Top 10 Most Embarrassing Diplomatic Blunders
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- Top 10 Most Embarrassing Diplomatic Blunders
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There are plenty of embarrassing moments politicians don’t want you to know about. But only the worst diplomatic faux pas can cause an international incident. Whether it’s Silvio Berlusconi referring to President Barack Obama as tan, George W. Bush giving Germany’s Angela Merkel a random neck rub or President Jimmy Carter’s translator accidentally telling Poland that Carter desired them, these are some of the most embarrassing diplomatic blunders. WatchMojo counts down ten political gaffes that will make you cringe.
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00:42 #10: Sarkozy’s Toasty (2007)
01:52 #9: Shut It, Chávez (2007)
02:55 #8: Obama and Sarkozy Diss Israel (2011)
03:59 #7: Italian Prime Minister Compliments Obama’s “Tan” (2008)
05:10 #6: Prince Philip Queries About Spears (2002)
06:13 #5: W’s Shoulder Rubs (2006)
07:01 #4: President Jimmy Carter Desires Poland (1977)
08:07 #3, #2 & #1 ????
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Why do I get the feeling that 4 years from now this video will be entirely out of date?
Buffoon1980
because the video will be 4 years old?
Not really, Drumpf will make a top ten list all of his own.
Buffoon1980 Shots fired
It didn't take that long
Greetings from 2019, Trump can fill up this list in just a week
the shoulder rub wasn't sexist, but rather, really cringey just imagine being in a business meeting and that happens to you lmao.
I mean it kinda is. Why did he do it to a woman? Walked past like 2 dudes then decided to run her shoulders.
I can understand why it's inappropriate... but I wouldn't call a shoulder rub sexual harassment...
I agree. And while I can see why it is inappropriate, it didn't really look like she took it as anything more than a joke. I've seen similar reactions from friends when in similar situations.
Kimberly exactly, looks like she was surprised then was laughing about it, i do that too when somebody grabs my shoulder i kind of tense up before i realize whats really happening, its just a way for the media to blow up... imagine if today's media was around when HW threw up in the PM's lap... theyd be having a fucking field day with that
Sam Gilfellan oo
Hi Joe Biden
It's just their liberal bias
I remember in '92 so many people lost their minds when the Aussie PM at the time Paul Keating kept touching the queen on her back during a visit. It was in the news for days.
i thought the 2016 election as a whole would be a huge blunder
Mrtnxzylpck so its not a blunder then?
It was. Bernie got screwed, and we were left with 2 candidates that nobody wanted to vote for.
#savage
Alfred Alfred lol I guess we are the same then. I was on Hillary side at the beginning but after the emails came out I became a full blown trump supporter.
Mrtnxzylpck yup, both of those candidates was a mistake
For the 1% who see this
Merry Christmas
and a Happy new year
Angelina Ferreira Fuck you, I'll have a sad new year if I want to. Don't tell me what to do.
Thanks. Same to you. I have a tortoise named Angelina. Just as good natured as you.
Lelouch Vi Britannia Troll i love it!
I can say that shoulder grabbing thing is just something people do to each other when they see each other. I see it as a normal thing.
They said that he "Groped her" That wasn't a grope, that had nothing to do with sex, I've had both men and women do that to me a ot in the past, hell a few of my friends still do it, it'd be different if he was actually sexually motivated and attempted to grab her somewhere more intimate, but the fact that she smiled afterwards with a genuine smile tells me that it is the same how i would feel, a surprise shoulder grab from a friend. And don;t forget, a president is allowed to have friends both male and female, and socializing is a big part of politics in all realms.
Germans are not touchy- feely!
wrt Sarkozy "It was reminiscent of an event two years later.. " fairly sure an event can't be 'reminiscent' of an event in it's future...
Touchè 👊👊
Well, both are in the past. Like, geez. Trying to be smart, but end up being dumber
I am not a fan of George W. Bush, but that shoulder rub really is not that big a deal.
Andre Lucas yes
Not at all, it was brief
@Andre Lucas How is it creepy?? It's not like she's a random person he's never met before. God, people nowadays make a huge deal about everything. I didn't like Dubya either but Jesus Christ!!!
Yeah he's just an idiot, there's more brains in a chicken sandwich
@@warreng675 so your saying there's brains in chicken sandwiches? Eww🤢
what? were is Hillary lying about sniper fire in Bosnia? LOL
Where is St Ron lying about Iran-Contra?
