Phone Calls!

So Donald Trump called the President of China last week, spoke to him.  Outrageous!

He called Putin!  Scandalous.

He called the Philippine President!   Oh My God.  What has he done!

He spoke to the President of Taiwan!

Liberals are going bat-shit crazy.  They are out of their minds!

My prediction - we will develop a better relationship with Russia than any re-set button accomplished, than any diplomacy by the Secretary of State ever accomplished.  We will have a better relationship with the Philippines (no more son of a bitch comments).  The Chinese will, respect us.  And we will stop pretending about so many things in the world.  Refreshing.

On January 21, 2009, at approximately 12:45-1:00 pm, Barack Hussein Obama made his first phone call as President of the United States.  In the decades past, that phone call had ALWAYS AND EVERY SINGLE TIME been to the Prime Minister of Canada.  Mr. Obama changed all that.  I am sure he consulted with the State Department as has become such an issue, and suggestion to Trump, recently, given that Trump did not ... Obama called ... the leader of the Fatah political party in the West Bank - Mahmoud Abbas.


Yep.

So, liberals, go bat-shit crazy over this, just remember ... Obama had 8 years of phone calls, and none of his foreign policy has worked out well.

The books will be written and will not all be kind.

It looks like Abbas / Palestinians are the last piece of foreign policy Obama works on as he leaves the White House.  Interesting.

Bat-shit crazy.  Off you go.

Donald Trump and his phone calls

Trump speaks to Taiwan:

"In an extraordinary and perhaps unprecedented break with decades of U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic protocol, President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Taiwan President Tsai Ying-wen on 12/2.  The US cut official diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 1979 after recognizing the communist government in Beijing as the sole legitimate government of both China and the breakaway republic. No U.S. president (or president-elect) has had formal contact with a Taiwanese head of state since, though the two countries maintain an unofficial relationship. According to a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, he and President Tsai discussed the "close economic, political, and security ties" between the two countries. The call will likely anger China — China considers the divorced island a territory; President Tsai is pro-independence — and could possibly provoke a response. The incoming administration will probably face new challenges as it tries to cultivate a relationship with the rising global power, especially in light of Trump's campaign promise to withdraw from the TPP."

 Might this cause a disturbance in the force?  Yes, it will.  

However, we may find, at the end of the day, China is a lot more smoke and mirrors than the economy it pretends to be.  Numbers inflated, doled out like condoms at Planned Parenthood, by the Chinese government.  We may yet see change!  There may yet be hope in China.

We pretend an awful lot.  Maybe we should stop.