Mr. Smith got caught once before with his foot in his mouth and backpedaled fully and immediately. I don’t remember right now what he said, exactly, but I do remember thinking his apology was graceful and well-said.
The way I read him, he’s one of those type personalities who just wants to be loved by everyone and doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings – which accounts for his world-wide popularity as much as his undoubted talent. To someone like that, it *would* be tough being around snarky Yurps who are going to sense that as a weakness and beat him around the head and shoulders with their BDS.
He just needs to toughen up when he goes overseas and learn how to be a proud cowboy gunslinger, since he’s undoubtedly got both the power and the money to back any anti-American naysayer except a Saudi oil tick into the corner. And if a Saudi is saying bad things about your President, then you know without a doubt that said President is doing very good things indeed.
