Yes, I am well aware that our allies have never been watching what the United States does more closely. Trump is sending out all of the wrong signals and the reports here are that all of our allies have already written him off as a hopeless case and they are instead talking to other contacts in the administration and government in hopes of riding out however long it is that Trump holds office.

Trump working to undermine NATO at every step is exactly one of the items on Putin's list. Putin wants NATO destroyed, Trump is working to do just that. Putin was furious that NATO admitted Montenegro and so Trump goes out just after meeting with Putin and badmouths Montenegro. Coincidence? I think not.

The tariffs Trump has imposed are bad for the United States and our allies...however, they are exactly what Putin wanted. China immediately slowed purchasing soy beans from the United States and began buying from Russia...that's billions of dollars flowing out of the United States and to Russia in that one item alone.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/china-buys-record- amount- of-russian-soy-as-it-shuns-u-s-growers

So, who are the tariffs good for? Americans and our allies? Absolutely not. Putin and Russia? You bet. This is totally upside down.

Problem is, Trump supporters have no clue about this. They are too focused on immigration and guns. This is how the Republican party works here. Distract the voters to issues that are not actually issues for them while they absolutely screw them with the policies they are truly pursuing. Nobody is coming for their guns and immigrants are not destroying the United States. They did the same thing with abortion for years, making it a be all end all issue to distract voters and to demonize who they wanted to demonize. Was abortion destroying America? Absolutely not.

Somebody like our pal Marc here would say to me that I must be in favor of government controlling our lives...funny, there is no bigger way to control Americans, what they can buy, from where, and how much they pay than imposing tariffs. This is BIG GOVERNMENT control at it's most obvious. Do you think he gets that? Probably not. If Marc were a true conservative Republican he would be hopping mad at this. I doubt he is because he can't see how he is being screwed. He has his gun though.

Outside of the fact that Donald Trump's foreign relations playbook appears to have been directly given to him by Putin, his domestic policy is completely geared toward screwing the American public. Trump's tax policy and deregulation are all about letting big business run amok and skyrocketing our debt...and Trump does not believe in paying off debt. It is just a toy to him.

Trump daily weakens this country, weakens our relations with allies, while openly acting as a PR man for Putin.

Simply put, this is a smash and grab presidency. It is designed to do as much damage to the United States and destroy as many institutions as it can or at the very least throw them into complete disarray with whatever amount of time Trump has in office. Then we will surely get a Democrat elected as president next and that poor bastard will be buried in the mess Trump made and dishonest Republicans will blame that new president for the disaster they and Trump created.

This is why Republicans are rushing to make their horrific tax policy permanent because no sane person would back this as president...but Trump is not sane...so buckle up.