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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5048442" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>Trump’s mental failings are also painfully clear to foreign diplomats, who are professionally obligated to be frank and clear-eyed about him. Among themselves, diplomats early on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-foreign-trip.html" target="_blank">shared tips on meeting with Trump</a>: Don’t assume he knows anything about your country, flatter his ego, and be mindful of his extremely short attention span. It often appeared to aides that Trump didn’t even understand that other countries <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-world-knowledge-diplomatic-774801" target="_blank">are in different time zones</a>. He quickly became a “laughing stock,” as one unnamed official put it, at international meetings, where diplomats <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/this-is-why-european-diplomats-think-donald-trump-is" target="_blank">mocked his ignorance and limited vocabulary</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5048442, member: 54375"] Trump’s mental failings are also painfully clear to foreign diplomats, who are professionally obligated to be frank and clear-eyed about him. Among themselves, diplomats early on [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-foreign-trip.html']shared tips on meeting with Trump[/URL]: Don’t assume he knows anything about your country, flatter his ego, and be mindful of his extremely short attention span. It often appeared to aides that Trump didn’t even understand that other countries [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-world-knowledge-diplomatic-774801']are in different time zones[/URL]. He quickly became a “laughing stock,” as one unnamed official put it, at international meetings, where diplomats [URL='https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/this-is-why-european-diplomats-think-donald-trump-is']mocked his ignorance and limited vocabulary[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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