Trump to meet with Joint Chiefs at Camp David

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

President Trump said Friday that he would meet the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Camp David this weekend.

“I am going to Camp David, a meeting, big meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Trump said during an interview on “Fox & Friends in response to a question about how he planned to spend Mother’s Day. “Camp David is this very special place that nobody ever gets to see but it’s a great work environment.”

Trump didn’t elaborate on the subject matter of his meetings with military officials, but said they would be discussing “different things.” The visit would mark Trump's second weekend in a row spent at the country retreat in Maryland.

“We’re going to have meetings on different things. Our military has never looked better,” Trump said. “We’ve never had the kind of equipment that we have now.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/496767-trump-to-meet-with-joint-chiefs-at-camp-david

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Vice President Mike Pence has also resumed regular travel and will visit Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday to host a discussion with faith leaders about opening houses of worship amid the pandemic and meet with agricultural and food supply leaders.

[underpants]

1. The. Question. Was. About. Mothers. Day.

Video here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13408064

[redstatebluegirl]

2. He HATES Camp David!

Can you imagine a place with less gold drapes and carpets than Camp David? No gold bathroom either. So rustic! What a huge fibber he is.

[Botany]

7. This is not his kind of place

But he is gonna have a meeting a big meeting in a great work environment. (the man is a loon)

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. OMG, I'd love it for that gorgeous pool alone!

[Botany]

15. And kept heated in the winter too.

Me I could go cross country skiing, then take a dip into the pool, and then sit by a
campfire on the stone patio or by the fireplace inside one of the cabins.

I have heard that Trump and w Bush never really liked it but other Presidents
loved it. The place is class as were FDR and Ike who helped to build it.

But not to worry Trump is gonna have a meeting a big meeting there. The man
is a loon.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Spanky probably thinks that staying at the Ritz is roughing it.

Dubya wouldn't have liked it because there was no brush to do whatever he did to brush.

I'd like to walk through those woods. There probably are streams flowing through those woods, too. Very scenic and gorgeous in spring.

"Loon" is being polite.

[Botany]

19. Camp David pix

https://www.businessinsider.com/camp-david-photos-tour-president-2018-2

The one of Obama playing with squirt guns & his daughter makes me happy and yet sad.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Thanks for those!

Yes, the one of Obama with a super-soaker and playing with his daughters is so far away from Spanky's attitude towards Barron. The difference is night and day.

[Botany]

23. The picture of President Obama playing with his daughters shows me one thing:

Love. I cherish the memory of playing with my son at our local pool. He is married
and a dad now.

BTW Barack's daughters one @ Harvard and one @ the University of Michigan.

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. He was clearly a hands-on father, and there was a lot of love in that family.

I picture the servants bringing Barron down to see his father for five minutes a day. Impossible to imagine him hugging the boy or tickling him while Barron sat on his lap.

The Obama daughters are high achievers and we'll likely hear a lot about them in their eventual careers.

[Botany]

28. I can just see Granddad Barack and "Grandpop" Joe B. playing with Sasha and Malia's kids as ....

.... Michele and Jill just shake their heads and laugh. Both Barack and Joe would be on the floor
with the babies.

Dear God I need this nightmare behind all of us.

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. That'll be a sight to see.

They'll both be excellent grandfathers (and their wives doting grandmothers, though Jill Biden already is -- Joe, too).

Yes, drumpf needs to be gone.

[NNadir]

36. What a difference between that humorless mindless bastard and a real President these pictures show.

President Obama with world leaders watching a sporting event between Britain and Germany ("Football" what else):

https://i.insider.com/5a81e4d4d03072a30c8b4734?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp

The immoral moron and his crime Mob Capos:

https://i.insider.com/5a81e6a9d030722f008b45dc?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp

One man shows love, the other hatred.

How far we've fallen...

[Kaiserguy]

33. The real question is what is the meeting about

is he going to ask the Joint Chiefs if they will support a coup with Trump being installed as dictator for life.

[mahannah]

3. "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

"Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."
- Julia Ward Howe (happy Mother's Day)

[global1]

4. Is He Planning A War?....nt

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Invade .... Venezuela? Mexico? Viva Max!

Where is Peter Ustinov when you need him?

[SergeStorms]

35. Iran.

n/t

[machoneman]

5. Start a war to deflect from his COVID-19 failures! I hope not......

but the Red Don will do ANYTHING at this stage to deflect from the just released massive unemployment numbers, raging death rates, food banks out of food and the rising anger of his disastrous handling of the pandemic.

