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malaise

(268,693 posts)
Wed May 9, 2018, 03:08 PM May 2018

So who thinks the Con will ask the three Americans

where they're from?

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/12/16885546/trump-asian-american-intelligence-briefing
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Trump reportedly interrupted intel briefing to ask Korean American, “Where are you from?”
It was her first time meeting the president, and when she was done briefing, he had a question for her.

”Where are you from?” the president asked, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the exchange.

New York, she replied.

Trump was unsatisfied and asked again, the officials said. Referring to the president’s hometown, she offered that she, too, was from Manhattan. But that’s not what the president was after.

He wanted to know where “your people” are from, according to the officials, who spoke off the record due to the nature of the internal discussions.

After the analyst revealed that her parents are Korean, Trump turned to an adviser in the room and seemed to suggest her ethnicity should determine her career path, asking why the “pretty Korean lady” isn’t negotiating with North Korea on his administration’s behalf, the officials said.

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Don't be fooled by this racist Con - it's all a photo op

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So who thinks the Con will ask the three Americans (Original Post) malaise May 2018 OP
He may or may not. But he CERTAINLY will take credit. pangaia May 2018 #1
Isn't that sort of a second meeting kind of question? ProudLib72 May 2018 #2
... subterranean May 2018 #3
"Where are you from, anyway?" Wednesdays May 2018 #4
"Where are you from?" left-of-center2012 May 2018 #5
Not a reporter malaise May 2018 #6

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Isn't that sort of a second meeting kind of question?
Wed May 9, 2018, 03:14 PM
May 2018

Donald "Be Best Doesn't Apply to Me" Rump forgot his etiquette.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
5. "Where are you from?"
Wed May 9, 2018, 04:32 PM
May 2018

As I recall, he asked that of a reporter,
and she was from New Jersey.

But, point taken.

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