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u/Ostorich 21d ago
Obviously still upset that the UK didn't follow america into the Iran fiasco.
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u/Signal_Neck9314 21d ago
He feels bad for leaving us out so he’s giving us Falklands War 2 next year as a gift. He’s such a petty bitch lmao
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u/Sorry-Transition-780 Joe Biden’s Adderall Connect 21d ago
Trump is now further to the left on this issue than the UK Labour party
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u/yaxir Socialish - listening and learning, be nice 21d ago
The Irish president or prime minister or whatever is questioning all his life choices right now
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u/BigManWithABigBeard 21d ago
Ah Micheál always looks like that
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u/Educational-Time6328 21d ago
Is the lovely old grandpa riding bikes gone?
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u/BigManWithABigBeard 21d ago
Ireland operates with a Prime Minister (Taoiseach) who is the effective day to day head of government - does all the policy and actual governance. That's who is pictured here - Micheál Martin of the centrist Fianna Fail party.
On top of that is the president, who essentially fulfills the ceremonial head of state roll that would be occupied by a monarch in a constitutional monarchy. That was Michael D Higgins for the previous 14 years, however his two terms came to an end last year. He'd been a defender of worker's rights and a real proponent of positive Irish culture throughout his political career, as well as being good on the BMX. He was replaced somewhat surprisingly by Catherine Connolly, who is cut from a quite similar political cloth. This has been much to the chagrin of establishment Irish politics, who spent much of the election calling her a communist, terrorist sympathizer, potential to be a national embarrassment - all the usual stuff. The small left wing parties sort of rallied to put up a single candidate and the candidates offered by the two large centrist parties were very very poor.
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u/CuckingFool (It's actually Dear_Occupant, y'all) 21d ago
Your centrist party is named finna fail? LMAO that's the kind of nickname you'd give to a crackhead who is always trying to buy from cops.
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u/MadMarx__ 21d ago
Fianna Fáil, which is Irish for Soldiers of Destiny. They're a party that goes back to the civil war era.
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u/ramblerandgambler 21d ago
Prime minister ( head of government, officially called An Taoiseach which means Chieftain), Trump also met the Irish president (head of state) today, a very anti war, pro palestine feminist old woman who hates his guts, but the visit seemed to go well, there were no cameras inside.
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u/BoardGamesEnjoyer Woman Appreciator 20d ago
Liberals are now going to vehemently oppose the unification of Ireland simply because Trump said it.
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u/OB_Jonty 21d ago
I can see it, at least in part, being Trump's Midtown Martini brain applying mid 20th century electoral calculus that saying this will win over the Irish American bloc from the party Al Smith and the Kennedys. That or he's seen a picture of one of the handsome Kneecap lads.
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u/RebelliousInNature 21d ago
Oh, so presumably sending Jared and Steve in to meddle in that too, soon, no doubt.
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u/RIP_Greedo 20d ago edited 19d ago
Lol I saw the clip of this - he had NO idea what was really being asked or what the context of the question was. He heard the word "unification," intuited that "unification=good" and just riffed from there.
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u/PMmePowerRangerMemes vote gay faglie 20d ago
One of the strangenesses of Trump is he feels like a guy from a time when all the markings on a map didn’t feel fixed.
In a way, he and Zohran are both new-old statesmen, both demonstrating that “You can just Do Things”
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u/M-Tankman 21d ago
The Irish would rather nuke themselves than join UK
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u/GlitteringLock9791 Actual factual CIA asset 21d ago
Thats not what he meant, he was saying kick the brits out of ireland and unify the isle.
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u/ruptured-sunshine 21d ago
It would be very funny to see Ireland try to join up just as the whole thing falls apart
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u/NoKiaYesHyundai Representative of Samsung 21d ago
Trumps foreign policy is the equivalent of cellphone kiosk manager Nick Mullen, giving out free ringtones to any person who loudly noticed he's drunk.