So basically Trump just wanted to take a vacation to Paris?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Is that about the long and the short of it?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Or he's pissed at the USA for the House and wanted to pout.

[dalton99a]

2. He went to see the boss, and receive salutes from soldiers in a parade

[Leghorn21]

3. According to one tweet I read, he was hungry for a "Cheeseburger Royale"

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Do you mind if i have a drink of your delicious beverage...BRAD????

[Leghorn21]

6. I LIKE BEER

I...I STILL LIKE BEER

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Sure is looking more and more like a

Paris shopping trip for his Escort ,and if the Sun Shines,some Photo's for his Reelection Campaign. Plus,got to check in with his handler Vlad.

[Talitha]

7. He just wants to get the hell away from The Blue Wave...

"If I don't look at it for a while, maybe it'll go away."

What a dork!

[Quixote1818]

8. I bet he doesn't like being around any of the other world leaders

He knows they hate his guts and think he is an idiot.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Don't forget his tryst with Putin...

probably wants to whine about how Putin lost the House .

Putin will probably say something along the line of, "Life sucks and then you die."

[kairos12]

10. He's pissed he didn't get his NK style parade.

[HipChick]

11. Vacation at taxpayers expense..

and line his pockets while he's at it..

[UCmeNdc]

12. So basically Trump just needed a cover story to meet Putin

[greyl]

13. Business with Putin. nt

[smirkymonkey]

14. I don't know why.

It doesn't seem like he even leaves the hotel room. It certainly can't be the food.

[TeamPooka]

15. Yes. It's like ROMAN HOLIDAY but if Audrey Hepburn was a fat 72 year old man.

[Tanuki]

16. Surprising, since his "friend Jim" never goes to Paris anymore

https://www.apnews.com/e18f254c4ac84e6bab4ceed56401cc65

..."The way Trump tells it — Jim is a friend who loves Paris and used to visit every year. Yet when Trump travels to the city Thursday for his first time as president, it’s unlikely that Jim will tag along. Jim doesn’t go to Paris anymore. Trump says that’s because the city has been infiltrated by foreign extremists.

Whether Jim exists is unclear. Trump has never given his last name. The White House has not responded to a request for comment about who Jim is or whether he will be on the trip.

Trump repeatedly talked about the enigmatic Jim while on the campaign trail, but his friend didn’t receive widespread attention until Trump became president. For Trump, Jim’s story serves as a cautionary tale - a warning that even a place as lovely as Paris can be ruined if leaders are complacent about terrorism.

Jim’s biggest moment in the spotlight was during a high-profile Trump speech in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Trump explained that Jim “loves the City of Lights, he loves Paris. For years, every year during the summer, he would go to Paris. It was automatic, with his wife and his family.”

Trump one day asked Jim: “How’s Paris doing?”

″’Paris?” Jim replied, as relayed by Trump. ”‘I don’t go there anymore. Paris is no longer Paris.’”

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, responded by tweeting a photo of herself with Mickey and Minnie Mouse inviting Trump “and his friend Jim” to France to “celebrate the dynamism and the spirit of openness of #Paris.”....