Aragorn522 That's not an "embarrassing blunder".
Trump has also done horrible things, let's not restrict our shit talking to only Hillary.
Goddamn.
+Hannah Smith name 1 "horrible thing" trump has done
like invading Libia and getting hundreds of thousands of people killed because of money?
Name something that Trump has done that is close to that...gl.
oh, he's done plenty of horrible things, just not as a politician. True nothing as bad as Hillary though trump isn't all sunshine and rainbows either.
black people can get tans. Claiming they can't is worse than calling them tanned.
You don't say...
Stephen Budders Um no we dont get " tans". We have natural brown skin. We don't need to tan . We just get darker.
Queen LeLe getting darker is still getting a tan
What about Sudanese people? They can't get darker than they already are. So no black people can't get tans.
Michael Mwai President Obama is a lot more pale today than he was back then. He did have a tan. There will always be people who are exceptions. President Obama has about the same skin tone as me. I can get a tan and if you compare two pictures of Obama, you will see that he can to.
Carrie Fisher a.k.a. Princess Leia is freaking dead! R.I.P. Princess Leia. #Why2016wastheWorst
yeah her best known role was playing a side character
Dwayne Jones 2016 sucked
How is that a diplomatic blunder lol, apart from for The Rebels...
Harley Quinn Fucking Moon-Phobic bitch.
Harley Quinn Nothing I said was racist, you are so butthurt Trump won you are calling lunar people racist just because we aren't a normal shade of white.
Yeah Boris Yeltsin was so incompetent he was hilarious.
я устал, я ухожу
I bet ^this^ is the russian expression for fuck you.
bet again
@@inhert6469 He wrote "I am tired, I am leaving". Why get all negative?
when im not busy sucking at sports i make gaming videos on youtube.
:)
lol
Totally agree with Obama and Sarkozy 😂
French here, and concerning Sarkozy (n°10) there are loads of different theories but the one that is considered most plausible is different. Apparently, right before the press conference, S. had a conversation with Putin, where he kind of schooled him and told him he disagreed and condemned his actions (i.e. death of journalist Politkovskaya, murder of Chechens, treatment of LGBT, etc.). To that, Putin answered that if he continued to talk to him that way, he would crush him, or that if he stopped there, he would make him the 'King of Europe', in a speech that was apparently filled with insults. Following that conversation, Sarkozy was so baffled at how he'd been treated that during the press conference, he was just in a state of total shock.
How exactly is rubbing the shoulders of a woman "sexual harassment"?
Chozo Hunter ikr, it was just really uncomfortable to watch lol.
He touched her shoulders how is that sexiest?
Colin Zeise ikr
The one woman in the room at a diplomatic meeting. Did you see him offer to do anything except shake the hand of anybody else? Overfamiliarity just because it was a woman.
its because everyone is a little wimp nowadays
They caught him with a boner as he touched her shoulders. LULZ
+Dianne Steitz The clip was 5 seconds we didn't see him do much of anything but the shoulders...
0:45 Sarkozy was not drunk: he was knocked out by the meeting he just had with Vladimir Putin. Before the meeting he bragged that he would have the balls to talk about the many painful topics, but was push back into place in a harsh way. And could not believe what just happened to him.
8:13 Who can blame him! ABBA fucking rules, dude!
Oh, I misunderstood it.
Mr. Mojo Risin'
FUCK YEAH!!! That's my jam!!
Legend has it they still throw spears to this day.
+Moon Man
Savage!
Moon Man Get the fuck out racist ass bitch .
The Hildebeast and her "reset" button should have been #1.
"Imagine being asked if you still make cave paintings?" Lmao!!
The lighthearted jokes are great. People get their panties in a bunch too easily
Didn't bush choke on a pretzel once and pass out for a sec?
This is one of the funniest watch mojo videos I've ever seen.
The French PM doesn't drink?? Have U lost your mind?? =))
Number 2 was obviously a gaffe but bloody hell he should have been painfully aware he had to nail it,poor guy. 😂
I'm done - *done* with you WatchMojo.
*My 2017 will be *WatchMojo free*!
SupaEMT134 you're going to fail, Watchamojo is irresistible.
Thank heavens! More room for us.
