Watch Out Instead for the TPP: US Obama Intentionally Mispronounces LKY's Name

Update 5 Aug Fri:

Politics & money.  Domination. Monopoly. TPP.  Reading about it, it's just like the Euro & Brexit. Now, they are doing it again with the TPP. No wonder the US refuses to join it. It's impossible to force the same regulations on different nations.  It ties up too many hands & causes collapse.

Obama insulting SG's PM has valid reason/s.  That being the case, Obama throwing a red carpet for the SG PM is actually gracious considering Congress & the American people are against the TPP.  Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Actually, reading about the TPP,  the mispronunciation is no longer an issue. Forget about it. What is important, what everyone should be worrying about is the TPP.

I hope the US rejects it.  Don't sign it. Intellectual property rights compromised & other plans that is going to sweep across 12 nations. Be very afraid.

I hope the TPP will just stop as an idea & don't go any further.


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Describing Singapore’s progress, Obama said, “In less than a generation, under the vision and stewardship of Prime Minister Lee Kew, er, Wan, er, Lee, Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporeans transformed their nation from third world to first.”

The US president chuckled at his mistake, while Lee briefly glanced away.

It's so obviously done on purpose, for amusement & insult. Even the reporter disrespectfully calls SG's PM "Lee".  And our PM did nothing to pay back in kind? Just glanced away?

Where's the verbal fire that our PMs are so good at?

Why don't Obama mispronounce the Japanese PM's name? Or how about North Korea's leader's name? Or Russia's President's name?

Singapore is a nobody to the USA.  Without even reading the article, after I told my bro just the headlines, he said Obama did it intentionally.  Asked why our PM went to the US to be looked down on. 

Firstly because SG has nothing to offer the US. Secondly, the past incidents of LKY lawsuits against the international newspapers are not forgotten together with that super big incident many years ago over Michael Fay. Third, because SG talks as if it's so great.

Not surprising Obama made that "gaffe". He's not that good anyway. Looks sleazy. What has he done for his country? Shootings everywhere. Bloody wild place with mad people.

I'm not siding with my SG's PMs. But can't Obama even be gracious enough to properly host another head of state?  Are we supposed to be embarrassed or is Obama & the US people supposed to be embarrassed? Makes me think that Trump might be more suitable.

The mispronounciation is reported as a "small gaffe".

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-president-obama-mispronounces-lee-kuan-yews-000002356.html


Compare this "small gaffe" to how carefully the US treated the visit of Saudi Arabia's crown prince recently. Certainly, no mispronounciation of the crown prince's name there.

Although the crown prince (Mohammed bin Salman) is still only a deputy (possibly the next King), he was invited to the Oval Office, out of respect & kiss-ass to the King (& the oil).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-host-powerful-saudi-prince-white-house-174434748.html

The White House said Prince Mohammed's meeting with Obama will take place in the Oval Office -- a rare honor for a non-head of state, one not afforded to the Dalai Lama earlier in the week.

Little is certain about the inner workings of the House of Saud, but the prince's high public profile has led many to speculate that he could be the next on the throne, rather than designated Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.

"He is notionally number three in the hierarchy, but effectively he's number one," said Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute, a think tank focused on the Middle East.

"The King prefers his son and wants his son to be king," said Henderson.