Spicer says Trump is a strategic golfer. http://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/heres-how-sean-spicer-defended-president-donald-trumps-frequent-golf-outings/
It could be said that Trump is also a strategic diner. He and the secret service jostled the nuclear football around quite well at the Mar-a-Lago mansion dinner with the PM of Japan after N. Korea shot a missile over Japan.
Trump conjures up thoughts of the old joke about medical doctors. How do you get doctors closer to their patients? Move the hospital beds to the golf courses. Forget about the nuclear football and expand on strategic golf. Trump needs the U.S. military to develop a special Star Wars weapon whereby Trump can strike a special warhead golf ball at an incoming ICBM and destroy it. SDGI (Strategic Defense Golf Initiative).
Rex Tillerson, the award winning buddy of Putin, will skip his first scheduled meeting with NATO this April 5/6, instead he'll go to Moscow, Russia later in the month!
You make it sound like it's one or the other. It could have been both and he just decided to skip one.
Except this administration has been very pointed and direct in how they feel about NATO and pretty shady thus far regarding their dealings with Russia
So why skip the NATO meeting and go to Moscow? This sends a signal to our NATO allies that Russia is more important than they are.
FBI bugged Trump Tower while probing Russian gambling ring By Bruce Golding March 21, 2017 | 1:45pm | Updated http://nypost.com/2017/03/21/fbi-bugged-trump-tower-while-probing-russian-gambling-ring/ excerpt: "There’s truth to President Trump’s claim that his iconic Midtown skyscraper was wiretapped during the Obama administration — only Trump wasn’t the target. The FBI listened in on phone conversations and monitored text messages for two years ending in 2013 while probing a sports-betting and money-laundering ring tied to the Russian mob that operated out of a swanky pad in Trump Tower, ABC News reported Tuesday."
I didn't look up to see if he said why, a simple reason why someone would do such a thing is he had both booked and cant make one but can make another.
Ryancare pretty much destroys all chances of repealing Obamacare. And will hand over more seats to the democrats in 3018
In my opinion Trump needs to contact Russia but can't go there himself. He can't talk to Putin any way but in person for fear of being "wire tapped", remember how paranoid he is. But, again he can't go there as he is under investigation for Russian ties. So is Tillerson but Trump can send him as he is expendable. Ergo he sends Putin's second tier puppet, Tillerson, to get orders from Putin the puppet master. Putin needs to pull Trump's strings so Tillerson will convey any messages that need to be exchanged. Of course this is all conjecture on my part, but who cares? If Trump can spout ridiculous conspiracy theories, so can I. I just don't have a Twitter account. Here's what the Washington Post sez: Tillerson visit to Moscow appears to be a stand-in for a Trump-Putin meeting
Perfectly rational reason for the trip to Russia. I wasn't questioning that on its own though. The original comment put the NATO trip hand in hand with the Russian one. He still could have a legitimate reason for cancelling that one.
Trump settles lawsuits quickly when it's the Russian mob living at his Trump Tower. It's a far cry from the lawsuit filed against him by the Polish undocumented immigrant construction workers that Trump fought for 15 years. http://nypost.com/2017/03/21/fbi-bugged-trump-tower-while-probing-russian-gambling-ring/ excerpt about Russian mobster Trincher who was living at Trump Tower:: "While Trincher was under surveillance in 2012, he and his wife sued Trump Tower Condominium and a construction company over a water leak that led to the growth of mold in their guest room. The suit — which sought more than $6 million over damage to custom wall panels, “very valuable furniture” and an “extremely rare silk rug” — was settled for an undisclosed amount less than a week later, court records show."
^^^ He knows who (Russia) butters his bread (and from his appearance, he quite enjoys butter)... and it isn't the poor Polish immigrant construction workers he didn't even pay a living wage to that he got over here to build his building. He doesn't go to intelligence briefings. He consistently lies, tweets lies (or alternative facts lol!) and aggressively alienates our (once upon a time) allies. He is proposing to cut out help for the poorest and most needy, as well as things that would greatly benefit our posterity. I'd bet anything his ignorant ass couldn't pass a basic civics class, and certainly not a history class. Forget the constitution...he'd have to get one of his "great and talented legal minds" to explain the bare basics. He is maintaining this ridiculous allegation of Obama wiretapping Trump towers, despite the being told over and over by his very own people that there is NO EVIDENCE of this. Seriously, what the hell has to happen for him to get in trouble presidential wise, or can anybody even make him ACT "presidential" - such as going to intelligence briefings, not constantly tweet lies and innuendo that can never be backed up with facts. Can ANY legal action be taken against him?
Hmmmm I realize I meant to hit 2018, but this was in response to my post about Paul Ryan's healthcare reform. Where'd it go?