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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:34 PM Aug 2017

Trump to give live speech to the nation Monday night?

I heard a brief mention on the PBS NewsHour Sunday that Trump will be giving a live speech to the nation Monday night for his plans on winning the war in Afghanistan.

Has anyone heard about this?
I 'googled' it and found nothing.

I'm guessing he'll blame the failure to win so far on Obama and Hillary,
call the Taliban "losers",
etc.

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Trump to give live speech to the nation Monday night? (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2017 OP
I heard it on MSNBC kimbutgar Aug 2017 #1
I saw it somewhere too. n/t rzemanfl Aug 2017 #2
He'll wave his tiny ... er ... hands around and posture. Yonnie3 Aug 2017 #3
Maybe he'll put Jared Kushner in command. n/t left-of-center2012 Aug 2017 #5
I hope someone here takes one for the team and watches this nini Aug 2017 #4
not me Yonnie3 Aug 2017 #12
Sorry, only time I've heard him speak was during the debates. Barack_America Aug 2017 #13
Yeah, it's to sell us on more troops going into Afghanistan. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #6
The solar eclipse could be an omen left-of-center2012 Aug 2017 #7
Yeah. It goes something like this: COLGATE4 Aug 2017 #8
Good one, C4! nt July Aug 2017 #10
More opiates for the masses !! Yeeehaw ! C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #9
Well, Trump told us ... left-of-center2012 Aug 2017 #11

kimbutgar

(21,153 posts)
1. I heard it on MSNBC
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:36 PM
Aug 2017

He's trying to get us into Afghanistan to get those precious minerals and sell it to his goober supporters.

Yonnie3

(17,441 posts)
3. He'll wave his tiny ... er ... hands around and posture.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:40 PM
Aug 2017

I hope to hell he's not giving the Afghanistan war to the private sector.

nini

(16,672 posts)
4. I hope someone here takes one for the team and watches this
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:41 PM
Aug 2017

I still can't stomach looking/listening to that creep

Yonnie3

(17,441 posts)
12. not me
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 07:45 PM
Aug 2017

I'll wait for NPR, WaPo or NYT to publish a transcript. NPR sometimes puts up what looks like the closed captions from TV and corrects it as they can.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
6. Yeah, it's to sell us on more troops going into Afghanistan.
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:43 PM
Aug 2017

Maybe he'll go off topic like he did with his infrastructure speech last week at Twitter Tower. Perhaps he'll give us another gift of crazy, racist lies that will make him drop even further in the polls. I hope so.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
8. Yeah. It goes something like this:
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 06:58 PM
Aug 2017

"You know, someone said that 'War is Hell' I'll bet most people didn't know that".

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