A small group of European diplomats have reportedly been playing word Bingo with Trump's oft-repeated adjectives
President Trump once vowed that he would put an end to "other leaders and other countries … laughing at us," a promise that so far remains unfulfilled, BuzzFeed News reports. Conversations with six European diplomats revealed that behind Trump's back, he is openly mocked by the higher-ups of the international community:
On one level, the officials said, [Trump] is something of a laughing stock among Europeans at international gatherings. One revealed that a small group of diplomats play a version of word Bingo whenever the president speaks because they consider his vocabulary to be so limited. "Everything is 'great', 'very, very great', 'amazing'," the diplomat said. [BuzzFeed News]
"We can hear everything," said one diplomat. "It's weird."
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