conference yesterday was president erdogan and president trump, they buried the hatchet. they buried it right in the back of the kurds. and it s shocking to see the kurds push back into what does begin to look like ethnic cleansing. here s a news flash. 300,000 of them are marching into the desert and winter is coming, literally. so that is a sad day. and as mike barnicle just said, the knock-on effect are going to be felt strategically in a lack of confidence in what the united states stands for. that s a bad day for american diplomacy. it s a bad day for american diplomacy, a bad week for american diplomacy, and unfortunately the next president of the united states is going to be cleaning this up. in fact, we re going to be cleaning this up for ten years because no one, admiral, is going to be believe, are they, that you can trust the word of the united states of america.
people don t do conventions in doral, they go there to play golf and visit the bedbugs. a lot of bedbugs. a lot of bedbugs. but once again, the real value, the real travesty is the millions of dollars of media impressions they will get. david mentioned the most interesting point of all on the doral thing. there are only two presidential suites and there are going to be eight leaders of foreign countries. so you re going to have at least eight leaders of foreign countries trying to get into one of those suites by implicating joe biden, it s a cash grab in there. and we do know if putin is invited he will get the better suite than trump. donald will go boss, what suite do you want and i ll take the next one. all right. david farenthold, thank you so much pptd we really appreciate your reporting. great reporting. it is just past the top of the hour on this friday, october 18th. mike barnicle ar jonathan la rear area donny deutsch in a red
first just stepping back to mitt romney for a second, joe, last week i talked about although he had been the one that had said, you know, this is wrong, i kind of was hoping to take it to that next step. and he certainly did. he s an american hero and to these other republicans that doesn t understand how his triple judge guys, this is the formula. not the cowardness formula. jay, i listened and steve rattner probably has over the last two years to so many people justify phi his support for trump. he s got israel. no, he s not. this is the worst thing that any president has done for israel in my lifetime. they are so much more vulnerable now than they have ever been. i would like every moron that has always used the israel defense to understand what is at stake here. yeah. and ed made a great point before when he talked about, you know, they say it s night and they re saying it s day. what trump is doing is the textbook definition of gas lighting. what we are seeing right before our
saying right there. all he s done is he s given cowards in the united states congress a chance to say the president s working out a deal when, in fact, it s not a ceasefire. the turks aren t calling it a ceasefire. we aren t calling it a ceasefire. it s just stopping this kill and the slaughter and the ethnic cleansing of the kurds for a few days. two sort of competing images running through my head watching trump yesterday say those things. the first was it was like an oscar awards ceremony and he was receiving the prize. he d like to thank the kurds, he d like to thank the turks, like to thank the russians, he d like to thank his parents for making this possible, the choreographers. it was just an extraordinary, hey, this is a great day for civilization. which was wro a competing image running through my head, i think
and, gene robinson, final thoughts go to you, your piece in the washington post. the headline is trump is spinning out of control. we must stop pretending otherwise what do we do? well, what do we do? i mean, with all of this that s going around, all that we ve talked about this morning over just the last couple of days is incredible. and you look at the president and look at his performance on wednesday, it seems like weeks ago. on wednesday that meeting with the white house, with the congressional leaders, look at that letter that he sent to erdogan. he is increasingly frantic and unhinged. i agree with steve rattner that there is a sense of walls closing in and him lashing out in crazy ways. and i have to worry and i think everyone should worry that this is just going to get worse. there is no bottom here.