{"id":387200,"date":"2018-11-30T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-ditches-headset-after-technical-difficulties-at-g20-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:21:23","slug":"trump-ditches-headset-after-technical-difficulties-at-g20-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-ditches-headset-after-technical-difficulties-at-g20-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ditches headset after technical difficulties at G20 \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.11\/thumbnail\/5c0144e5dda4c8dc228b45a1.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Trump had barely arrived at the G20 summit in Argentina before the gaffes began. Listening to a greeting from Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, Trump ditched his translation headset, apparently due to technical difficulties.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The leaders, who know each other personally from their days in the business world, greeted each other like old friends at Macri\u2019s executive mansion, Casa Rosada, but technical difficulties threatened to throw cold water on the warm meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A problem with Trump\u2019s live translation \u2013 delivered via headset \u2013 frustrated the president, who removed his headset and ditched it on the floor. <em>&#8220;I understood him better in his language than in my &#8216;interpretation,'&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op1syRUnrSo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An aide rushed in and scooped up the malfunctioning earpiece, and things moved on as normal.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be talking about lots of good things for Argentina and for the United States, including trade, including military purchases and other things,\u201d<\/em> Trump said, adding that the conversation would be <em>\u201ca little bit old times, about 95 percent business.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Macri, Trump ceremonially signed a new trade deal with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto. The United States Mexico Canada Agreement is a trilateral trade pact that replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), described by Trump as the <em>\u201csingle worst deal ever approved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s schedule of meetings has been altered in recent days. Trump has cancelled a head-to-head meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ostensibly in light of a naval clash between Russian and Ukrainian ships last weekend. Meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have been downgraded to informal \u2018pull-asides\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arrived in Argentina with a very busy two days planned. Important meetings scheduled throughout. Our great Country is extremely well represented. Will be very productive!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1068346689784696833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/445246-trump-g20-headset-translation\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump had barely arrived at the G20 summit in Argentina before the gaffes began. Listening to a greeting from Argentinian President Mauricio Macri, Trump ditched his translation headset, apparently due to technical difficulties. The leaders, who know each other personally from their days in the business world, greeted each other like old friends at Macri\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}