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Brits bemused as Trump's first call to PM descends into rant about fat foxes: report
Trump’s Bird Tale Is a Power Move, Not a JokeThe Actual StoryAccording to the BBC report, Trump used his first call with Keir Starmer to veer from wind turbines into a grotesque fantasy about birds and obese foxes, while Starmer’s aides struggled not to laugh. That is the surface incident. The political story is simpler: the president of the United States was using an allied leader’s first major contact as a stage for nonsense, dominance, and fossil-fuel propaganda.Who Holds PowerTrump is the actor with institutional reach here. Starmer was taking the call; Trump was setting the terms of…
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