{"id":136864,"date":"2018-07-08T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T18:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/the-ugly-americans.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:11:39","slug":"the-ugly-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/the-ugly-americans.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people who will tell you that the US has always been a pro-US corporation bully; if so, Trump is stripping away any pretense to being anything else.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, threatening third world countries with economic sanctions, treating to cut World Health Organization funding, if WHO passed a resolution supporting breast feeding rather than formula feeding?<\/p>\n<p>The US will be a century trying to live down what this President (who was almost certainly a bottle baby) has done in less than two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/amp.slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/07\/trump-administration-shocks-global-health-officials-by-opposing-pro-breastfeeding-resolution.html'><br \/>\n<img src='' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/amp.slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/07\/trump-administration-shocks-global-health-officials-by-opposing-pro-breastfeeding-resolution.html'>Trump Administration Shocks Global Health Officials by Opposing Pro-Breastfeeding Resolution<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe United States threatened poorer countries with economic retaliation if they sponsored the measure.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/H6K3bJQujxE'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people who will tell you that the US has always been a pro-US corporation bully; if so, Trump is stripping away any pretense to being anything else. I mean, threatening third world countries with economic sanctions, treating to cut World Health Organization funding, if WHO passed a resolution supporting breast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/the-ugly-americans.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ugly Americans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,528,77,10,380,740,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-race-racism","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/who-is-feeding-russian-news-stories-to-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":136864,"position":0},"title":"Who is feeding Russian news stories to Donald Trump?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Oct-16 4:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"An obscure story in the Russian official news service attributed (falsely) a Wikileaked statement by a journalist to Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, one of the bogey-men of the Right, seeming to indict Hillary Clinton for her conduct regarding BENGHAZI!. 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