So (don't all good
s begin with "So"?) a Trump-Hating Prog FB friend posted an article from Mother Jones Mag calling out President Trump for not attending the climate summit yesterday at the UN. Since I had seen a video clip of the Swedish Twit (spelling that carefully) scowling as President Trump chanced to walk by her (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i_rgFSNPFw ), I knew Trump had been at the UN yesterday. So I looked into what Trump had done there, and responded to my FB Friend thus:
President Trump met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday and then at the UN on Monday met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien-Loong, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. He also spoke at a conference on religious freedom. All and any of those are far more important than listening to a tantrum from Sweden's Veruca Salt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4
I could have explained the various issues Trump is likely to have discussed with that collection of world leaders, but decided to see if the FB Friend would ignorantly claim that none of those are particularly important.
Using this post as a sort of scratch paper against FB Friend taking that bait:
* Tensions between India and Pakistan are not very short of war;
* Poland is becoming a base for US forces in EuroLand to deter Russian aggression (this FB Friend still buys the
Trump-Russia Collusion narrative, so that would be a double in-your politics' face,
);
* Singapore and New Zealand are key Allies in the Western Pacific;
* Egypt, India, and Pakistan are all hotbeds of religious persecution against Christians and - in India's case - Muslims.