World leaders are seeing how Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin onto U.S. soil with “a literal pink carpet” and are ridiculing him for it, in line with International Coverage editor-in-chief and MSNBC contributor Ravi Agrawal.
Throughout a phase on MSNBC Friday, Agrawal and host Katy Tur defined that leaders around the globe take notice for a way Trump “lights up” and treats Putin when the 2 are collectively. That in comparison with how the president treats democratically elected representatives is greater than a bit of telling.
“That means that he embraces and lights up when he sees Vladimir Putin, [who is] not our ally, who we’ve a hostile relationship with, is so totally different, and I believe it’s so arduous to know,” Tur mentioned.
“If you’re any chief wherever on the earth proper now, you’re this and also you see two issues,” Agrawal mentioned. “One is that the foundations don’t matter. Friendships don’t matter, democracy doesn’t matter.”
Agrawal continued: “And America, which stood up for this stuff—stood up for the rules-based order—didn’t signal as much as the ICC and has a battle legal on its soil, has mistreated democratically elected leaders, however welcomes Vladimir Putin with a sturdy handshake and a literal pink carpet, which you don’t see with different leaders in the identical means. That symbolism is essential for Putin again residence, but in addition essential for different leaders around the globe as they have a look at what will get valued and what doesn’t.”
It’s not simply world leaders giving Trump a tough time for a way he treats Putin and their endlessly memeable relationship. “The Tonight Present” host Jimmy Fallon took a couple of photographs on the pair and their assembly location in Alaska on Thursday.
“Trump’s assembly with Vladimir Putin is sort of right here, and at present, Trump warned that Russia will face extreme penalties if Putin doesn’t agree to finish the battle,” Fallon mentioned as he teed the bit up. “You’ve gotten extreme penalties? Putin responded, ‘Like, what, a second assembly? Neglect this.’”
Fallon continued: “Trump is internet hosting Putin at a U.S. army base as a result of it’s peak vacationer season in Alaska, and the choices had been restricted. This assembly might finish a battle, and Alaska’s like, ‘Oh, sorry, however the Marriott convention room is all tied up with a rotary membership salmon retreat. What are you doing?”
