1. United States
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Please read this report on a recent meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, by a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, who was in the room. “ I’ve covered a lot of Donald Trump press conferences over the years. I’ve seen him lie, deflect, and embarrass himself in countless ways. But what I just witnessed in the Oval Office may have been the most off-the-rails, unhinged display yet. Trump sat down with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte there to talk about security and alliance unity, but Trump wasn’t interested in that. He used the opportunity to fantasize about annexing Canada. He said, “Canada only works as a state,” and gushed about how the U.S. would look on a map if we erased the border and took Canada as our own. This wasn’t a joke. This was the president rambling about absorbing another sovereign nation while the NATO secretary general sat there watching this clown show unfold. Trump started pushing the idea of conquering Greenland too, saying NATO might need to get involved in helping the U.S. take it over as if it’s a game of Risk. He said we "need it for international security" and tried to rope NATO into his imperial fever dream. The look on Rutte’s face said it all. Then, Trump pivoted to his usual bigotry. He bragged about how he uses transgender people as political pawns to rile up his base before elections saying Republicans should “bring it up a week before the election” to win votes. He openly admitted he sees cruelty and manufactured culture war nonsense as a campaign strategy. When asked about tariffs, Trump did what he always does: lie and bluster. “You’re going to be so much richer,” he said. Meanwhile, Trump’s billionaire cronies are cheering as the safety net burns. Then Trump suggested we start sending drug dealers to the Netherlands in a bizarre attempt at humor that landed more like a diplomatic insult, considering the NATO secretary general used to be the prime minister of the Netherlands. He kept rambling about how the U.S. doesn’t need anything from Canada, said the European Union is “very nasty,” and told a deranged story about how he “invaded Los Angeles” to turn on the water — another lie pulled from his fantasyland. What actually happened was that he diverted water from Northern California, destroying farmland and hurting his own voters in the process. To top it off, he said our allies shouldn’t worry about Putin, brushing off any concerns about Russian aggression with a shrug. This is not normal. This is not politics-as-usual. This is a dangerous, unstable person with authoritarian fantasies, spewing nonsense in front of our closest allies while the world watches.