Dit verhaal is toch echt ook een pareltje, lijkt een beetje op het gedrag dat pubers ook wel hebben : constant willen chatten met de maten, ook om 4u 's nachts.
Snapt Trump het concept van tijdzones niet of denkt hij dat dat fake news is?
Trump reportedly tries to call world leaders at odd hours and has to be reminded of different time zones on a 'constant basis'
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Trump reportedly tries to call world leaders at odd hours and has to be reminded of different time zones on a 'constant basis'
President Donald Trump reportedly has to be reminded of differences in time zones on a "constant basis" as he impulsively attempts to call other world leaders, a diplomatic source told Politico.
Trump apparently isn't "great at recognizing" that an older world leader might not be awake "or in the right place at 10:30 or 11 p.m. their time."
The president also "randomly" calls other world leaders without specific topics to discuss, leaving them confused as to why he reached out, a former national-security official told Politico, adding that Trump has a particularly "bizarre" interest in French President Emmanuel Macron.
Trump "wanted to talk to him constantly," the official said, adding that "Macron would be like: 'Hey, what are we talking about?'"
The official added: "These are very busy people. You don't just call to check in."
A White House official told the publication that Macron had requested most of the calls with Trump.
Past presidents were also known to call their global counterparts at awkward hours, but Trump has reportedly consistently done so without fully preparing for their conversations, exhausting and annoying foreign aides and diplomats in the process.
Even when Trump does prepare for meetings or conversations with other foreign leaders, there's apparently quite a learning curve — for example, he referred to Nepal as "nipple" and Bhutan as "button" as aides prepped him for a meeting with India's prime minister, Politico reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the meeting.
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