Group Photo: NATO Leaders, Please Look To Your Left

July 11, 2018 Donald Trump, Idiocracy

At today’s NATO summit in Brussels, the west’s gathered leaders turned their head in unison to watch a military flyover. But for a brief moment, US president Donald Trump’s attention drifted elsewhere. The resulting photo is an almost too perfect symbol for the tenor of the meeting. Ahead of his arrival, Trump had attacked the other members of the 29-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization for contributing too little to the group’s common defense. At the meeting, he described Germany as a “captive of Russia.”

This photo is the perfect metaphor. Donald Trump clearly sees the world the wrong way when compared to other NATO leaders. Is it because he’s a moron, because Putin tells him to or a mixture of both? pic.twitter.com/RRGCN0Hw70

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 11, 2018

2018 NATO Summit at NATO headquarters on July 11, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Photo by Sean Gallup for Getty Images pic.twitter.com/sV8srf6psm

— Amanda Golden (@amandawgolden) July 11, 2018