Trump cancels Colombia trip

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Politico

It's the second time he has canceled plans to visit the South American country.

By ELIANA JOHNSON 11/02/2018 02:18 PM EDT

President Donald Trump is scrapping a planned post-election trip to Colombia — the second time he has canceled plans to visit the South American country.

The president was slated to visit Colombia on Dec. 2 and 3 on a post-election travel blitz that will take him on separate trips to Paris and to Argentina, which is hosting the G-20 conference. But White House travel aides sent word in an internal email Friday that the president’s “planned travel to Bogota, Colombia 2-3 December has been canceled.”

The same officials said in the note that they were uncertain how the cancellation would affect Trump’s travel plans to Buenos Aires for the G-20 conference, which is scheduled for the weekend prior to his intended Colombia trip.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the president’s travel plans.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/02/trump-cancels-colombia-trip-957522

[Richard D]

1. I wonder why.

Plenty of McDonald's and KFC's in Bogotá.

[displacedtexan]

2. Secret Service probably pulled the plug.

There aren't enough agents to protect such a vile, putrid, hate-spewing asshole from the masses he's called rapists and disease ridden invaders.

[kairos12]

3. No MacDonalds within a reasonable distance.

[thegoose]

4. Well, since he's sealing our borders

And ending all contact with other countries, what's the point?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Anyone remember the 2012 SS brouhaha related to Colombia?

https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/25/us/secret-service-colombia/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/aides-despite-denials-knew-of-white-house-tie-to-cartagena-prostitution-scandal/2014/10/08/5b98dc90-4e7e-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html

Makes you wonder whether this might be factoring into the decision - notably given the reputation of the current occupant of the WH.