c/belgium · by bossito@lemmy.world · 216d

Trump compared to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ amid Greenland row at Davos by Belgian PM

https://news.meaww.com/belgian-pm-bart-de-wever-likens-trump-to-very-hungry-caterpillar-amid-greenland-row-at-davos

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 216d (3 replies)

Can we just give him another reality show and make him go away?

Honytawk@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 216d (2 replies)

Like a truman show where he gets to be dictator of a fake country, and everything gets filmed for entertainment.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d

Win-win, I’d say.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 216d

Do it all at maro largo. And he'll never eant to leave. Keep printing out fake reports and actors to be i. The room. He wont read it and fall asleep anyway.

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 216d

I can't wait to see what kind of beautiful Schmetterling he becomes!

ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 216d

Hopefully we can avoid the "7 nuclear missiles" -part...

Honytawk@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 216d (2 replies)

I don't really like De Wevers policies, he is too much economical right for me.

But damn it if I don't respect him as a politician.

He refused to work together with the fascist party called Vlaams Belang, even if his party was second in place to be the most right wing party in the country. Would even rather work together with socialists than the extreme right. Even LGBTQ+ rights are non-negotiable to him.

benvars@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d

Yeah, i'm generally not a fan of him, but i agree.

Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 215d

The interests he's defending internationally are the same he's defending nationally (an regionally) - so I wouldn't cheer too much.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 216d

“My feeling is that the sweet-talking is over. You reach the point where sweet-talking and sweet-talking is counterproductive,” De Wever said. “It only encourages them to go a step further – it’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”

Cute. No politician has actually said Hitler -Chamberlain.

myrmidex@belgae.social · 2 pts · 216d (1 reply)

All those expensive new planes rendered ineffective with one snarky comment.

bossito@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d

As a main holder of US bonds Belgium can also make the dollar worthless.. it's a lose-lose game of course, but we won't go down alone.