Hope the locks hold.

Ask yourself what are the differences between Camp David and his usual weekend getaways. No hotel/resort guests. Fewer distractions. Greater seclusion and security.

I'm thinking whoever planned this weekend needed a place to hunker down and make plans with absolutely no chance of leaks of any sort. This shows someone in the administration sees this weekend as particularly important.

These are both bunkers built to withstand the cold-war crap.

Lots of places to live for a few years when his friends decide to make the rest of the countryside radioactive.

Oh, shit. There I go being conspiratorial again.

If anyone on I-66 or Route 7 in Virginia notice a lot of well-armored vehicles heading out of DC sometime soon, duck under your desks.

I was hoping she'd take him hiking in the woods and lose him.

Well, he should be enjoying himself.

That, and maybe a colonoscopy to remove cancerous sycophants.

depth perception.

LOSER can practice putting & tweet his brains out (well what is left of them)

Trump family makes first visit to Camp David.

"If and when they are at Camp David, the place will be stocked with his favorites, those Keebler Vienna Fingers cookies, and better have the Lay's potato chips," he said, adding that the Secret Service will also have probably checked out the nearest Kentucky Fried Chicken locations, just in case POTUS gets a craving. "You have to figure that out. They'll map, know, target and analyze how to get in and get out of at least three locations," he said, adding that staff got used to fast food runs during Bill Clinton's visits.

(For the record, there's a KFC in Thurmont that's open until midnight on Saturdays, and one just over the border in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, about a 25-minute drive from Camp David.)

Outside of easy access to fried chicken, Trump could also get to know Camp David for its security purposes; it's a fully activated government safe zone, just a 20-minute Marine One helicopter ride from the South Lawn of the White House.'>>>

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/trump-camp-david-visit/index.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10561862

Like they do with Mar a Lago and his other properties

staying at Mar a Lago? I know it costs the taxpayers a mint.

Can you imagine what the media would say if a Democrat did that?

We're footing the bill for him going to his resorts, and he's profiting. Same with Trump Tower, we footed the bill for him to profit on.

to continue to pay for staying at Mar A Lago?

I read about when Jackie wanted a getaway summer place JFK tried to get the gov't to defray some of the cost. The SS was like... nah son that's what Camp David is for.

They say it costs around $35,000 a visit.

SS and WH staff have to sleep there, eat there, he gets paid, it is his club. WE pay it, as taxpayers.

Minute he got elected he raised the club membership fee from 200,000 to 300,000.

I read that in 2016, after he announced his candidacy, Mar-Lego earned almost twice as much ( 91%) more than in 2015.
Also same for any of his golf clubs he has been staying at over the weekends.

about 10 am ET.

None since.
When he does break silence, there is usually a flurry , not counting the press release info someone puts on his trump feed.

he's not capable of something that coherent.

One that somehow just loops on itself so it tooks to him like he's tweeting away to the world. Program bots and a few surrogate humans to fawn over his every word. Just sneak in when he finally closes his eyes for an hour or so and switch out phones on him.

Thank gawd they haven't thought of this. Those tweets are good evidence and one of our most effective weapons.

Something must be really up. He has so many properties that he would normally flee to that maybe he thinks the phones at those places are all "tapped".

Trump and his 3 spawn flee to Camp David, Bannon is kidnapping folk, the staff is hiring lawyers on the sly cause the Administration is telling them they don't need representation...

Somethings going to break before Monday I bet.

Am assuming he is still there.

DT is 20 kinds of fkd up, secreting himself in a place he hates, Bannon is holding hostages, Trump's lawyers are hiring lawyers and the Gop usual suspects are veering into hysteria.

Something happened, Idk what. It's as if whatever it was, it hit a bunch of people all at once.

from doing a Saturday Night Massacre or are trying to confirm where the "leaks" are coming from (e.g., WH service employees, etc).

dealing with family, that means he trusts NO ONE not even his lawyers.

If your own lawyers feel the need to hire lawyers...wow.

or they "get fired". But then since he balks at paying anybody, "getting fired" would essentially provide the same result for them - no pay.

discuss, plot, plan or manuever bc it can and will be construed as cover up and obstruction. Mof staff has been told by their own personal lawyers not to ever talk to DT's lawyer alone without counsel. When WH counsel told them they didn't need a lawyer while everyone around them hires lawyers left and right....trust goes out the window.

It's every man for himself now. That's probably what sent Trump & Co scurrying to Camp David. No one can co sign his bullshit.

The investigation has become very broad, delving into the finances and connections of many, many people and entities on various continents. Whatever this collection of crooks and hyenas imagined they were hiding, it's now exploded out of any hope of control and moving far, far, far faster than the Nixon and Reagan scandals suggested could be possible.

And the Republican Party won't protect them. It doesn't need or want them. It has Pence, Ryan, Orrin Hatch in line for the presidency, all competent, long-time Koch allies and agents.

Camp David has to be an attempt to get some control of Rump's behavior and their own as they figure how to proceed. For the first time in his life he can't just throw money at his latest disaster, or wave goodbye to what's already down the hole, and walk away.

