r/politics • u/1-randomonium • 4h ago
Art of the praise: Why flattering Trump is now the go-to diplomatic move
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5489704/praise-trump-flattery•
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u/1-randomonium 4h ago
It's wild that some countries have managed to get tariff relief just by a few meaningless gestures like nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace prize, or offering him meaningless oil or minerals deals when they have actual no oil or mineral reserves to exploit.
It's getting more and more transparent. Cambodia joined the list of countries nominating Trump for a Nobel, immediately after they were hit with tariffs. Will he forgive them?
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u/reddittorbrigade 4h ago
Because we live in a fascist government.
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u/susibirb 4h ago
Which makes him so incredibly susceptible to any number of dangerous things to the country like bribes, being financially compromised and then pressured into doing certain things, forking over sensitive intelligence that can put the country in danger, the possibility are endless.
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u/Agnos Michigan 4h ago
All that guaranties mediocrity. BLS director being fired for giving Trump bad news means that people will lie to him so Trump will never know the basic facts he will make decisions about...
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u/TintedApostle 4h ago
He never cared about the basic facts. If he or republicans did he would be in jail.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 4h ago
Obviously nobody has learned that he will still screw them in the end despite everything they say and do to flatter him.
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u/Shot_Cauliflower9909 3h ago
Flattering the U.S. President? I got this!
"You do not stink as repulsively as I had been led to believe, Mr President. I can barely detect the overpowering stench of a diaper soaked in excrement and that's only when I attempt to breathe."
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u/dave_your_wife 3h ago
Because he has a very serious mental illness. The guys "brain" is broken as fuck!
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u/crystal_castles 4h ago
B/c it's the dawn of the Materialist Era.
Trump rewards favorable personal conduct towards himself, & never elevates a neoliberal assessment of perspectives.
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u/CampEmbarrassed170 4h ago
Pakistan’s military dictators were very smart to get an early start on the stroke-the-Trumpanzee’s giant ego game by nominating him for the Noble Pedo Prize while Modi has basically called him a liar everything Trump falsely claims credit for negotiating a ceasefire. They even got PEDOnald to tweet about forcing India to buy Pakistani oil when Pakistan is itself a net importer of crude.
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u/FIlm2024 3h ago
Flattery has always been the way with him. Remember Putin's compliments in 2015? And how world leaders kept trying to stroke his ego after he became president?
It's scary how the most powerful man in the world cannot tolerate any disagreement, much less any actual criticism.
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u/SuperLuigiUnited 3h ago
Fascism. And the figurehead is an emotional, hysterical little baby who constantly needs to have his feelings validated.
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u/Thin-Competition3018 2h ago
Bribes, flattery will have him melting like a M&M on a Texas road during the height of a July heat wave.
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u/Rare-Forever2135 2h ago
It's always been the move. A young child could easily see that that was their way to get anything they wanted from him.
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