Article snippet: In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump’s performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany. The journalist, Chris Uhlmann, said in a segment originally broadcast on the program “Insiders,” that Mr. Trump was an “uneasy, lonely, awkward figure” at the meeting and that the president “has no desire and no capacity to lead the world.” The video immediately took hold on social media, and by Sunday morning had been viewed more than a million times on Twitter and Facebook — 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. On the Facebook page for Occupy Democrats, a leftist advocacy group, the video has received nearly one million views. Another viral moment from the gathering, this one a GIF, appears to show Chancellor One tweet alone — accompanied by the words “Mansplaining, G20 style” — has about 82,000 retweets and 166,0000 likes. While Google data on this year’s 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. 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 ... Link to the full article to read more
Australian Journalist’s Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20 - The New York Times
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