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I do love these leakers.
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Trump sought to shorten overseas trip to 5 days: report
By Rebecca Savransky - 05/17/17 02:44 PM EDT
Trump sought to shorten overseas trip to 5 days: report
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President Trump asked for his first foreign trip to be shortened from nine to five days, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The president reportedly had "expressed dread" about the upcoming trip, which will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican.
Since assuming office, the president has often visited his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on the weekends but has not yet taken a trip abroad.
The travel comes as the administration is battling several controversies.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Suck it up, man.
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)Hate the idea of him repping us around the world.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)If he's the "micro-manager" that reports claim, with all this stuff going on, being out of the country will be very unsettling for him.
RockCreek
(739 posts)Especially if he can just make it Saudi Arabia where there shouldn't be protests.
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)Siwsan
(26,262 posts)I don't remember if that particular kerfuffle was ever resolved.
riversedge
(70,214 posts)I have not read anything about the UK visit
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)I think it came up not that long after he started on his official quest to destroy the country.
BannonsLiver
(16,384 posts)That's assuming he makes it to October.
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,957 posts)Drumpf resorts with golf courses at these stops?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Hours and hours, your entire family among the friendly Locals?
riversedge
(70,214 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)leftstreet
(36,108 posts)thucythucy
(8,050 posts)when he was vice president under Eisenhower.
That should ease his mind.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,337 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It could be the final straw.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)about everything he does everywhere he goes? All too likely. I still grieve the loss of the "presidential handshake," the one that threatened to dislocate a shoulder. If only he'd taken this trip right away.
I'm also remembering Romney's gaffs when he went over to build his "presidential" resume. The ignorance of people who have little intellectual curiosity and no real interest in the world beyond their own piece of it becomes more and more astonishing the longer they live.
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)And I hope the "disgraceful" and soon-to-be "fake" Pope gives him hell.
The potential is certainly there for this jerk to do something incredibly stupid and embarrassing. All he has to do is let go and be himself.
hunter
(38,311 posts)... and the Saudi's will be comparing him unfavorably to their good friend George W. Bush.
Of course Trump is dreading this trip.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Does he want them to give him crayons and paper?