Dear Australia, We know he's an Moron..

On Facebook, a Trump supporter I don't know proclaimed him "the greatest president ever." I responded (to the best I can recall) something along the lines of, "Whether he will be the greatest president or not, time will tell. However, I believe your comment was based on partisan loyalty rather than any objective analysis of events." Trump support response (not paraphrased): BLAH, BLAH and BLAH. I did not bother responding. I mean, I guess she told me...

The Exalted Orange One is so convinced that if he thinks it's true then it must be true. This makes him dangerous. Inconvenient things like facts don't bother him. He creates his own version of the truth.

@msiduri "BLAH, BLAH and BLAH" seems just like something a die hard Orange Kool-Aid drinker would say.

@DWDavis He is a far right populist and they have the same speech about media=liars, foreigners=bad, betrayers... For the rest, all I hope is that he will not ignite a new world war with the way he deals with other states.

@topffer My sincere hope is other world leaders will see him for the caricature he really is and not take his ridiculous pronouncements to heart.

His promise to make America great sounds a lot like another man's promise to make his country great again 80 years ago. I pray every day we don't go down the same road that country did.

@DWDavis See.. I actually voted for that Johnson guy.. not because I agreed with him or because I wanted him to win.. but because I really didn't want to vote for either of the other 2.

@katsmeow1213 I voted for Johnson because I believed in more of his platform than TEOO or Hillary. I knew he wouldn't win, but if all the folks who said they were going to vote 3rd party actually had, things might have turned out differently.

In 2016 the two major parties gave us a choice between two awful, horribly unpopular candidates. Some people I know, regardless of which one of the two they voted for, told me they voted for the lesser of two evils. I pointed out that they were still voting for evil.

@DWDavis His Character seems to be speak now think later very abrupt sometimes. Just when I can seem to make sense of him off he goes the other way.

@lovinangelsinstead21 The Exalted Orange One believes every word he says, even when what he says is the exact opposite of what he just said a minute, hour, or day ago.

I'm concerned that he doesn't seem to understand the implications of his actions.

I guess Australia will get closer to China than US in the future. At least, China is more diplomatic in its dealings with other countries. When China wants to show its displeasure towards a country, it will show in a very different way. A while back, our armoured troop carriers were held in Hong Kong after a military exercise in Taiwan. That is China's way of telling us that any relationship with Taiwan is not welcomed, though China officially denied anything to do with it.

I believe The Exalted Orange One would come to Australia's rescue because he is looking for an excuse to show he can be a great military leader.

@DWDavis Oh well, that is perhaps a positive thing.

I still shake my head in wonder at those who can't figure out why most of America seems to be against him. He lost the overall popular vote by 10,000,000 votes counting those that went to 3rd Party and Hillary. Even though he won the Electoral College, he didn't win with the people. The popular vote may not count when it comes to winning, but it means something when it's time to govern.

@teamfreak16 I refer to Trump either simply as Trump, or as The Exalted Orange One. I like Jekka's name for him, too - Trumpkin.

@DWDavis - And yet his massive ego refuses to accept that he lost the popular vote. I hate this guy. Always have. I will never use his official title. Ever. I even referred to W as President Bush, and I couldn't stand him. This guy? Never.

Perhaps that is his intention. Even if he does not agree with the agreement with Australia made by Obama administration, there is no need to accuse Australia of anything or to hang up on Turnbull.

Turnbull is a kind man and a diplomat.

@DWDavis so are you saying the man lied about the phone call...

@dlr297 I'm saying Turnbull put the best possible spin on it. Trump himself described the call as the worst one he'd had all that day, on a day when he spoke to many world leaders.

Two students who are permanent residents and students at Dartmouth (I believe I heard) were also stopped from returning from a conference overseas because they were born in one of the banned countries. Last news was, they'd finally been cleared to go back to school.

@LadyDuck Our State Department went against The Exalted Orange One's order and is letting all those with already approved visas come into the US. I believe a 5th federal court judge has now placed an injunction on the ban.

@DWDavis The Swiss-Iranian has sued Trump, Trump has menaced Switzerland not to let land all Swiss planes if we do not stop those of the banned countries.

I'll have to look up that post and remind myself of your comment. It still bothers me that he was able to hornswoggle so many people into voting for him, though I shouldn't have been. There was this guy in the early 1930s who mesmerized an entire nation and convinced them to go to war to help make their country great again.

@Poppylicious The fact is, 10,000,000 more people who voted, voted against Trump than for him. Almost 60% of Americans who voted didn't want The Exalted Orange One to be our President. And 117,000,000 who could have voted didn't bother. Those 117,000,000 are the real problem.

@DWDavis And I find this really weird. It seems that most of the American folk I know didn't vote for Trump. There's a couple I'm not sure about {one has a daughter called Reagan... not sure if that's a clue!} but I also know a very intelligent couple who are very pro-Trump. I don't understand how they can't see the parallels with the 1930s, more so because they both have very recent German ancestry.

The problem is TEOO has surrounded himself with like minded Neanderthals like Bannon the Banisher, who constantly reassure him he's doing everything right.

@DWDavis That is the fatal flaw. Again I ask, where are the adults?

And his ideas of good business usually meant bullying people into doing what he wanted while obfuscating the risk with his boisterous boasting.

@DWDavis You are correct.

We here in the States are going to have to be vigilant to prevent him from doing so. He's already challenging the power of the courts by ignoring the 4 federal court orders against his Muslim Ban. I worry that his next move will be to try to by-pass Congress and "rule" by Executive Order.

In TEOO's world, he is the black hole (or should I say orange hole) at the center of the universe. If it's not about him, then he need pay it no attention.

We already had extreme vetting. 18 to 24 months and one simple mistake sends you to the back of the line is pretty extreme. Trump banned any refugees from only certain countries, where he has no business interests, but if they are Christian, they can be fast-tracked. That wasn't existing law. He also fired the Acting Attorney General for doing the right thing because his ban was not properly vetted itself. It was written by Bannon, who has no actual authority and whose appointment to the NSC has not been voted on by the Senate, as required by law. Other Presidents did not make a practice of cozying up to dictators like Putin while alienating and threatening our neighbors and friends like Australia and Mexico, while antagonizing the largest country on Earth with empty threats.

Yes, TEOO is unprecedented in US history and hopefully will soon be unpresidented as well.

This morning's more conciliatory behavior is because somebody got ahold of him last night and told him what an idiot he was acting like insulting one of our nation's best and closest allies like he had. I'll bet is was his daughter.