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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's team discussed response to North Korea missile test in front of diners at Mar-a-Lago
(CNN)The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in: North Korea had launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, its first challenge to international rules since Trump was sworn in three weeks ago.
The launch, which wasn't expected, presented Trump with one of the first breaking national security incidents of his presidency. It also noisily disrupted what was meant to be an easygoing weekend of high-level male bonding with the more sobering aspects of global diplomacy.
Sitting alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with whom he'd spent most of the day golfing, Trump took the call on a mobile phone at his table, which was set squarely in the middle of the private club's dining area.
As Mar-a-Lago's wealthy members looked on from their tables, and with a keyboard player crooning in the background, Trump and Abe's evening meal quickly morphed into a strategy session, the decision-making on full view to fellow diners, who described it in detail to CNN.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/trump-shinzo-abe-mar-a-lago-north-korea/index.html
Aside from this revelation that if you want to know how the president handles an international crisis, you just need to book dinner at Mar-a-Lago when he's visiting and hope you're lucky, the article also explains Trump's advisers' decision that he would not make the formal statement prepared for him to follow Abe's speech.
JHan
(10,173 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,244 posts)Link to tweet
@anamariecox The people at a public dining room probably have better advice than his staff.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)bdamomma
(63,883 posts)apparently 45 did not have his earpiece in to hear translation of Japanese leader, what a disrespectful POS 45 is, he doesn't know anything just BS people.
mopinko
(70,135 posts)yuck. dripping w dressing. what is it, 1992 there?
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)leftstreet
(36,109 posts)NBachers
(17,122 posts)Final course will be a proud shimmering Jello mold, sporting Suspended Fruit Compote within.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)bacon and blue cheese. (That figure doesn't just happen!)
Yuck.
mopinko
(70,135 posts)and yeah, i am sure at least he gets it w bacon. real bacon, not those fake bacon pieces.
mopinko
(70,135 posts)i saw a description in another thread. it does have bacon and blue cheese crumbles.
it is the trump salad. bwahahahaha.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)Tanuki
(14,919 posts)that might have posed a security risk.
Denzil_DC
(7,244 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 13, 2017, 01:36 AM - Edit history (1)
Donald Trump will hire foreign workers to staff the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., this winter as he did last year.
According to the Palm Beach Post, Trump won approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to hire 64 foreign workers through the H-2B visa program, which allows eligible U.S. employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary jobs.
Trump hired 69 workers through the same program last year.
According to the Palm Beach Post, Trump will pay the staff wages comparable to what he offered last year. Though some will make less than they made last year, most will get a 1 percent raise.
Trump, who built his campaign on hardline immigration policies, faced criticism during the campaign when it was revealed that he hired foreign workers for seasonal jobs at the club.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/309053-trump-will-again-hire-foreign-workers-to-staff-private-resort-in-florida
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,244 posts)Link to tweet
The timing's unclear, but the people milling round his table look a lot more concerned than he does.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)sickening
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)he barely comprehends what's going on. He's literally the dumbest person in the room.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)....."I get to have the little people do all the hard work for me, and then in the end I get to say whether or not to bomb people. It's good to be Emperor."
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)NBachers
(17,122 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)That's them, I assume?
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Will someone please remove this dangerous, idiotic piece of shit from office NOW!