Why Google thinks Donald Trump is an "Idiot"?
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NEW DELHI - Donald Trump loves attention, but he might want to look away. The POTUS will be particularly offended by the latest images Google throws up. The man who calls himself a ‘Stable Genius’, is now popping up whenever one types ‘Idiot’.
This has happened because protesters and activists have been gaming Google algorithm to make Trump images pop up. This began when British demonstrators used the Green Day hit *American Idiot* as their anthem to mock Trump during his recent visit to the UK. Now more users are using that online association by up-voting a picture of the word ‘idiot’ on Reddit.
At the time of writing 8 of the ten images on Google show Trump. Earlier, in 2009, searching for Michelle Obama would give ape-like images, and searching Bill Clinton before the 2016 US elections would give pictures of Bill Clinton.
In 2015 in India, searching for ‘stupid’ threw up images of PM Modi link searching for Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic during the World Cup final often threw up fake pictures of her wearing a bikini. link
The White House struggled on Wednesday to contain a political outcry and confusion over U.S. President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States.
Trump, facing uproar over his failure to confront Putin over Russia's 2016 U.S. election meddling, adopted his usual defiant posture two days after their Helsinki summit and called his critics deranged.
Asked by a journalist before a morning Cabinet meeting whether Russia was still targeting the United States, Trump looked at the reporter, shook his head and said, "No."
At a later briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the president was saying "no" to answering questions, not to the question itself.U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia's efforts to undermine elections are continuing and now target the Nov. 6 congressional races. Sanders said Trump believes the threat from Russia to undermine those elections still exists.
Asked later in an interview with CBS News whether he held Putin personally responsible for meddling in the 2016 election, Trump said he did. "Well, I would, because he's in charge of the country. Just like I consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country," he said. The U.S. president said that in his talks with Putin, he was "very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that." But Trump also appeared to question whether such statements would have an impact on Russia. "We're also living in a grown-up world," he said.
Sanders explanation of Trump's "No" was the second time since Monday's summit that Trump and the White House have blamed a misstatement or misunderstanding for the furore over Russia.On Tuesday, Trump said he misspoke at a Helsinki news conference with Putin and that he accepted intelligence agency conclusions about Russian election meddling, although he hedged by deviating from his prepared notes to say "it could be other people also. There's a lot of people out there."
Trump stunned the world on Monday by shying away from criticizing the Russian leader for Moscow's actions to undermine the election, sparking bipartisan fury at home and prompting calls by some U.S. lawmakers for tougher sanctions and other actions to punish Russia.
Critics have accused Trump of siding with Russia over his own country by failing to criticise Moscow for what U.S. intelligence agencies last year described as Russia's election interference in an attempt to sow discord, aid Trump's candidacy and disparage Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.Putin has denied the allegations.
'DOING VERY WELL'"We're doing very well, probably as well as anybody has ever done with Russia. And there's been no president ever as tough as I have been on Russia," Trump said before the Cabinet meeting, adding that Putin "understands it and he's not happy about it."
In a series of early morning Twitter posts, the Republican president said the summit would eventually produce "big results" and accused his critics of "Trump Derangement Syndrome.""Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome!" the president wrote.U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told a congressional committee in February he already had seen evidence Russia was targeting November's elections when Republican control of the House of Representatives and Senate is at stake.
In rebutting Trump's dismissive comments about U.S. intelligence on Monday, Coats said, "We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy."Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said Trump needed to wake up to Russia's efforts to interfere in American elections.
"We won't be able, as a nation, to fight back against foreign interference in our elections if the Commander in Chief doesn't even acknowledge that it's a real problem," Schumer said in a statement.Republican Senator John McCain accused Trump of "playing right into Putin's hands" with the president's comments in a Fox News interview on Tuesday that appeared to question the American commitment to defend all NATO allies.
