Trump Nixes Plan to Visit FBI Headquarters After Comey Firing: Officials

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

President Donald Trump's plan to visit the FBI in an attempt to boost morale has been scrapped, according to administration officials.

After his controversial firing of FBI Director James Comey, Trump was told it was not likely he would be warmly welcomed.

FBI agents told NBC News that while many of them voted for Trump, after he unceremoniously fired a very popular director few were ready to greet the president at the bureau with open arms.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-not-planning-visit-fbi-headquarters-after-comey-firing-spokesperson-n757771

[underpants]

1. To boost morale

[SoCalMusicLover]

4. We Need Guys Like Anderson To Go Even Further

He was critical of the blonde "bombshell," but it's time to go farther.

The news media is continually attacked, but like little puppies, they keep coming back. It's like Animal House...."Thank you sir, may I have another?"

I wish they would just lay it on the line, and call these people what they are. LIARS & FRAUDS. Kelly Ann is barely qualified to be an office manager, let alone a member of the White House team. She's truly an utter idiot and mouthpiece, who it's an embarrassment to have representing our government in any form.

In addition to doing eye rolls, it's time to call them on their BS, and continue to do it EVERY SINGLE TIME they come on these shows to spew their "talking point Garbage."

[underpants]

8. I've actually been tuning back in and some of the media are doing their job

Tapper
Chris Cuomo - he's great
Even AC didn't have Jeffrey Lord on until he Skype in really late into the show.

[SoCalMusicLover]

10. If The Press Had Any Cajones, They Would Make Guests Fear Coming On

The press is so concerned with being kept out of the loop, that they play nice far too often. Their whole response to the "fake news" think is sad. Lay it on the line, and stand up for yourselves and the American people....you know, YOUR VIEWERS.

Make it so not a single repub wants to appear anywhere except Fox. Make the WH press conference an all out attack, instead of friendly questions, which elicit either talking point responses, or "no comments."

[underpants]

15. I agree

Allowing pure nonsense to take up 25% of airtime.

[iluvtennis]

2. How do you spell C*O*W*A*R*D

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Trumpy has always been a coward. He ALWAYS BACKS AWAY FROM CONFLICT,

if he anticipates that he's not in complete control.

He runs.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Thanks brooklyn

Here is more on this topic of The Summer of Republican Discontentment:

Kori Schake claims to be a “Never Trump” Republican and states she stands by it.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/10/the-bonfire-of-donald-trumps-vanities-intl-implications-of-fbi-james-comey-firing/

With the reckless, fishy sacking of James Comey, President Trump’s domestic behavior has become more than an embarrassment — it’s an international liability.

Voice
The Bonfire of Donald Trump’s Vanities
Kori Schake, Foreign Policy Magazine Wed, May 10
……snip
First, it incurs an opportunity cost of much that might otherwise be accomplished — worthwhile policy initiatives undertaken, explaining decisions about the war in Afghanistan, or building support for the economic analysis undergirding the president’s budget. Our national attention will continue to be consumed by bonfires of the president’s vanity. It’s sucking the air out of so many important issues we should be carefully considering, like how to knit together our North Korea policy with the dovish bent of the newly elected president of South Korea, or whether sending additional forces to Afghanistan are a continuation of existing strategy or harbinger of a new direction in that 16-year war.
….snip
Second, it makes more difficult support from democratic allies for the President’s initiatives. President Trump’s behavior looks more like autocratic Turkey or Russia than it does the Netherlands or Estonia; that drives up the domestic cost to allied governments for agreeing to our requests. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to former President Barack Obama to speak at the Brandenburg Gate just before the NATO summit (at which Trump will be attending) is a taste of things to come. It will make European and North American leaders, our closest friends and steadiest partners, hesitate to associate themselves with the new president of the United States. Germany’s Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron are already being championed as the new leaders of the free world; our president will need their support more than they will need his.

[tenorly]

6. The must have told him he couldn't bring his clapping seals with him, like he did at the CIA.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Trump cancelled his plans to handout electoral college maps in front of their Wall of Honor?

After the Comey fallout, maybe he has started to listen to someone when they tell him he has a bad idea.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. So arrogant they're tone deaf

Like Chief Orange was going to boost morale, yeah, right

[JHB]

11. He's afraid that if he goes on their turf they'll cuff him...

"Excuse me, sir, but as long as you're here...<click>"

[jmowreader]

12. Mr. Trump, would you like to see our new firing range?

[BHDem53]

13. Wimpy Wimpy Wimpy

[Liberal In Red State]

14. Take care when spreading the love to the FBI - remember the cabal in the NY Office that was

forwarding info to Giuliani to that HRC would not win! I don't believe anyone in the agency is on the up and up! I want a special prosecutor like David Boies from Bush v Gore! We'll probably get Ted Olsen!