Asked whether a potential meeting would take place in the US or in a different place, Trump replied, “I don’t know. I haven’t really heard too much about it.” He continued, “I didn’t suggest it [a meeting], but some people have suggested it.”
“If it happened, it would be happening. I’d be respectful.” White House correspondent Peter Doocy, co-anchor of The Sunday Briefing for Fox News, then asked the president, “Do you think because Epic Fury killed his dad and his wife and his kid that he has hard feelings?”
Trump said, “Well, I would say I’m not his favorite person, but with that being said, he’s probably a professional. In some circles he has a very good reputation, actually.”
Goddamm I need to get this phrase hotkeyed on my keyboard with how often I need to say it to people online who don’t know how spread out the US is.
Our 5 largest cities have a nighttime pop of 1:20 of the total population. In Germany that figure is over 1:10 and in France and UK it’s more like 1:5.
The largest city in the US is NYC with a nighttime population of 2.5% of the total US population, that same figure for France is 3.1%, in Germany, almost 1:20 Germans live in Berlin alone and in the UK 135:1,000 live in just London.
The US has a very small urban population for its size. This isn’t to mention that the two largest cities are separated by a 2,000 mile desert and border two different oceans. The only way to congregate most Americans is through the Herculean task of mobilizing the suburbs, which has had some success (No Kings Day is the largest nonviolent protest in history), but is still much harder than rallying in more urbanocentric European countries.