Trump has delivered brutal body blows to the gobbledegook of diplomatese.
By ET Bureau |
Agencies
US President Donald Trump.
If any top leader is fighting to cut through the incomprehensible and impenetrable gobbledegook of international diplomatic jargon, it is the inimitable US President Donald Trump, going by his latest observations after the Hanoi meeting with North Korean supremo Kim Jong-un.
Not even former President George W Bush has made the kind of inroads into the thicket of diplomatese as the current Potus. No leader has described the India-Pakistan relationship thus, “Pakistan and India have been going at it and we have been involved in trying to have them stop….” The less informed would have been left legitimately wondering about the exact nature of this impassioned subcontinental engagement even as diplomats cringed at the graphic clarity of the US president’s mind.
Even his assessment of the chubby North Korean leader was delightfully factual: there can be no doubt that he is “quite a character”. His earlier description of Kim as a ‘rocket man’ was an even sharper deviation from jargon.
Venturing into uncharted international waters in this manner is perhaps his way of following through on what he told the UN General Assembly last year, “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy.” They, in turn, are still awaiting an explanatory note on his 2018 comment that he and Kim “fell in love”.
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(Text: Viandra D'souza)
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