NEW DELHI – Donald Trump loves attention, but he might want to look away.The POTUS will be particularly offended by the latest images Google throwsup. The man who calls himself a ‘Stable Genius’, is now popping up wheneverone types ‘Idiot’.
This has happened because protesters and activists have been gaming Googlealgorithm to make Trump images pop up. This began when Britishdemonstrators used the Green Day hit *American Idiot* as their anthem tomock Trump during his recent visit to the UK. Now more users are using thatonline 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, andsearching Bill Clinton before the 2016 US elections would give pictures ofBill Clinton.
In 2015 in India, searching for ‘stupid’ threw up images of PM Modilinksearching for Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic during the WorldCup final often threw up fake pictures of her wearing a bikini.link
The White House struggled on Wednesday to contain a political outcry andconfusion over U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longertargeting the United States.
Trump, facing uproar over his failure to confront Putin over Russia’s 2016U.S. election meddling, adopted his usual defiant posture two days aftertheir Helsinki summit and called his critics deranged.
Asked by a journalist before a morning Cabinet meeting whether Russia wasstill targeting the United States, Trump looked at the reporter, shook hishead and said, “No.”
At a later briefing, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said thepresident was saying “no” to answering questions, not to the questionitself.U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia’s efforts to undermineelections are continuing and now target the Nov. 6 congressional races.Sanders said Trump believes the threat from Russia to undermine thoseelections still exists.
Asked later in an interview with CBS News whether he held Putin personallyresponsible for meddling in the 2016 election, Trump said he did. “Well, Iwould, because he’s in charge of the country. Just like I consider myselfto be responsible for things that happen in this country,” he said. TheU.S. president said that in his talks with Putin, he was “very strong onthe fact that we can’t have meddling, we can’t have any of that.” But Trumpalso appeared to question whether such statements would have an impact onRussia. “We’re also living in a grown-up world,” he said.
Sanders explanation of Trump’s “No” was the second time since Monday’ssummit that Trump and the White House have blamed a misstatement ormisunderstanding for the furore over Russia.On Tuesday, Trump said hemisspoke at a Helsinki news conference with Putin and that he acceptedintelligence agency conclusions about Russian election meddling, althoughhe hedged by deviating from his prepared notes to say “it could be otherpeople also. There’s a lot of people out there.”
Trump stunned the world on Monday by shying away from criticizing theRussian leader for Moscow’s actions to undermine the election, sparkingbipartisan fury at home and prompting calls by some U.S. lawmakers fortougher sanctions and other actions to punish Russia.
Critics have accused Trump of siding with Russia over his own country byfailing to criticise Moscow for what U.S. intelligence agencies last yeardescribed as Russia’s election interference in an attempt to sow discord,aid Trump’s candidacy and disparage Trump’s Democratic opponent HillaryClinton.Putin has denied the allegations.
‘DOING VERY WELL'”We’re doing very well, probably as well as anybody hasever done with Russia. And there’s been no president ever as tough as Ihave been on Russia,” Trump said before the Cabinet meeting, adding thatPutin “understands it and he’s not happy about it.”
In a series of early morning Twitter posts, the Republican president saidthe summit would eventually produce “big results” and accused his criticsof “Trump Derangement Syndrome.””Some people HATE the fact that I got alongwell with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than seethis. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!” the president wrote.U.S.Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told a congressional committeein February he already had seen evidence Russia was targeting November’selections when Republican control of the House of Representatives andSenate 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 inthe 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine ourdemocracy.”Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said Trump needed to wake upto Russia’s efforts to interfere in American elections.
“We won’t be able, as a nation, to fight back against foreign interferencein our elections if the Commander in Chief doesn’t even acknowledge thatit’s a real problem,” Schumer said in a statement.Republican Senator JohnMcCain accused Trump of “playing right into Putin’s hands” with thepresident’s comments in a Fox News interview on Tuesday that appeared toquestion the American commitment to defend all NATO allies.