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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he plans to visit Ireland as he welcomed the country’s prime minister to the White House on Thursday.
Trump greeted Leo Varadkar — the recently elected Irish leader or Taoiseach — for the country’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day visit. Asked if he would visit Ireland, Trump said “I will. I love it.” He offered no further details.
Trump said the two countries had an “outstanding relationship.”
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Stella's Place 
As an Irishman, I doubt the sincerity of Trump’s comments.
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You don’t live in Ireland, do you?
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I’ve just moved to Canada, but I was born in Ireland and lived there all my life.
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Why do you doubt his sincerity? You do realize that this ceremony is held every year, no matter who the President is.
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Yes, I know it’s held every year. There is always a huge fuss made about it in Ireland.
I doubt Trump for a few reasons. Number 1, I think Trump is an inherent bullshitter. 2, he has zero reason to go to Ireland, other than to check on the status of his golf course. 3, he was invited to Ireland by our last Taoiseach and didn’t come. 4, he probably recognises that he wouldn’t receive the warmest of welcomes.
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Well, everyone has an opinion, and you know what they say about that.
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He may well come, he has another 2 and a half years.
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Look, whether or not you think he’s being straight, the President was gracious at an official public event. Should he have insulted the Irish?
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I never said he wasn’t gracious. I was simply making a comment that it seemed disingenuous.
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Again, did you expect him to be insulting on a public occasion?
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Obviously not.
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He may well go, you are not in Ireland.
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What does me not being in Ireland have to do with it?
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It’s obvious. President Trump will GO to Ireland (where you are not) from North America (where you are), just as you CAME to North America.
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Sorry Stella I didn’t realize that you explained it to him I was answering posts in the sidebar.
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I do that all the time!
PS: I used North America instead of Canada for a reason.
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Come to Ireland is something a person in Ireland would say, go to Ireland is something a person in Canada should say. Simple.
Words people choose tell you a lot about the person using them 😉.
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My house was painted two years ago with Benjamin Moore Paint (owned by Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway…a total BSer) here in Dallas. The paint peeled off almost immediately, and we replaced it with much better quality Sherwin Williams Paint made in Cleveland. Benjamin Moore, IMO, is a worthless can of tinted goo.
But, heck, I am just a homeowner who loves The USA and President Trump…what do I know.
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BTW, my ancestors were born in Dublin, and luckily were able to leave in 1640 to come to North America and help build a democratic republic of wonderful people….after we got rid of British Rule…
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Sounds like you should have just done your research in the first place.
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The Benjamin Moore salesman was a liar and BS artist….so I cannot ever trust Benjamin Moore stuff or folks….
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Why did you need to consult a salesman to buy paint?
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I failed to notice that he was a former Irish Peasant living in Canada at the time, and he proceeded to educate me on all his phoney baloney stuff…..so, as a basically trusting US Consumer, I bought his product…..But NOW, I am wiser and more experienced. That comes with age, observation and analysis of true demonstrable facts, and giving up on wild emotional belief and opinionated blather attempting to show my brilliance, while actually demonstrating lack of wisdom and intelligent expectation of discourse culture among adults as practiced by conservatives in the patriotic citizens of the USA….a concept lost among British Colonials and French Loyalists that were never brave or wise enough to demand and fight for the individual freedom that was given them by God, but denied them by monarchs, and wasted upon a bunch of sheep who were neither brave nor dedicated enough to their own families or selves to stand up and be free.
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So the bottom line is that you have an emotional view of President Trump’s words not a logical reasoned point from which to view his statement. You admit down thread that President Trump was gracious but you simply feel that he was disingenuous with his words.
Put a logical argument behind your feelings and a reasonable discussion can be had but if you are just here to talk about your feelings, then your words are no more a starting point for intellectual reasonable dialogue than a person saying that a puppy is cute and gives them the warm fuzzies.