[moreland01]

6. My guess

Flynn will be their new boss by Monday.

[Scarsdale]

8. Didn't Jarvanka hold an anniversary

party there recently? What - couldn't they afford the prices at tRump Hotel in DC? At Camp David, everything would be FREE, just the way the tRumps like it. Let taxpayers foot the bills. So the wives of the joint Chiefs have to forget Mother's Day, so the orange toddler can rant and rave about Jyna?

[AC_Mem]

9. So - if he was exposed and not yet symptomatic

he is now going to get on a plane with a completely different bunch of government workers, take them to another location and potentially - if he was infected - spread the virus far and wide. Rather than do the right thing, which would be to quarantine for 14 days after being exposed to someone who tested positive, as per his own rules, and have a Zoom meeting - like everyone else is who is trying to keep this virus from spreading.

Good to know we have such intelligent leadership at the top (sarcasm).

NOVEMBER PLEASE HURRY UP!!!

[yankee87]

10. Purge?

https://www.salon.com/2019/01/11/trumps-next-move-purging-the-u-s-military_partner/

Is 45 getting ready for a purge of the military? I hate to seem like I am wearing a tin foil hat, but is he planning on a coup when he loses the election? This was tried when Roosevelt was president.

[ArizonaLib]

26. After his bleach 'advice' no one will ever say anything is off the table

I understand that when Nixon was facing impeachment, the military was preparing to enforce congressional will vs the president. I don't think he would be planning a purge, but wants desperately to go into the election as a wartime president. The president can issue whatever orders he wishes, but those generals know there will be a change in command soon and will refuse to do anything stupid that they will have to answer for less than a year from now. Having said that, I think the president wants to deploy the military to prepare for civil unrest over the summer. While people need to rely on that their odds of being safe are better to stay home, but when household money runs out, either congress pays out or people have to find a way to feed their families. The 1% in this country would rather dump milk and allow food to rot than give it to families. The 1% doesn't want to pay out without labor production. If he forces people leave their homes in mass, he will use the military to create more theater.

Also, he has been dying for a 4th of July parade. He got his flyovers last week, which were not covered in the media as controversial, so my best guess is that one of those many topics will include military parades either limited to Washington DC or coming to an area near many of us. Those crowds provide rallying points for those likely to be in his base.

[yankee87]

31. 45's Parade

You are so right, his ego is so fragile he needs people to praise him. My brother-in-law had a very small dealing with him many years ago in New York, and said he was like that even back then. Again, it was just a mall issue.
Also, I agree his rallies will again start, health consequences be damned,

[Zoonart]

30. Bend the knee... kiss the ring or

out you go.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. "Sir, we have no ammo." NT

[ArizonaLib]

27. Is he planning military parades to follow those fly overs he had last week?

They attract crowds of right wingers and others who think they are supporting the front line medical workers. Those missions are costly and are not using money otherwise budgeted for other training. Flying over civilian populations is not training for anything.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. With luck, the wives of the Joint Chiefs are mightily pissed off.

But, being good military wives, they may well be used to it and so will grin and bear it.

[Turbineguy]

17. The new Oath, a slightly modified version of this:

"I swear loyalty to the Reich's constitution and pledge, that I as a courageous soldier always want to protect the German Reich and its legal institutions, (and) be obedient to the Reich President and to my superiors."

[Aristus]

18. Jesus! EVERYTHING is a hustle with this clown.

It couldn't just be a meeting; it had to be a 'big meeting'.

[Botany]

22. So do you want the zinc undercoating for your new car. The manger said you can have it @ cost.

" ...a meeting, big meeting in a great work environment.”

The man as you say is always on the hustle.

[nitpicker]

20. I bet he wants to golf again, probably Sunday, at his VA golf course

Saturday will be cold and windy.

[Submariner]

24. Planning for Iran invasion/bombing this autumn

in order to cancel election during height of his wag the dog war.

[Hugin]

29. Incoming diversion in 3... 2... 1...

But, a diversion from what? Venezuela? COVID? Jobs #s? Flynn? What?

[Paladin]

34. "Seven Days In May" redux. (nt)

[tanyev]

37. "A very big, very important meeting because I am the very important president."

[BillyBobBrilliant]

38. Maybe we will have a

Claus von Stauffenberg show up

[rickford66]

39. Yup. Re-election campaign plans