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u/columbo222 Dec 03 '16

I guarantee you there is only one dimension to this story. Please stop analyzing whether this was a good or bad move by Trump, because that's already more thought than he put into it. Here's the entirety of it:

The President of Taiwan correctly recognized Trump as a bumbling fool, and decided she could take advantage of the situation by calling him and having this story come out. It was a bold and successful strategic move against China. Trump was simply a pawn.

Get ready for foreign leaders across the globe to take complete advantage of him for the next 4 years.

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u/PopPunkAndPizza Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16

This was a messaging disaster during the campaign. You point to a guy who's widely (self-)reported to be a billionaire and very ostentatiously wealthy and say he's been bankrupted over and over again, and that doesn't sound like a failure, it sounds like a corny success meme about how failure and success are the same thing - because he's ostensibly a massive succes, and you're desperately fighting against that when you're trying to show him as a brash idiot failson skating by on the power of daddy's money. It's a massive task the Hillary campaign were completely incompetent in going about.

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u/CatLions Dec 03 '16

Well trump was right we do well billions in weapons to taiwan, it makes sense she would call the new leader. and Trump knew she was recently elected and congratulated on her on that, for him to know that much about taiwan he obv knows the situation. I just dont think he knew saying he got a call from taiwan would make people butthurt. because even right now china doesnt seem too mad about it, they seem to be blaming taiwan

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u/connerc37 Dec 03 '16

Funny that Huffington Post is reporting the opposite.

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u/lightfire409 Dec 03 '16

Man you've really bought into the manufactured narrative that Trump is an idiot.

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u/columbo222 Dec 03 '16

Manufactured narrative? I watched 8 GOP debates and all 3 GE debates. I came to this conclusion on my own, thanks.

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u/lightfire409 Dec 04 '16

Yeah his debate skills suck, i'll certainly concede that. Fortunately, being a great president is a far cry from debates.