
(26,209 posts)But also a remarkable look into the "mind" of a man who seems to think Germany was better off under Hitler and his Nazis.