Australian reporter Chris Uhlmann’s report on Donald Trump at the G20 summit has gone viral after he nailed what most of the world is thinking of the U.S. leader:
Said Uhlmann:
“We already know that the President of the United has a particular skill set: that he’s identified an illness in Western democracies, but he has no cure for it and seems intent on exploiting it…and we’ve also learned that he has no desire and no capacity to lead the world.”
Added Uhlmann:
“The G20 became the G19 as it ended. On the Paris climate accord, the U.S. was left isolated and friendless. But given that was always going to happen, a deft president would have found an issue around which he could rally most of the leaders. And he had the perfect one – North Korea’s missile tests.”
Uhlmann added:
“It’s the unscripted Trump that’s real: a man who barks out bile in 140 characters, who wastes his precious days as president at war with the West’s institutions like the judiciary, independent government agencies, and the free press….Donald Trump’s a man who craves power because it burnishes his celebrity. To be constantly talking and talked about is all that really matters… and there is no value placed on the meaning of words, so what is said one day can be discarded the next.”
