WASHINGTON — For months, President Trump’s senior advisers had planned his first foreign trip with hopes of investing it with historic grandeur: a tour of the world’s three great monotheistic religions, capped by an address to the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia that will serve as Mr. Trump’s answer to the speech former President Barack Obama gave in Cairo in 2009.
Now, though, a cascade of damaging disclosures about the president and his relationship with Russia has shredded the White House’s narrative. Mr. Trump will go abroad on Friday less as an anti-Obama figure than as a latter-day Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton — a wounded president fleeing political storms at home for an uncertain welcome overseas.
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“It’s a huge burden on the American psyche to have a president go abroad when a sword of Damocles is hanging over them at home,” said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University and an expert on the presidency. “It turns our president, instead of representing the best of America on the road, into a traveling can of worms.”
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For his part, Mr. Trump, a confirmed homebody, has expressed dread about the trip, asking aides whether it can be shortened to five days from nine. His advisers concede that the intense schedule — dozens of interactions with leaders from the Middle East and Europe, over a range of delicate issues — could produce unscripted, diplomatically perilous moments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/president-foreign-trump-russia-israel.htmlBasically, Trump is clueless and relying on Jared who knows nothing about the roll of a foreign diplomat. They've already started several fires, There's the Muslim ban, the Western Wall and Trump leaking Mossad's intel to Russia, just to name a few. It's most probably not going to go well, and all they're really hoping for is it doesn't publicly go bad.
I'm betting day 6 or 7 Trump has an 'event' if they can't find enough ways to keep him distracted and entertained.
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