Maybe he's afraid that Putin is going to blab something about him because he failed in his efforts to get the sanctions lifted. Not only did he fail, but Congress took away any power he thought he had to do anything about the sanctions in the future.

DT keeps pushing for lifting the Russian sanctions even with all the heat re Putin and Resnoft.

Once Putin got word the senate was opposed and blocking Trump he probably threatened him with tapes, called in his loans, anything and everything he has on him. Putin doesn't care about DT's longterm political viability; he wants those sanctions lifted.

The stress level there has got to be off the charts.

And welcome to DU.

about it? I'm pretty sure there are all manner of bugs buzzing about Camp David nowadays.

Like the Nixon tapes, we may hear it all one day.

He might show up and try to stiff them for greens fees.

The black Suburbans will do take-outs for him. No worries

Oh, sorry - black Suburbans, not suburbanites...

are the Mar A Lago trips. This is true.

income for 2016 was 91% higher than 2015. Just a shade less than double income.

Dear Leader isn't a nature kind of guy.

Besides his lawyers, of course. That would tell us a lot about whom he trusts in a tight situation.

Plotting against Moose and Squirrel!

They also moved to the WH.

"Look how big those crowds are!"

How the world has declined ... how fortunes have changed.

nt

they all head north, he would have no playmates

I doubt there's a "glam room" at Camp David.

Barron did have on that J Crew shirt, so maybe Melania shopped for regular stuff before coming to Washington. I would not be surprised if she held out for Camp David so that she could have a cabin away from that jerk.

Or is he requured to wear a tie to bed? Is he even allowed to get dirty?

While I don't care if he is worried, when a guy as predictable as tRump hunkers down in a place he loathes because of its low key digs and (relative) seclusion, it's worrisome. What's he got cooking? Though I did read a little something on Twitter earlier today about him trying to "erase" Ivanka from his poker ops - whatever that/they is/are.

where he can yell at and abuse Melania and Barron without risk of leaks of his behavior. You know he has to take all this out on someone he owns; someone who won't fight back in anyway. Screaming at White House aides is not enough; he needs some people he can utterly destroy and these 2 are it.

She's not president, and has no money or career to defend: She can always take up with another billionaire.

Wild horses couldn't drag me into the wilderness with that lunatic and the rest of his Addams Family.

I just want these bastards gone.

What a weirdo.

Of course they're not telling us who he's meeting with. "We're not stupid."

That kid really needs to get out of the city for as much as possible. He never smiles.

Seriously, he looks pasty.

They show nothing happening between them.

Also, that Melania calls him Little Donald & not because he looks like Trump.

Parenting Magazine Interview

http://www.parenting.com/blogs/hip-mama/melania-trump-shares-her-1-parenting-tip-and-secrets-lasting-marriage

snip...

Tell me about Barron, what is his personality like?

He is a very strong-minded, very special, smart boy. He is independent and opinionated and knows exactly what he wants. Sometimes I call him little Donald. He is a mixture of us in looks, but his personality is why I call him little Donald.

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Great.

That's nice.

...that Watergate anniversary special making the rounds this weekend.

More like a putting green.

https://aboutcampdavid.blogspot.com/2010/08/camp-david-golf-course.html

I think Trump owns a club nearby though.

I hate that this nasty excuse for a human being gets to use this beautiful peaceful place. If I were rich I'd love to have a home like this... but I love nature and appreciate true beauty... not tacky gold everything.

Directly south of Thurmont, MD about 60 miles away from Camp David


http://www.trumpnationaldc.com/

60 miles is nothing in a helicopter if Tantrump wants to wander off for a morning round. Heck, maybe Barron plays.

Maybe some high-up rethugs are trying to set him right. Are any of them not in DC this weekend?

Or maybe they're making plans and getting their stories straight for the coming investigations, trials, subpoenas, and so on.

for 'the President is off playing somewhere else but we're not saying'
Bush One used to be in the Keys fishing every time he was at 'Camp David'.
Wonder where Trump really went and who he's showering with.

I should have said 'often fished in the Keys' instead of 'every time'.
A friend's dad used to take them out in his and thought it was hilarious
that the press played along with the very thin cover story that Bush was
'hard at work at Camp David'

thinking Melania talked him into this. If she did, good on her. He needs to be away from his aides for a couple of days, time with his son, and get his mind off firing folks!

tomorrow is Father's Day so maybe Barron pushed a bit for time with his father.

In 1995, I found a huge ornate Arkansas levee bond from the year 1871. I brought it with me when I met Bill Clinton for the first time, and got a nice letter from him a while later thanking me for it, and telling me he had it on display at Camp David. I sent a follow up note with a copy of the invoice I got when I bought it in Paris.

Sitting presidents are only allowed to keep personal gifts received while in office if they cost under $200, and the guy in Paris had charged me the equivalent of $175, so I made sure Clinton could keep it when he left office. Trump would probably have trashed it if he saw it, but I don't think Clinton neglected to take it with him.