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Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:36 PM Aug 2017

Trump and his team are going to Camp David this weekend per

the Washington Examiner, supoosedly to talk about national security matters.

Mike Pence's travel schedule has been altered to cancel his international travel and public speaking engagements.

There is some speculation this weekend that the generals and everyone will talk trump into retiring since he hates living in DC, blah blah, blah. (Pray true.)

But we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves because if it gets out that we think he's quitting, he won't.

About 30 secoonds in:




I also heard that the Hope Hicks promotion to Comm Dir. is temporary because no one will take the job.
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Trump and his team are going to Camp David this weekend per (Original Post) Ilsa Aug 2017 OP
wow freddyvh Aug 2017 #1
He Went to Camp David in June Leith Aug 2017 #3
I remember that. Ilsa Aug 2017 #6
File under "Wishful thinking" nt COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #2
Sounds like they are taking him to the woodshed Phoenix61 Aug 2017 #4
Almost Everyone has turned on him. Ilsa Aug 2017 #5
Now being reported in the news. Stinky The Clown Aug 2017 #7
Which sounds like a manufactured excuse Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #10
'Clean Up On Aisle Five' spanone Aug 2017 #8
Not looking forward to it, the helicopters fly right over my house when they go MiniMe Aug 2017 #9
So sorry. Maybe some good news Ilsa Aug 2017 #11
Maybe HICKS's job is temp because she might be Senora DRUMPF #4!1 UTUSN Aug 2017 #12

Leith

(7,809 posts)
3. He Went to Camp David in June
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:51 PM
Aug 2017

Word is that he thought it was beautiful. Just a guess, but I bet he thinks that it's a dump. A quote:

"Camp David is very rustic, it's nice, you'd like it," Trump said in an interview with a European journalist just before taking office. "You know how long you'd like it? For about 30 minutes."


Quote from here.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. I remember that.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:20 PM
Aug 2017

This is about needing privacy. Lots of privacy about people coming and going, I bet.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
4. Sounds like they are taking him to the woodshed
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:52 PM
Aug 2017

for single handedly trying to destroy the Republican Party. It's too late. There is too much historical data showing that Twitler was always a racist. They knew it and backed him anyway. They own this.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
5. Almost Everyone has turned on him.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:19 PM
Aug 2017

Most of the CEOs on his two councils have rejected him. He had to "fire" them before the humiliation became an epic Wall Street Journal article.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have voluntarily and independently disavowed his comments. They won't play war games with him anymore, I bet.

Newer hosts on Fox News are gobsmacked and critical.

Everyone knows that Gen. Kelly is babysitting the spoiled, ignorant, tantrumming naked prince.

He can't find anyone to take the Communications Director job except the other woman he's sleeping with. A reporter on Thom Hartmann's show today said that a reporter she knows was asked to take the job, but he/she refused because trump is radioactive. She wouldn't name the person, but had permission to tell the story.

His own grown kids have been oddly silent throughout this.

I think they are going to talk about the Mueller investigation and that it might go away if he quits.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
10. Which sounds like a manufactured excuse
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:41 PM
Aug 2017

since the situation in Afghanistan, to my knowledge, anyway, hasn't altered significantly enough that a decision has to be made NOW; there isn't sufficient urgency to require recalling Pence immediately. It's nothing that couldn't have waited until Monday, anyway. Although Pence DOES need to be present if they're going to pull the 25th Amendment on Trump or force him to resign; taking him somewhere secluded like Camp David and presenting him with an already-printed-out letter of resignation and a pen, and a threat to use the 25th/resign en masse if he doesn't comply, would be a way to do it.

MiniMe

(21,716 posts)
9. Not looking forward to it, the helicopters fly right over my house when they go
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:36 PM
Aug 2017

They always take at least 3 helicopters, and they are loud. I don't live near Camp David, just on the flight path.

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