Hey Mojo: Remember, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Joe Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." - ? Maybe if they had run on the GOP ticket. 🙄
Why isn't Yeltsin dancing not a meme? 😅
Had to have a Prince Philip one in there....
I didn't realize that number 5 with the shoulder rubs was sexist.... can some one explain? I thought sexist things are like when people say that "women are only good in bed " or " women can't drive"
I guess they think he targeted her because she is a woman, and he wouldn't do that to a man. I don't see the big deal though.
For No. 1, you should've showed the clip from Hot Shots Part Deux! hahahaha
I mean they arent wrong about Netanyahu though
??? how could George Bush Sr passing out, be a blunder.
So lemme get this straight Carter was about to abandon the presidency so he can screw an entire country
I thought the electoral college reading the wrong polling numbers was going to be number one, cause let's be honest, it was pretty embarrassing
#1 isn't actually a blunder. Blunder is defined as: a stupid or careless mistake. A medical issue is hardly a mistake.
I did not have sex with that women
Hosea Davit .....I think you mean "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"....
Damn.
Hannah Smith
Oops, but atleash it was close
That wasn't a diplomatic blunder.
Stalinov
He had a diplomatic relation with that women right.
Hosea Davit - Women? Or just the one woman?
They take things to serious!
Oof Chavez certainly didn’t get the last laugh comparing Spain to Venezuela now
You'll be amazed what medications can make you do... it's been a year since I drank alcohol and the meds I took recently made me stumble when I walk, slur my speech and forget everything
"After my election I have more flexibility." may yet go down in history as a big blunder, both politically and diplomatically.
Of course it is. Deliberate liar and failure.
People didn’t realize how corrupt Obama actually was
Oh my God i didnt know Schroeder extinguished the flame. im horrified yet its hilarious.
Reagan’s joke about bombing the Soviet Union was hilarious
Yeah maybe not something a president should be saying with the mic on, but eh. He thought it was off
Grabbing a women's shoulders is not "a stunning sexist display of sexual harassment" - what a crock of shite.
Please, the crown has a history of treating indigenous people GOBALLY poorly, ever heard of something called the British empire?
About Sarkozy maybe being drunk... One of his advisers recently gave an interview in which he explained Sarko wasn't so much drunk as stunned. Putin, during their private talk, told Sarko that he could make his life hard just as easily as he could make it easy... so he'd better do what he'd be told. Allegedly.
Getting sick is not a diplomatic blunder.
Hey they're humans! HAHA
yeltzen: VODKA!
German chancellor: Sigh...
This number one is the most classic embarrassing Diplomat blunders
Boris Johnson (the then Mayor of London) getting stuck on a zipline during the 2012 Olympics
It didn’t offend anyone it was just hilarious
You forgot Obamas blunder disrespecting Queen Elisabeth
John Key, my country's prime minister keeps pulling ponytails. It's like a weird fetish or something.
"OH George you did it again".
You know it's politics when telling how you really feel is a "blunder".
Most of this are people being sensitive
Ref #6, Indigenous Australians still do use spears in Tribal Punishments, Spearing the thigh.
I cringed so hard at 2, how terribly awkward.
This is the best you got? THE most embarrassing diplomatic blunders? Dear Watchmojo. It's a big world out there. May I present to you, my suggestion for the nr1 spot on this list. We (Sweden) got, back in the 80s, a beautiful stallion (think it's called Arabian Fullblood in English) as a diplomatic gift. If memory serves me right, it was a gift from Saudi Arabia. Not sure though. It was a beautiful gesture. With hopes of a long and happy relationship between our 2 countries. Eventually, they called us up on the phone, and asked, "So, how do you like the horse." To which the Swedish ambassador had the slightly uncomfortable task to tell the truth. "We had the horse shot." You see, the horse hadn't gone through the proper quarantines before reaching Sweden. And Sweden did what it always does- follow bureaucracy by the book and by the numbers.
We KILLED the diplomatic token. Their finest gift. We shot their horse in the head. How is this NOT nr1??
Corrections. Finally found the info. And it's even worse. 3 horses slaughtered (not 1)by the Swedish army. Gift from Pakistan (not Saudi Arabia). And the year was 1995 (not the 80s). Pardon the errors.
Well, dammit. One last correction. The reason for the slaughter was: Import of horses from Asia to Sweden is totally forbidden, for some reason (so, not the quarantine error. They weren't allowed in, at all).
