GREAT news, TAXPAYERS! Trump foreign trip includes Melania, Jared, Ivanka, Reince, Steve, & Spicey!

[Miles Archer]

Donald Trump is turning his first foreign trip as president into a family vacation. Not only will first lady Melania Trump accompany him, as reported last week, but so too will his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband.

Several White House officials told Politico that Ivanka Trump, whose official title is assistant to the president, and Jared Kushner, whose official title is senior adviser, will tag along with the commander-in-chief's entourage for at least part of the upcoming tour to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, Rome, Brussels and Sicily. Other people traveling with Donald Trump for legs of the journey include press secretary Sean Spicer, chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/ivanka-and-jared-to-join-donald-trump-on-israel-visit/

[Madam45for2923]

1. They are running away?

[Girard442]

6. Works for me!

[jberryhill]

2. Too bad it's not an ocean voyage

[dalton99a]

5. On a leaky boat to Russia

[crazycatlady]

25. on the Titanic

[underpants]

3. Is he flying back to Mar-a-lago for the weekend?

Enjoy the trip Spicey.

[Brother Buzz]

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[Kahuna7]

4. He needs to have a babysitter at the ready. nt

[Txbluedog]

7. Is AF1 going to be diverted to Moscow

Or not yet, he still has time?

[Madam45for2923]

9. He is capable of running there & like Ukrainian dictator have Russia declare war on us.

[Txbluedog]

13. I was thinking Asylum....

Putin ain't stupid enough to declare war on the US

[Madam45for2923]

14. but Trump would have our nuclear codes.

[world wide wally]

21. The same people who gave him the codes can just as easily change them

[Madam45for2923]

22. OK! That is good to remember.

[world wide wally]

23. They may have very well already done it

[putitinD]

8. they won't come back!

[gratuitous]

10. If you've ever watched Survivor or Big Brother

If you've ever watched those reality shows where the group votes someone off the island or out of the house, you know that the players never want to get too complacent. Inevitably, when a contestant feels the safest and isn't securing his alliances and monitoring conversations, that person winds up on the short end of a vote. Ivanka, Jared, Sean, Reince, and Steve are all going to keep an eye on each other.

Notably, Kellyanne Conway isn't going on the trip. Anyone want to rate her chances of still being employed at the Trump White House come Flag Day?

[underpants]

31. Spicey needs to enjoy this trip

There is open discussion about him or moving him from in front of the cameras.

You are right. Out of sight out of mind.

[Madam45for2923]

11. Is he taking our nuclear codes on that trip?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. They always travel with the president.

[Madam45for2923]

20. Yes! With this unstable & untrustworthy person this is not good news.

[herding cats]

12. Stephen Miller is writing Trump's speech on Islam.

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That's right, the same man behind Islamofascism Awareness week at Duke, and the coauthor of the Muslim ban.

Then there's Jared. He's been the coordinator for the entire trip, arranging all the meetings and such.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. I keep trying to remember if I ate any strange cookies

It is getting more and more Alice in Wonderland by the day.

[herding cats]

27. Toss in the fact that Trump doesn't even want to have to go really, and it's destined to fail.

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.html

Basically, 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.

[Leith]

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. It's better to have Ivanka with him to bring him his ice cream

and his blankie.

[world wide wally]

18. Only question is:

Is Melania coming back?

[lpbk2713]

19. Taking AF-1 for a joy ride.

Enjoy it while you can assholes. Your days are numbered.

[Nictuku]

24. QUICK! CHANGE THE LOCKS!

[mhw]

30. Haaha..hurry!!

[Blue Meany]

29. So you mean of ISIS were use one of their US-supplied stinger missiles they

might take out the entire cabinet?