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Originally Posted by gynn
Its not going too well, though. The sabre rattling of his advisors in saying Israel would be fully justified in launching a unilateral nuclear strike on Iran didn't go down too well, so he quickly changed his stance to saying that Israel should retain the right to defend itself.
This after he insulted the United Kingdom by saying we couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery (or words to that effect).
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Sadly things went from bad to worse as the tour continued.
In a keynote speech, he declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, even though US policy holds that the city's designation is a matter for negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
He was accused of racism after he told an audience of Jewish donors that cultural differences explained why Israel's economy was much larger than that of the Palestinians.
He tried to praise the Polish trade union movement, Solidarity, for helping to topple Communist rule, but Solidarity were not having anything to do with him, given his history of attacks on trade unions in the US.
During the whole tour, he only answered three questions from US reporters, prompting his Press Secretary to answer legitimate questions from the reporters with "Kiss my ass" and "Shove it"
The only thing missing was his trousers falling down as he boarded the flight home, which would have been entirely in keeping with the tone of his tour.