A diplomatic blunder made from america on humanity was the ADL making Pepe the frog a hate symbol.
Remember that time when Bill Clinton was handed the Romanian flag while visiting the country and his reply was "Thanks for the poncho."
To answer prince phillip: Yes, yes they do.
I would have thought Bush saying the Queen last visiting in 1895 would have got an Hounorable mention
You should do top 10 biggest fads of all time!
lol i love how Obama disrespecting Israel is brushed off, and him being called "tan" as a joke is considered rascist... but bush's shoulder thing is talked about like it's the end of the world. Pretty partisan, WatchMojo.
this is mostly a video of instances the media blew shit out of proportion.
Reminiscent means it happened before... not after. It's not possible for a situation to be reminiscent of something that happened after the first incident. That doesn't make any sense.
Sarkozy wasn’t actually drunk, he actually had an encounter with Vladimir Putin who told him that Russia could easily invade France if he wanted after Sarkozy was being a bit arrogant about France. It’s only what I’ve heard feel free to correct me if I am wrong
You missed the time when Chinese President Xi Jinping was called "Eleven Jinping" by an Indian Journalist when he visited India. I'm not kidding. Look it up if you want to.
omg! the german chancellor turned to gas off for a second! what a catastrophe!!
Just a little footnote on the Berlusconi comment, Tanned isnt necessarily racist, regardless of ethnicity. There is something called reference points, in most languages and that means words doesnt always translate directly. He was only praising Obama for his looks, nothing else.
You should add the incident in 1962 when soviet premier addressed delegation's of NATO members in a forum in which he told them "WE WILL BURY YOU".
how can something be reminiscent of an incident that happened after it? That doesn't make sense
John McCain visiting DAESH
So, i'm from the UK and like most British watching this video we got the the fist mention of prince philip and thought "why is this top ten list just all of him?!"
idea for a video: top 10 actors not win an Oscar.
james howe found the video and now I feel stupid
They did one already!
Donald Trump as a person should be number one.
lol
Adammyers1995 I think you meant to say Adolf Hillary Clinton.
Dante Vic No I meant für Trump
hopatease1 slow down buddy your alt-right is showing
He made more blunders-per-second than any other president. That's a fact.
Can you do a Top 10 Skillet Songs?
Grabbing someone's shoulders is sexual harrassment? hahhaahahahahahaahaha
Ok so being called tanned is offensive too? Ok well guess we will just use the other word then.
You do realize this list will be obsolete in 4 years right?
#2 needed curb your enthusiasm music lol
Here's another diplomatic blunder: After her arrival at Bangkok airport for a state visit to Thailand in 1996, Queen Elizabeth II was reportedly greeted by then-prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa with the words: "Welcome to Thailand, Queen Elizabeth Taylor." Banharn resigned three weeks later, but not because of that embarrassing incident, but because of his involvement in numerous corruption scandals.
I think something unspoken here is how much alcohol is involved in diplomacy. In fact, it can be said that we might not have a country without it. The years during the American Revolution where Benjamin Franklin spent an extended period in Paris were basically Ben getting toasted with the luminaries he met there, garnering international support for the revolution.
Public meltdown? He got sick! how the fuck is that a meltdown? Shit happens WatchMojo
#5 would not be considered Sexual Harassment as they don't work for each other. We don't know the relationship between those two and the smile Merkel gave right afterwards makes her appear to be consenting to the massage.
Man, this list needs a remake...
The queen ignores a toast from president obama
You guys should do top 10 click bait youtubers
when did touching someone's shoulders become remotely sexual in any way, is this a new fetish or something? 😂
Sarkozy and Obama getting caught gossiping😂
All the stupid things Prince Philip has said and you choose probably his least offensive comment ever
Ex-Chilean president Sebastian Piñera showing the "33 mineros" letter on USA and interrupted by his wife or Sebastian Piñera giving a speech after the 27F earthquake and fucked up everything with "marepoto" insted of "maremoto"
Wtf how the fuck is turning of fucking flames a big deal?? Accidently at that!
Only one person could be on the thumbnail
Yeltsin was once found drunk, in his underwear, trying to hail a cab outside the White House to get a pizza. NO LIE.
When will people understand, when dealing with black people, skin color should be left out of the conversation. A great man once said, people should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.