Trump Aides’ Biggest Worry About Europe Trip: Meeting With Putin

[CaliCat 3,957]

I was thinking, how much worse can it really get? When Trump travels and shows how unpresidential he is, America's prestige sinks to a new low. We can all hope that Putin will be a gentleman, and not let his protege Trump make a fool of himself yet once again, before the eyes of the world.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/us/politics/trump-poland-germany-g20-putin.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

WARSAW — President Trump arrived in Europe on Wednesday for three days of diplomacy that will culminate in a meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which has the potential for global repercussions and political fallout back home.

Even his top aides do not know precisely what Mr. Trump will decide to say or do when he and Mr. Putin meet face to face on Friday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit gathering in Hamburg, Germany. And that is what most worries those advisers as well as officials across his administration as Mr. Trump begins his second foreign trip as president, stopping first in Warsaw to give an address on Thursday and then heading to Hamburg.

The highly anticipated conversation with Mr. Putin is in many ways a necessity, given the critical disputes separating the United States and Russia. But it also poses risks for Mr. Trump, who faces a web of investigations into his campaign’s possible links to Russia, as well as questions about his willingness to take on Moscow for its military aggression and election meddling on his behalf. The air of uncertainty about the meeting is only heightened by the president’s propensity for unpredictable utterances and awkward optics.

And it is not the only charged encounter awaiting Mr. Trump this week. Following North Korea’s launch on Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic missile, he also faces new pressure to act on a threat from Pyongyang that has long confounded American presidents, and that he has few appealing ways to address. He is scheduled to meet in Hamburg with President Xi Jinping of China, as he complains that Beijing has not done enough to rein in North Korea.

[eieio 1,594]

There is no need to worry. If you are reading anything that says Trump is worried about it.....it is just fake news.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Putin will eat Trump for breakfast if Trump doesn't bow to him.

[eieio 1,594]

2 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Putin will eat Trump for breakfast if Trump doesn't bow to him.

Lol.

 

kind of like....Trump will be impeached any day now.

 

the left sure likes to fantasize 

[CaliCat 3,957]

8 minutes ago, eieio said:

There is no need to worry. If you are reading anything that says Trump is worried about it.....it is just fake news.

 

Yep. Fake news is what reality is called in this world of alternate facts.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

7 minutes ago, eieio said:

Lol.

 

kind of like....Trump will be impeached any day now.

 

the left sure likes to fantasize 

Yeah because former KGB operative Putin is going to be intimidated by a man child. Putin is going to have a field day unless Donnie nods everything in agreement.

[eieio 1,594]

The trip will go great as usual. He will be greeted in Poland as the last hope for the free world. Trump and Putin will have tough talks....but it will go fine. Trump knows how to do these things. 

[eieio 1,594]

2 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Yeah because former KGB operative Putin is going to be intimidated by a man child. Putin is going to have a field day unless Donnie nods everything in agreement.

Get back to me in a few days.

 

how do you like your crow cooked?

 

you are kind of like that one loon who was predicting Clinton to win by 8% or something....or that this is the end of Trump.

 

Two scoops

Two genders

Two terms

[JimandChristy 1,689]

3 minutes ago, eieio said:

Get back to me in a few days.

 

how do you like your crow cooked?

 

you are kind of like that one loon who was predicting Clinton to win by 8% or something....or that this is the end of Trump.

 

Two scoops

Two genders

Two terms

LOL no it wasn't me, Trump won fair and square but I think it annoys him that a majority of Americans didn't vote for him. Obsessing over the crowd size at his Inauguration, making paranoid claims of system wide voter fraud, his obsession in Obama and trying to undo his legacy, Obama was liked by more Americans, Trump hates that.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, eieio said:

The trip will go great as usual. He will be greeted in Poland as the last hope for the free world. Trump and Putin will have tough talks....but it will go fine. Trump knows how to do these things. 

Do you think Putin will like him? Can the be besties?

[Dashinka 25,897]

3 hours ago, ccneat said:

Do you think Putin will like him? Can the be besties?

I thought they already were besties?  I kept hearing how Trump is Putin's puppet, so why is this such a big deal.

[CaliCat 3,957]

8 hours ago, JimandChristy said:

LOL no it wasn't me, Trump won fair and square but I think it annoys him that a majority of Americans didn't vote for him. Obsessing over the crowd size at his Inauguration, making paranoid claims of system wide voter fraud, his obsession in Obama and trying to undo his legacy, Obama was liked by more Americans, Trump hates that.

 

All the signs of an administration without a mandate. It's like knowing you've lost, but somehow someone managed to get you on the podium. LOL.

[Dashinka 25,897]

2 hours ago, CaliCat said:

 

All the signs of an administration without a mandate. It's like knowing you've lost, but somehow someone managed to get you on the podium. LOL.

Yep, our electoral system put him there.  

 

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Yep, our electoral system put him there.  

 

 

Still, an administration without a mandate from the people. 

[JimandChristy 1,689]

1 hour ago, CaliCat said:

 

Still, an administration without a mandate from the people. 

Majority of Americans were against him from the very beginning. It was up to him to try and bring a proportion of them along with him. He's not even attempted to, all he's done is pander to his base.