Someone please explain why Ivanka & her husband were at Trumps meeting with the Japanese PM

[LibraLiz1973]

This should, IMHO, be EVERYWHERE. Breaking news. Front page. He can't go anywhere or do anything without his family. If Hillary had rolled into things with Chelsea, there would have been rioting. If Barack took Michelle into business meetings... oy vey. This President Elect needs the human equivalent of a wubby blanket to do anything.

He's in so fucking far over his head. Did the Republicans unknowingly vote for Jared Kushner as President?

Wild.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3948262/Japanese-Prime-Minister-Shinzo-Abe-leaves-Trump-Tower-meeting-Donald-Trump-Ivanka-Jared-Kushner.html

Or why Trump needed Melania to hold his hand at the capital when meeting the Rethug leadership last Thursday???
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3925108/First-day-Lady-Melania-Trump-dresses-demurely-black-outfit-travels-Washington-D-C-meet-President-Obama-Michelle-newly-elected-husband-Donald.html


It's fucking creepy that he can't do jack shit without his approved minions at his side.

[radical noodle]

1. He has no attention span

So likely doesn't retain the conversation. Maybe his family stays around to be his eyes and ears.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. That is very likely.....

meaning, yes, I have read of his lack of focus, and understand he does rely on family.
but...still....the idea of his wife or daughter at his side for substantive issues talks???

[elehhhhna]

15. Dementia. Sure didn't need hand holding into his 50's.

Needs it now though.

[LibraLiz1973]

20. I wondered

Because it seems like something my grandfather was doing toward the end of his life. He needed a touchstone, someone to reassure him & remind him what was going on when needed.

[radical noodle]

2. On second thought..

I guess if you plan to be king, you should include those who will inherit the throne.

[elleng]

3. NO!

[KewlKat]

5. the press was not allowed in. Perhaps Baron took the pic?

[LibraLiz1973]

7. I kind of love that he's giving the finger to the press

They get what they deserve by giving him free and wall-to-wall coverage 24/7.

[eShirl]

25. ultimately giving the finger to us, you know

[Maru Kitteh]

27. Yeah, that's awesome.

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It's such a hoot to have a prez elect who is already actively oppressing the 4th estate because his narcissism will not countenance any evaluation short of fawning praise and adulation. It bids so well for coming events.

News flash for the brain surgeons among us; when Trump tells the press to fuck off, he's telling YOU to fuck off. When he suppresses the free press it is your freedom he finds untenable.

Holding the media accountable is one thing; "loving" Trump's actions against them is quite another, and ill-conceived thing altogether.

[LibraLiz1973]

28. Chill. I am WELL AWARE of what his finger to the press means

And you know what?
I think it's good.
In the long run.
The last President who so blatantly disregarded and disrespected the press was none other than Dick Nixon.
How'd that work out again?

Let's not pretend that Trump would be doing anything other than giving us the finger, even if he WAS letting the press in the way he is supposed to. Bottom line, they are responsible for this. Now they can deal with the bullshit the rest of us are going to have to.

I'm about the long term. If him shafting them brings a return of TRUE journalism...
How is that bad?

[kcr]

30. Right. How did that work out again?

You think ol' Dicky was great? Yeah, he was kicked out, but he still managed to leave quite the legacy even in that short period of time.

[LibraLiz1973]

36. Do you really imagine Trump is going to do well?

That somehow he will exceed expectations? Because he's not going to. And it would be to our benefit as Americans if the press WOKE THE FUCK UP and did some actual reporting.

[wordpix]

47. His legacy was expanding the Vietnam War, Agent Orange &

hundreds of thousands dead for no reason. Agent Orange contamination causing birth defects even today. Yes, he normalized relations with China, but that was for the purpose of American money interests, giving us the disappearance of manufacturing and jobs in the US

[Island Blue]

6. After the meeting, she sold them

some tacky gold sparkle bracelets.

[Hekate]

8. Look at that table. There's Perrier, bottled water; no glasses, no coffee service, no cookie tray

THIS is hospitality to the prime minister of an important ally? This is insulting and classless.

Peasants in mud huts would know better.

[DesertFlower]

9. good point. nt

[MADem]

14. Well, the first "fail" is entertaining him in a room that looks like a

French whorehouse anteroom.

[elehhhhna]

17. OMG, he nicked that shit out of one of his hotels!

Watch him expense it off to us as a $40,000 catering spread.

And what do you expect when his Third Lady is a loose chippie peasant?

[phylny]

24. I still love your "third lady" moniker. n/t

[uponit7771]

35. 1, "Third Lady.."

[Little Star]

38. omg! The Third Lady, lol ............

I'm gonna be using this one. Thanks elehhhhna !

[riversedge]

26. Ah but the image of his home is of a Palace-!!-and it is real.

[mfcorey1]

32. A bit gaudy to me! He must have been trying to make a sale of some

of his property.

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. I'd need copious amounts of sake to get through that ordeal.

Poor PM Abe.

[JI7]

10. so the son in law can explain to him what went on when they are in private

[ronnie624]

19. 1

There is no way he understands the issues he will be faced with.

[DesertFlower]

12. look at the surroundings.

Ongepatshket

[Doreen]

13. I had a feeling more than half a year ago

that the children of the corn were running for president with Trump. We have 4 presidential elects. Most dictators keep it in the family you know.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

16. He's going around the State department...

...having conversations on wholly unsecured lines and having people without the proper clearance in these meetings with heads of state.

This is flat-out dangerous for the country for him to do any of this. And his veep-elect NaziPrick isn't even bothering to tell him to knock this shit off.

Ivanka and her husband should have been nowhere near that meeting, which shouldn't have taken place in the first damn place.

*sighs* Gonna be a long four years. Unless he gets us nuked first.

[LibraLiz1973]

21. You're exactly right

He clearly believes the rules DO NOT apply to him

[Equinox Moon]

18. It's like a scene out of the "Godfather"

[womanofthehills]

22. In that last photo, Mike Pense has that dumb smile he always has

He's kind of like Kellyanne - the perpetual smile - gross!!

[Skittles]

23. extreme narcissist, in a job completely out of his depth

[lostnfound]

29. Ryan and pence etc are suffering fate worse than death

Being a republican politician right now must be nauseating

[onethatcares]

31. first pic

he's saying, "No shit, you really speak Japanese?"

Second, "I got most of this crap at DejaVu furniture store in Iraq"

Third, "Gaud, I just shit my pants and no one said anything. "

[mfcorey1]

33. Please notice that Ivanka is positioned right in front of the

Prime Minister, a position that her father should have had. Sexual or subliminal message?

[uponit7771]

34. Trump is childishly insecure

[SticksnStones]

37. Sweet Jesus! He's serving bottles of Trump brand water...

[greatauntoftriplets]

40. Probably bottled in Flint.

[LibraLiz1973]

45. He's so tacky. It's creepy the way he needs to see his name on everything.

Fucking nut job

[blueseas]

41. Where is this?

At his palace?

[LP2K12]

42. They're grooming her...

People joked about Ivanka running. At certain points she had a higher rating than him during the campaigning. Now he's going to keep her in front of the cameras and in front of the GOP.

Just my two cents.

[spanone]

43. ...and trump family sits in on our nation's business...what thee fuck?

[Coyotl]

44. The Alzheimer's.

[McCamy Taylor]

46. Because they are special?

[Native]

48. Not to mention this was a tremendous breach of protocol that offended the Japanese!

Tweets:
Kurt Eichenwald ‏@kurteichenwald Nov 18
Japanese offended today. Trump letting his non-gov daughter attend meeting with Japanese PM considered a tremendous breach of protocol.

Kurt Eichenwald ‏@kurteichenwald Nov 18
Countries w/ important but complex protocol rules: Japan, China, Saudi Arabia. If Trump lumbers around w/o consulting experts, will be bad.