Trump prefers a political Vice President

This video is part of reporting on The Christian Science Monitor about the world doubting Trump could make America great again. The report offers another video about how the world feels. It goes on, Paris debated banning him, Australian prime minster is trembling. The world is transfixed with mixed emotions.

Do their opinions matter?

Of course.

But do their opinions matter any more my opinion matters to them about their political situations? No. Of course not.

If you must form an opinion about our activities, and you must, then you'll form them around our decisions made without the interference of your various self-interested opinions. That is, we feel the same way as you and say the same thing you'd say to us, that is, "piss off and mind your own business."

But the guy did ask. And since they've been asked and they are kind enough to answer, let's not drop the whole distraction and listen a moment.

Zhu Feng, analyst S. China Seas issues, Nanjing University: He's a real American. Not below standards of American politics. New face for new force. Carries a lot of real hope for a lot of Americans.

Well, that was different.

Brian Hogan, heads teachers union, Ontario: The desire for change is apparent both north and south of American border. Americans angry in a lot of ways. There is a lot of rancor in that country." (something incoherent about accepting a job from a racist )

Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics, Australia: Trump's backers feel vulnerable to economic, financial immigrant invasion.

Andrei Klimov, Russian upper house member: (mundane description of desire for change) He obviously appeals to a lot of people out there, who maybe say, ‘I don’t know where Ukraine is. I don’t understand what we’re doing in Syria. I don’t want to feed refugees. Why can’t we just look after our own?

Does he know where Tennessee is? Can he go to a map and point to Rhode Island? He's saying Trump supporters are unworldly ignorant and protectionist. Here, they don't care about Ukraine and shouldn't have to care about Syria, and  actually they're tired of playing bottom to an orgy of bottoms. And that is the polite way of stating it.

Mark Triffitt, lecturer public policy, Australia: the insecurity people feel “lends itself to a mind-set that America should retreat and go back to a world which is very difficult to reconstruct, one that is built around a dominant manufacturing sector, one centered on an unambiguous sense of American power.”

Yes, Mark, I see what you mean. I'll accept that. Except nobody, absolutely nobody over here wants to go back in time to an earlier era. Nobody wants to reconstruct the past. That is so-called 'progressive' conceit leaking through. You left out the part about not having representation in Washington. You left out the whole part about out of control government and both political parties unifying into one huge entity antithetic to its own population that supports it. You didn't even mention Roberts Chief of Justices, What analysis can be complete without describing Washington sucking the life out of the nation? All the analysis that you poke with a stick from the outside does take the temperature of the inside. Even then, wherever you poke you'll take a different reading. I'm not arguing with you, I'm contributing to your argument.

Kayhan Barzegar, director of Middle East Strategic Studies Tehran, Iran: Trump could endanger US interests “considering the reality that US power ... requires engaging others [in] solving the world’s common problems.”

Shut up.

Who asked you? Oh, that guy did. Apologies. Okay, then. Yes, what you said is true. There's a chance he is irrational as Iranian leadership. Two irrationals and something's gotta give. We're sort of counting on that. Stop agonizing about your treaty. Iran already broke it and continues to mess with arrangements and persists with provocations. Yes, two irrationals operating in the same sphere, somethings gotta give.

Daniel Friedrich, teacher, Berlin: Has trust in America's checks and balances on power.

Josefina Ponce, waitress, college student, Mexico: Maybe I don't understand Americans the way I thought I did.

Andreas Schwab, member of parliament, Germany: America will suffer a bad image. His victory will blow a huge hole in the unity of the Western world.

Wow. That was great. Thanks for asking all those irrelevant people their irrelevant opinions. Everyone has so very much to learn.

*guitar riff, Fleetwood Mac, "Oh Well"*

Don't ask me what I think of you might not give the answer that you want me to.

Oh! Trump said he's narrowed his v.p. choices from 17 to 5 and would prefer they be political to balance his business, you know he's very great at business, acumen, not just regular, I mean, you know, c'mon, sharp, acumen.

He's interesting to watch in this mode. The audience is sympathetic and understands his partial sentences. He breaks off mid sentence having made the point with half of it. It's a strange speech pattern. He says, "you" while gesticulating to himself meaning, "me" and everyone knows what he intends. His language is interesting to me and entertaining.

I saw him a few time in the reality show You're Fired or something. As executive taking in information from a herd of cats, his decisions did not seem all that stable. If his reality show persona or mode is the executive we get then we're in trouble. He seems reasonable here.