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Here's to the winners: "White House officials"
(begin quote)President Trump Apparently Couldn't Find A Hotel To Book For The G20 Summit
He is one of the most powerful people in the world. He is coming to the meeting of 20 powerful countries. And he has a problem: no hotel room for the G20.
White House officials apparently waited too long to book accommodations for President Trump, leaving him without a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, as world leaders converge for the G20 summit.
Organizers announced the scheduled summit in February 2016, which requires 9,000 hotel rooms to accommodate world leaders, their sizable staffs, and security details.(endquote)
via BuzzFeed News
Don't they have a Days Inn in Hamburg?
yesphan
(1,587 posts)on AF1.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sad
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)And the rest of the delegation is staying at the UN Consulate.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Jeez, this so-called "president" is an embarrassment. I thought W was (and it's true, he was) but even he didn't reach the level (depths) of contradicting U.S. Intelligence agencies on foreign soil. Now the WH people can't even book a hotel.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Who would've thought we'd have a president that was dumber than him so soon?
underpants
(182,603 posts)MineralMan
(146,254 posts)They've put fresh hay in the mangers.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)During their formative years.
Here's a sample:
Even though most of the pics showing are from the Cavern, this was recorded at the Star Club in Hamburg, last week in December 1962.
trof
(54,256 posts)McDonald's is catering a 'continental breakfast' in the morning.
Shower facilities will be available only for senior personnel.
The rest will be able to 'wash up'.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)So that works out well for him.
MedusaX
(1,129 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,277 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)So include everyone on his staff as being incompetent as well.
progressoid
(49,944 posts)maybe they could have a better handle on this.
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)The person in the White House who did that was summarily fired when Trump took office, along with everyone else. They simply forgot that someone had to handle such details. So, nobody was around to remind them about booking rooms.
I heard that Trump tried to find a room on Trivago, using his cell phone on Monday, but with no luck. He finally found one, but his credit card was declined. Reason: Fraud prevention.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)or is this another one of your CNN sources? That one is too close to believable.
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)working on the White House staff when he took office. Among those were very experienced people who handled all sorts of complicated arrangements, etc. For example, there is a White House Chief of Protocol, who advises the President and staff on how to behave when dealing with people from different cultures, and so forth. That post still has not been filled. I'm sure there has been a Travel Office in the White House that was once full of experts at arranging the details of all sorts of trips, including international trips. The head of that office would have made short work of booking in Hamburg, even on short notice. You can't book something like a presidential entourage without a lot of experience. I'm sure everyone in that office was canned, too.
The thing is that a lot of those White House staff people have worked for multiple administrations. They're not really political jobs, so experience is the thing they bring to the table. Trump just did a clean sweep of White House staffers, and then did not replace a lot of them. He came to the job knowing literally nothing about the job, so he didn't understand how important all of those experienced people really are.
So, Trump goes to Hamburg with no rooms arranged for him and his numerous staff people. At the last minute, accommodations were arranged, with the help of the German government but they're not ideal. Other countries' delegations have taken over entire hotels to handle their needs. Normally, our entourage would have done the same, but nobody did the arrangements until too late.
It's not just rooms, either. Security staff gets entire floors above and below the President's floor. Normally, an entire hotel is booked so enough space and enough security can be arranged. There were people in the White House who understood all that and who knew how to arrange it, even if they had to throw some weight around to bump some other national entourage. It's a difficult coordinated job, every time the President travels overseas.
The whole thing is a failure on the Trump administration's fault, for not retaining experienced people who already knew how to do all of that. Everyone was fired, and nobody knew how to hire qualified replacements. So, there they are in Hamburg, with some staff probably sleeping on the floor at the consulate building there, and the rest crammed into a too small building with the President's close party.
It's hilarious, really, but presents a real security risk in many ways.
malaise
(268,689 posts)cleared out of which ever hotel he wants.
Incompetent does not describe these morons. Is this just WH or also State Department where there are so many vacancies?
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)And that's even worse. We're lacking ambassadors, now, in most countries, and the Assistant Secretaries for most regions and specialized functions remain to be appointed. The State Department is running on empty, with almost nobody in charge. The Trump administration has not even named people for most positions, and there seems to be no movement in the Senate to confirm the ones he has named.
It's a terrible mess, and that's just the beginning. All of the Executive Branch agencies and departments have the same situation. They canned everyone who was an Obama appointee, but have yet to even start naming people to take their places. There is no direction at all in most of them.
The goal appears to be to shut them all down by not having anyone in charge. Nothing gets done without those second-level managers. Nothing.
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I was really interested in the credit card fraud part of the story. Did the old American Expressky card truly get declined?
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,581 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Don't get pissed off when I tell you, Comrade Casino, but the place will be lousy with kompromat bed bugs.
* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)dembotoz
(16,785 posts)swaddling clothes....would that include a depends diaper??????
visited by 3 wise men....in his administration????? guess we are safe on that one
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Ich bin ein Hamburglar!
Let's not forget that he holds a degree from McDonalds U.
Eugene
(61,807 posts)gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)they have hot food vending machines and he can sleep on the benches
Doreen
(11,686 posts)if Hamburg has bridges. He can sleep there.
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)watch him ride a donkey to the airport
Pachamama
(16,884 posts)I swear....when I heard this mentioned, I thought it was a joke....
Can they really be that stupid and incompetent?
We are really all screwed, aren't we?
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)doesn't he have someone who normally handles such arrangements??
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Or if he does, that person was either drunk, out sick, or purposely sabotaging the trip. Nothing would surprise me.
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)He went off the handle and fired all of "obama's" people because of pure spite and hatred. I hope he ends up at a la quinta. Serves him right. This just cracks me up!!!