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    Default Trump ignores listening to Italian translation, no respect!

    Of course, that's basically what one knucklehead wrote on twitter. Then others ran with it like the dummies they are. And it was all false - as in the earpiece was simply in the other ear.

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    Looks Like The Media Spread Another False Story About Trump

    A BBC reporter kicked off an international firestorm Saturday morning when he claimed that Trump chose not to listen to a translation as Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni was speaking at the G7 summit.

    BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale tweeted a “short clip that sums up” the summit, attaching a video he claimed showed Trump had “chosen not to hear a translation of his Italian host’s speech.” From the clip Landale tweeted, Trump appeared to be the only world leader not listening to a translation through headphones.

    (Twitter video on site, or click here - https://twitter.com/BBCJLandale/stat...18708502441986 )

    Journalists around the world quickly ran with the story that Trump was snubbing his foreign counterparts, using the one tweet as evidence. Landale’s tweet, meanwhile, was quickly shared thousands of times across Twitter.

    “Trump obviously speaks fluent Italian so there is no need for headphones for translation,” Huffington Post politics editor Sam Stein snarked.

    UK newspaper The Mirror ran a story titled “Donald Trump ‘caught pretending to listen’ at G7 summit – after crucial mistake ‘gives him away'” that was based entirely off of Landale’s tweet.

    German newspaper Der Spiegal ran a similar story, claiming Trump was disinterested in what Gentiloni had to say. The evidence for that story, too, consisted of Landale’s one tweet.

    There’s just one problem: Trump was listening to the speech through an earpiece in his right ear, according to press secretary Sean Spicer. “As usual [President Trump] wears a single ear piece for translation in his right ear,” Spicer said on Twitter.

    In other photos from the summit, Trump can indeed be seen wearing an earpiece in his right ear.



    http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/27/lo...y-about-trump/
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    I saw this earlier. Italian media debunked it immediately. Many Italians (including my anti-Trump former roommate in Milan) were impressed by the respect that Trump showed Italian dignitaries on his visit.

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    You know what the media are? Bullies. No better than the middle school they often decry.
    After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown

    “Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
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