{"id":34202,"date":"2017-07-10T06:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34202"},"modified":"2017-07-10T06:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:17:28","slug":"australian-journalists-trump-teardown-goes-viral-amid-interest-in-g-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/australian-journalists-trump-teardown-goes-viral-amid-interest-in-g-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Australian Journalist’s Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Journalist’s Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Australian Journalist’s Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20:- In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump\u2019s performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

The journalist, Chris Uhlmann, said in a segment originally broadcast on the program \u201cInsiders,\u201d that Mr. Trump was an \u201cuneasy, lonely, awkward figure\u201d at the meeting and that the president \u201chas no desire and no capacity to lead the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The video immediately took hold on social media, and by Sunday morning had been viewed more than a million times on Twitter and Facebook \u2014 further emphasizing how viral videos, once reserved for cute kitties and humorous mishaps, have become increasingly political, and that interest in these gatherings of world leaders is no longer just for policy wonks.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the Facebook page for Occupy Democrats, a leftist advocacy group, the video has received nearly one million views.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another viral moment from the gathering, this one a GIF, appears to show Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who hosted this year\u2019s event, rolling her eyes at President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. One tweet alone \u2014 accompanied by the words \u201cMansplaining, G20 style\u201d \u2014 has about 82,000 retweets and 166,0000 likes.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Google data on this year\u2019s G-20 conference is still being calculated, search interest in the United States appears to have surged compared with past years; interest in the G-20 had been weak since 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Mr. Trump spurred more interest in the conference as it approached, dominating the G-20 in Google queries in the run-up to the gathering.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the event unfolded, Mr. Trump\u2019s name continued to lead global searches in Google, even as queries for other world leaders rose and fell.<\/span><\/p>\n

In part, the uptick is quite likely because Americans are now exposed to foreign perspectives as social streams cross during global summits.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the \u201cInsiders\u201d video, Mr. Uhlmann, the politics editor at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the country\u2019s main public broadcaster, assessed Mr. Trump in bold and brash terms. His commentary would be out of line for American journalists, who are supposed to strive for objectivity and to keep opinions to the editorial pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did we learn?\u201d Mr. Uhlmann asked about Mr. Trump\u2019s stint at the conference. \u201cWe learned that Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a global leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, another harsh critique of Mr. Trump, also delivered via video, went viral. The Irish Labour senator Aodhan O\u2019Riordain condemned the results of the United States election, calling the then president-elect a \u201cfascist.\u201d It has been viewed 3.3 million times on the senator\u2019s Facebook page alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Domestic leaders like Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, have gained traction by using pointed language toward Mr. Trump as well. She called him \u201ca weak & impotent leader\u201d in a July 6 tweet that was liked more than 54,000 times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/09\/us\/trump-g20-viral-australian-journalist.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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