‘Even if It Requires Pushing and Shoving Your Way to the Front’
During a meeting of NATO members Thursday morning cameras caught U.S. President Donald Trump grabbing the elbow of fellow NATO leader Milo Äukanović, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, and literally shoving him aside in an apparent attempt to move in front of him, which he then did. Montenegro is the newest member nation of NATO.
Here it is in slow-motion:
The video spread fast through social media, with some news outlets attempting to place a less damaging spin on the event.
NBC Nightly News for instance explained in a tweet that Trump “places his hand on a fellow NATO leader and moves him aside to return to the front of the group of leaders in Brussels.”
But others on Twitter offered a far different take:
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