Incredible footage of our so-called President foregoing diplomatic niceties – hell, foregoing basic politeness – to shove aside the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dusko Markovic, in order to get to the front of the crowd at a media scrum at the NATO conference in Brussels this morning.

Trump also used the opportunity to fail to endorse Article 5 of the NATO Charter, the pledge of each NATO state to come to the aid of any member who is attacked, or in short, the raison d’etre of NATO’s existence. This must certainly be setting off alarm bells throughout the capitals of Europe (except in Moscow of course, who remain delighted).

In addition Trump scolded other NATO states for their spending on the alliance, basically undermining the alliance while chiding member state for not investing more money in it.

In short, he behaved like a massive dick. Which will certainly impress Trump’s dwindling supporters back home, and the Russians, but likely no one else. No word if Trump also took the opportunity to leak any sensitive NATO intelligence as has become his habit of late.

It was possibly not lost on the reporters and assembled luminaries that for someone who has been so hostile and derisive of the press he seems pathetically desperate to get in front of them.

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