Trump's team discussed response to North Korea missile test in front of diners at Mar-a-Lago

[Denzil_DC]

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump tackles crisis diplomacy at close range

(CNN)The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in: North Korea had launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, its first challenge to international rules since Trump was sworn in three weeks ago.

The launch, which wasn't expected, presented Trump with one of the first breaking national security incidents of his presidency. It also noisily disrupted what was meant to be an easygoing weekend of high-level male bonding with the more sobering aspects of global diplomacy.

Sitting alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with whom he'd spent most of the day golfing, Trump took the call on a mobile phone at his table, which was set squarely in the middle of the private club's dining area.

As Mar-a-Lago's wealthy members looked on from their tables, and with a keyboard player crooning in the background, Trump and Abe's evening meal quickly morphed into a strategy session, the decision-making on full view to fellow diners, who described it in detail to CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/trump-shinzo-abe-mar-a-lago-north-korea/index.html

Aside from this revelation that if you want to know how the president handles an international crisis, you just need to book dinner at Mar-a-Lago when he's visiting and hope you're lucky, the article also explains Trump's advisers' decision that he would not make the formal statement prepared for him to follow Abe's speech.

[JHan]

1. oh God , what a fucking idiot.

[bettyellen]

2. Oh HELL no! This private club, private security, non accountable bullshit must stop!

[Ms. Toad]

3. What a buffoon. n/t

[gademocrat7]

4. Beyond the pale.

[NotThisTime]

5. Security what security... he should have asked the diners what they thought. What an idiot.

[Denzil_DC]

8. "Gentlemen, you can't eat in here! This is the War Room!"

Link to tweet

Nigel St. Hubbins @Nigel_StHubbins

@anamariecox The people at a public dining room probably have better advice than his staff.

[nolabear]

6. And then he crashed a wedding reception.

[bdamomma]

7. watch this

apparently 45 did not have his earpiece in to hear translation of Japanese leader, what a disrespectful POS 45 is, he doesn't know anything just BS people.

[mopinko]

9. iceberg wedge salad?

yuck. dripping w dressing. what is it, 1992 there?

[Ilsa]

10. Hey, tasty is still tasty no matter what year it is! :) nt

[leftstreet]

12. (lol @ 90s) Main course was probably a Blooming Onion

[NBachers]

18. "Wide-noodle Tuna Casserole with Peas; topped with Browned Crushed Corn Flakes, is now being served"

Final course will be a proud shimmering Jello mold, sporting Suspended Fruit Compote within.

[Dorian Gray]

21. I'm sure it had

bacon and blue cheese. (That figure doesn't just happen!)

Yuck.

[mopinko]

24. dripping w blue cheese dressing.

and yeah, i am sure at least he gets it w bacon. real bacon, not those fake bacon pieces.

[mopinko]

25. it's true.

i saw a description in another thread. it does have bacon and blue cheese crumbles.
it is the trump salad. bwahahahaha.

[Dorian Gray]

29. Yuck....

[Tanuki]

11. Well, at least he didn't have a private e-mail server....

that might have posed a security risk.

[Denzil_DC]

13. Oh, yeah ...

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Trump will hire foreign workers to staff Mar-a-Lago this winter

Donald Trump will hire foreign workers to staff the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., this winter — as he did last year.

According to the Palm Beach Post, Trump won approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to hire 64 foreign workers through the H-2B visa program, which allows eligible U.S. employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary jobs.

Trump hired 69 workers through the same program last year.

According to the Palm Beach Post, Trump will pay the staff wages comparable to what he offered last year. Though some will make less than they made last year, most will get a 1 percent raise.

Trump, who built his campaign on hardline immigration policies, faced criticism during the campaign when it was revealed that he hired foreign workers for seasonal jobs at the club.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/309053-trump-will-again-hire-foreign-workers-to-staff-private-resort-in-florida

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. How many foreign workers had phone numbers of Russian assets programmed in their smart phones?

[Denzil_DC]

14. Photo of Trump that evening.

Link to tweet

The timing's unclear, but the people milling round his table look a lot more concerned than he does.

[uppityperson]

15. My Pet Goat moment.

sickening

[Charles Bukowski]

27. The difference: GWB froze in panic, Trump looks like

he barely comprehends what's going on. He's literally the dumbest person in the room.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. He looks like he's thinking....

....."I get to have the little people do all the hard work for me, and then in the end I get to say whether or not to bomb people. It's good to be Emperor."

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Look at the two blurry ghouls behind him.

[NBachers]

19. Caught while shape-shifting.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Drunken Goebbles and General Molotov, correct?

That's them, I assume?

[dalton99a]

16. Beyond stupid.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Unbelievable!

Will someone please remove this dangerous, idiotic piece of shit from office NOW!

[Denzil_DC]

23. Video of Trump gladhanding at the Mar-a-Lago wedding after his and Abe's press conference:

Link to tweet

His statement there is a LOT longer than the one he made alongside Abe.