You're just not going to be able to find a Belgian of stature willing to go on record agreeing that all of Brussels is a "hellhole." Is there an American that would have agreed with that statement about New York after 9/11?
His shit about no go zones is stupid too. Molenbeek has some nice areas, but isn't too unlike a sketchy neighborhood in any large US city. Great hummus there and only a few blocks from a square filled with a couple of my favorite restaurants. They don't blow up their neighborhoods, so you're really only in danger of getting robbed. The difference with the US is that in Compton or Overtown there aren't a subset of immigrants that want to blow shit up and murder everyone in the nice parts of town, they just want to sell drugs and rob you. Europe hasn't taken the threat as seriously as they should, and this won't change anything.
Trump absolutely has a point about NATO and our European "allies." They talked a big game after Paris but haven't done shit in Libya or Syria. It isn't too different from what Obama just said about our Middle Eastern friends a few weeks ago. We're subsidizing the security of half of the world and don't get anything in return.
Luckily everyone I work with is ok and they didn't hit my neighborhood (I live in Brussels and am in the process of rotating back to the US).
Trump definitely should have chosen a better word or phrase than "hellhole". And you're exactly right, no Belgian is going to agree with that.
He is definitely unpolished with his rhetoric, but the underlying message is truthful
Other words outside of hellhole don't get media attention.
You're just not going to be able to find a Belgian of stature willing to go on record agreeing that all of Brussels is a "hellhole." Is there an American that would have agreed with that statement about New York after 9/11?
His shit about no go zones is stupid too. Molenbeek has some nice areas, but isn't too unlike a sketchy neighborhood in any large US city. Great hummus there and only a few blocks from a square filled with a couple of my favorite restaurants. They don't blow up their neighborhoods, so you're really only in danger of getting robbed. The difference with the US is that in Compton or Overtown there aren't a subset of immigrants that want to blow shit up and murder everyone in the nice parts of town, they just want to sell drugs and rob you. Europe hasn't taken the threat as seriously as they should, and this won't change anything.
Trump absolutely has a point about NATO and our European "allies." They talked a big game after Paris but haven't done shit in Libya or Syria. It isn't too different from what Obama just said about our Middle Eastern friends a few weeks ago. We're subsidizing the security of half of the world and don't get anything in return.
Luckily everyone I work with is ok and they didn't hit my neighborhood (I live in Brussels and am in the process of rotating back to the US).
Trump definitely should have chosen a better word or phrase than "hellhole". And you're exactly right, no Belgian is going to agree with that.
He is definitely unpolished with his rhetoric, but the underlying message is truthful
Other words outside of hellhole don't get media attention.
So are you saying that Trump may be a media whore?
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