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Eugene

(61,939 posts)
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 04:30 PM Jan 2019

President Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week

Source: Washington Post

President Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week

By Felicia Sonmez January 6 at 12:38 PM

With the partial government shutdown dragging into its third week, President Trump on Sunday headed to Camp David for a White House staff retreat at which border security and other topics are on the agenda.

The meeting comes one day after Vice President Pence, top White House officials and senior congressional aides emerged empty-handed after more than two hours of negotiations on ending the stalemate.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Sunday morning, Trump again raised the prospect of declaring a national emergency and said he may do so “depending on what happens over the next few days.”

In a bid to force Democrats’ hand, Trump has said that he is considering declaring an emergency to begin wall construction without congressional approval. The legality of such a move is unclear, however, and the president would almost certainly face immediate legal challenges in the courts.

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President Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP
Why is he at Camp David? metroins Jan 2019 #1
He hates it there--finds it boring. He wants to go to Mar-a-Lago, but his stupid shutdown tblue37 Jan 2019 #7
Who will be doing the Food Service? Wellstone ruled Jan 2019 #2
From the wayback machine: flotsam Jan 2019 #3
Oh good! I am so glad he is finally going to get some R&R. smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #4
So, he creates a chaotic and harmful shutdown, then runs away to ride around in a golf cart and hit suffragette Jan 2019 #5
It's probably a "time-out".. SoCalDem Jan 2019 #6

metroins

(2,550 posts)
1. Why is he at Camp David?
Sun Jan 6, 2019, 04:32 PM
Jan 2019

Isn't that where the real foreign policy usually goes down?

Seems like an odd place for Trump to go.

tblue37

(65,483 posts)
7. He hates it there--finds it boring. He wants to go to Mar-a-Lago, but his stupid shutdown
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:38 AM
Jan 2019

has made that untenable.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
3. From the wayback machine:
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:03 AM
Jan 2019
https://www.si.com/vault/issue/42765/23

January 24,1955

" From the terrace to the edge of the wood line, the cleared lawn measures about 140 yards and runs to about the same yardage in width. This is hardly enough room for even one good golf hole, but Robert Trent Jones, the golf architect who was called in, dealt with the spatial problem with fine imagination. At the left of the clearing Jones built an Augusta-type green, and then created four tees along the right-hand edge—the first, 100 yards distant and 15 feet above the level of the green; the second, 140 yards distant, 20 feet above; the third, 120 yards distant, 20 feet below; and the fourth, 80 yards distant and 15 feet below. Carrying his mashie and pitching irons, a player hits his shot from each of the four tees, in counter-clockwise order, then moves up to the green to hole out his four balls. It offers a splendid variety of shots and no confusion in a foursome as long as each player uses a clearly distinguishable set of balls—like ones imprinted with MR. PRESIDENT."
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. Oh good! I am so glad he is finally going to get some R&R.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:10 AM
Jan 2019

He so deserves it after all this madness that he has inflicted upon the nation.

Resign motherfucker!

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
5. So, he creates a chaotic and harmful shutdown, then runs away to ride around in a golf cart and hit
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:16 AM
Jan 2019

golf balls with people who will only always agree with him, likely out of fear of one of his tantrums.

Pretty much the definition of a kid throwing a fit and taking his ball home.

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