We all have feelings, many 3 year olds feel that Santa Claus is absolutely terrific, feelings can be lovely.
I feel that you are silly.
See.
You can’t argue for or against feelings they simply are personal emotional attachments.
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Whoops, make that upthread Benjamin 🙂 !
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What a disproportionately aggravated response.
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Actually, her response is completely logical. What reason(s) have you given to explain your position other than what you think and feel? The closest to a concrete reason that you came up with is that President Trump didn’t visit Ireland after being invited in the past. That is no indication of what he may do in the future. Did he promise to go to Ireland in the past? I don’t know. Do you?
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“disproportionately aggravated” seems actually to be vocabulary beyond the expected lack of wisdom coming from a chronic malcontent and hyper-critical foreigner. Whoopie doo.
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famous Canadian wise philosopher:
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You are a sad, angry man.
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who are you to cast opinions on me. you do not know me. you may have opinions about politics, law, society, and partisan politics and gender issues…but you cannot merely render psych opinions unless you are a professional doctor having held a one on one consultation with a person.
that seems to taint your postings, frankly.
I am a happy, 76 year old US Citizen, taxpayer, successful parent of four adult children and two grandchildren from those issues, and a Christian. I am also educated and a retired CEO turnaround manager.
What are your creds other than a picture of some very young unshaven white male you use as an avatar?
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Actually he’s more silly than sad and angry – and he’s messin’ with you. They do stuff like that in Texas.
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Be casually racist?
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What was racist? Referring to you as a foreigner? You are.
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your Son of Gotham postings show some naive and ill informed comments perhaps influenced from possible over exposure to and reliance upon the comics as information sources. consistent however with age and experience probabilities.
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Thank you, Joshua. I welcome all criticism of my work, positive or negative.
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Eh, “casually racist” ? what on earth are you going on about?
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silly is an earned benefit of survival to an advance adult age, in Texas.
we still Remember the Alamo and Goliad here.
Some foreign comments and flag waving sorta triggers our need to comment a tad.
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The Taoiseach has issued a rallying call for the ‘American Dream’ ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump today, saying the dream of freedom, opportunity and hope for all citizens – regardless of race, gender, sexuality or religion – must survive.
Leo Varadkar’s remarks – which drew on his personal experience of growing up gay with an Indian father – will likely be seen as strong criticism of the stance taken by Mr Trump and his vice president, Mike Pence, on various social issues, including LGBT rights and migration.
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I suspect the Trump administration WILL visit with Irish trade representatives very soon.
Whether Trump himself has a need to do so, is not actually material…he merely said he likes the Irish People…whatever that group consists of as it has been volatile for decades.
Re Trade…
Ireland’s economy, while relatively small, is modern and trade-focused. Industrial activity is focused on pharmaceuticals, chemicals, computer hardware and software, food products, beverages and brewing, and medical devices. Ireland’s low rate of corporation tax has seen many multinational companies relocate to Ireland in recent years, particularly in the IT and pharmaceutical sectors. Ireland’s principal export markets are the United States, the UK and Belgium.
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borrowed from next door poster:
Always good to celebrate the long standing and exceptionally DEEP ties between Ireland and America. That being said, this particular Taoiseac (Ireland’s Prime Minister) is a certified globalist committed to flooding Ireland with immigrants from Africa and the Middle East producing all the same problems you find all over Europe. He fails to show any interest or concern for the opinions of the Irish people on this subject. In the cause of “diversity”, I have a modest proposal. Wouldn’t it be much more economical to move a whole bunch of white people to these countries that have few, if any? I suggest we start with this guy and the majority of the Dail (Irish Parliament), followed by Merkel, Macron and the majority of Brussels bureaucrats. They can then teach the locals of Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gambia, The Congo and similar nations, what a wonderful boon cultural diversity is without having to dislocate them. I am sure the residents of those countries will be every bit as grateful and welcoming of Western Culture as we have been of theirs. Whose in??
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