A New Goal for President Trumps First Foreign Trip: Damage Control

[riversedge]

I can not imagine trump giving a speech and even attempting to compare it to any of Obama's!!



A New Goal for President Trump’s First Foreign Trip: Damage Control



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/president-foreign-trump-russia-israel.html?ref=politics


By MARK LANDLER MAY 16, 2017


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.

The news that Mr. Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to drop the bureau’s investigation of his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, was the latest, most jarring development in a week already consumed by questions about his dismissal of Mr. Comey and his disclosure of classified intelligence from Israel to visiting Russian diplomats.

While administration officials said they were not worried that Mr. Trump’s disclosure of secret information to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, would burn America’s intelligence-sharing relationships with Israel and other partners, they acknowledged it would be a distraction on a trip that will have no shortage of other complexities..........................




“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.”.........................

[DURHAM D]

1. I think they are frantically trying to find a reason to cancel

the trip. My guess is that Baron will get sick or have an accident and twist his ankle or something.

[LisaM]

2. Historic grandeur?

With those loose suits and floppy ties and a red baseball cap slapped on his head???

[riversedge]

6. I really hope Trump leaves that red hat on the plane. He so embarrasses the U.S

[KPN]

3. Lol! That's quite the goal! Haven't they learned yet?

Never set the bar too high, it only breeds a sense of failure.

[Princess Turandot]

4. How many copies of his electoral map will he be bringing?...nt

[Solly Mack]

5. No matter how bad it is, Trump will claim it was the best trip ever by a president.

And that everyone loved him and thought him very smart.

After he insults the Muslim world with his words he thinks of as compliments, he'll claim he was well received.

He'll talk about how he and the Pope are now great friends and how the Sistine Chapel reminds him of home. Never once realizing how insulting to Michelangelo that is.

He'll tell us how Israel isn't upset with him at all, and that it is all Fake News back home.

In Brussels, they'll ask Trump if he needs someone to translate English into Trumpish for him.

Macron will tell Trump that merde means married, as in (Trump saying) I merde three times.