Pretty amazing that Trump managed to precipitate an international crisis in his first trip abroad in the most unstable region of the world.
The diplomatic breakdown with Qatar will have grave impacts on the coalition against ISIS, upset the power balance in the Middle East, and lead to broad instability throughout the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia -- particularly Arab countries. Just what we need, more instability in Islamic countries!
Qatar is going to be pushed into the arms of Iran, or more directly backing Al-Qaeda/ISIS. The war with ISIS was finally being won, and Trump decided to go throw a bucket of gasoline and 10 lit matches into the region. After Obama, and now Trump, Jimmy Carter never looked so good! Uylesses S. Grant is suddenly no longer looking like the most corrupt or inept President. Trump is making Grant look like George Washington.
It takes a record setting amount of ignorance and incompetence to alienate every single historical American alliance (from the UK to Israel) while simultaneously sparking unrest and a potential war in the Middle East. And to do it all in less than 6 months? Even Mrs. O'Leary's cow is impressed.
I tried earlier to think of a single positive that Trump has accomplished as President. Actually, I tried to think of something he's done that wasn't just window dressing designed to deceive his base or an action that ended in crisis due to his inability to plan, reason, listen, or keep his mouth shut. There's literally nothing.
On the FP side he's alienated our allies, sucked up to Communist China and Putin (who will always be a Commie), and sparked a crisis in the Middle East. He's let Syria continue to commit unspeakable war crimes, he's been out bluffed by North Korea, forced into accepting Australia's problem refugees, and has pissed off Netanyahu and pretty much 95% of Israelis..
On the domestic side, there's a special counsel that was appointed in record time to investigate the corruption of his campaign and Admin, his last 3 months of job creation is the lowest 3 month period in the past FIVE years, wages are still stagnant, and the Fed is about to raise rates due to the millions of jobs that Obama created. His travel ban is DOA, his religious freedom order was so pathetic the ACLU didn't even bother suing, and he has a recodd-shattering amount of unpopularity for a newly elected President.
Really all Trump can do is move a few ships around, lob a few cruise missiles, and recycle job announcements that actually occurred under Obama. Meanwhile, Trump signed a budget that gave Democrats literally everything they wanted without even trying to negotiate, and he put his name on a health care plan that is such a turkey that no one wants to claim any part of it.
BTW, did I mention that every day the staffer drama and ineptness of Trump's executive skills are on display for the entire world to see? It is worse than some of the fake reality shows that were INTENDED to be horrible.
Oh, and his last NSA is under federal investigation, his son-in-law is a subject of the special counsel, and everywhere you look either he, his family, or an adviser is violating ethics rules and personally enriching themselves. His top adviser, and son-in-law, has a sister peddling visas in China to anyone that wants to buy one from her corrupt little family. She did a nice PowerPoint presentation showing how the Trump White House sells access and visas to the highest bidder.
I'm likely leaving out at LEAST half of the horror story that is Trump's Presidency, but kicking off a potential WWIII in the Middle East at least deserved a congratulatory post. No, not to Trump. Can anyone think of someone who would want to see instability in the Middle East by breaking up the Sunni Gulf Coalition so that Iran & Syria are strengthened? I'll give everyone a hint: Qatar claims their state news agency was hacked. Anyone been doing any hacking and destabilizing lately in say... Ukraine, Syria, or the United States? Hmm... I bet this guy knows: