WH: Trump's Formal G-20 Meetings With Turkey, South Korea Canceled

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo/The AP



By Associated Press
November 29, 2018 12:55 pm

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Donald Trump will speak informally with the leaders of Turkey and South Korea at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina rather than in formal meetings.

Trump will talk informally with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the G-20 summit.

Sanders spoke to reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One. She did not say why the meetings have been downgraded.

Shortly after leaving the White House for the summit, Trump tweeted that he had canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian vessels.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-g-20-meeting-cancelation-turkey-south-korea

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why is he even going? He only makes an ass of himself and embarrasses us

whenever he attends these international meetings.

[Apollyonus]

2. Yep. He should stay home.

His followers are becoming numb to his making an ass of himself already

[blugbox]

4. At this point, I'd say let him suffer the jet-lag

Hopefully that's all he gets out of this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Not much jet lag staying in the same hemisphere.

The time difference between D.C. and Buenos Aires is only 2 hours. But since it's summer there, maybe he can get in a bit of golf.

[blugbox]

11. Damn

Well it's a total waste of money then. We know he won't do a single actual you know... presidential job function whatsoever.

Yeah my brain totally glossed over the Argentina thing... I guess I'm no stable genius haha

[Anza404]

5. Because Argentina has over 280 golf courses

[SeattleVet]

3. How much is this costing us, to send him there to NOT have meetings?

Maybe we should just have him use Skype for the remainder of his time in office.

[Hassler]

6. He's going to spend the entire time eating Big Macs.

[lagomorph777]

21. I hope so. That should further clog his coronary arteries.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Hoarse Whisperer unrolled thread on this very type of thing

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1068210127818420224.html

[yonder]

16. +1

[displacedtexan]

8. Trump is already glued to the TV

and will be watching the news non-stop. Thus, no time for meetings.

[FloridaBlues]

10. Save us a lot of money and don't go!

[edbermac]

12. Is it raining again?

[RockRaven]

13. Translation: "He's going to be too preoccupied w/ pouting to do even his lame flash-card prep work"

womp womp

[Bayard]

14. Pretty big

"he had canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian vessels."

[mastermind]

15. I see they just raided tRumps tax attorneys office in Chicago nt

[lagomorph777]

20. WTF? Spam.

Welcome to DU. Please don't spam.

[avebury]

17. Since Turkey is really pissed off a Trump over the Khashoggi murder

I think that he would look for any excuse to avoid a formal meeting with them.

[KCDebbie]

18. When will it be announced that the rest of DT's presidency

Has been cancelled?

[lagomorph777]

19. Everybody is cancelling their meetings with Trump because they know he's about to disappear.

Either that, or they know he'll screw them somehow.

[Takket]

22. Must need more "executive time"

Spending millions to fly there so he can watch Fox News and eat fried chicken in the hotel room.

[Initech]

23. Gee, you'd think Putin would want all of his stooges in the same room together...