French official scrap seating arrangements to thwart trump-putin meeting

[The Blue Flower]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/french-officials-thwart-trump-putin-meeting-scrapping-lunch-seating-arrangements-last-minute-report

French officials reportedly threw a wrench into a potential lunch meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin on Sunday by seating the two away from each other.

The BBC reported that French officials made a “last minute” change to lunch seating arrangements after the two shook hands at a World War I remembrance.

......
I'd say that Macron is tending to European security right now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "I'm going to have to separate you two if you can't behave!"

Looking after Trump is like babysitting an unusually bratty three-year-old.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Didn't the fake prez do that last time he was in Europe?

He sat across from Putin but still talked to him over dinner.

Hours into a dinner with world leaders who had gathered for the Group of 20 summit meeting, President Trump left his chair at the sprawling banquet table and headed to where President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was seated.

The two presidents had met earlier in the day for the first time and, as the White House put it, had developed a rapport even as they talked about Russia’s interference in the United States’ 2016 elections.The July 7 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, was the single most scrutinized of the Trump presidency. But it turned out there was another encounter: a one-on-one discussion over dinner that lasted as long as an hour and relied solely on a Kremlin-provided interpreter.

No presidential relationship has been more dissected than the one between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, a dynamic only heightened by the swirl of investigations into whether Mr. Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to sway the election in his favor. Nevertheless, the meeting was confirmed by the White House only on Tuesday, after reports surfaced that some of the guests had been surprised that it occurred.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/trump-putin-undisclosed-meeting.html

[Gothmog]

3. This made me smile

Link to tweet

[Julian Englis]

4. There's a reason that French was the language of diplomacy. n/t

[kairos12]

5. That's problem. The Russians placed the next payment under the previously arranged chair for Drumpt.

[FakeNoose]

10. Rand Paul can always pick it up on his next visit

[world wide wally]

6. We'll have to see if trump pushes someone out of the way

[LakeArenal]

7. Sadly, it's all so high school...

Except that it’s world leaders.

Trump is an embarrassment in every single tiny inch.

[RainCaster]

8. DFT had to sit at the kiddies table

[roamer65]

9. Smart move, President Macron.

[raging moderate]

11. Vive la France!

Merci beaucoup.

[spooky3]

12. and, touche!

DU won't let me add the accent.

[paleotn]

13. He is the host...

And with a weakened Merekel, he has to.

[Fritz Walter]

14. But baby donnie brought his pee-residential knee pads to this meeting

And packed plenty of ChapStick to make sure that his lips wouldn't scratch up Vlad's tender areas.