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underpants

(182,739 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:35 PM Mar 2020

Missing Accomplished _______ Pics of Trump in Norfolk

Oh you'll be seeing these when his campaign tries to re-write history.














Trump Sees Off Naval Hospital Ship in Virginia, Going Against Travel Warnings

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/politics/trump-virginia-comfort-coronavirus.html

Mr. Trump delivered his speech in front of a small audience of about a dozen military officials, as well as a handful of White House aides who traveled with him. But the pared-down event was filled with pageantry. The president arrived to the tune of “Hail to the Chief.” He spoke behind a podium with a presidential seal, and when he was finished, he stood next to the Defense Secretary, Mark T. Esper, and saluted the ship as it pushed off from the pier.

On Friday, Mr. Trump defended his decision to see off the ship as a patriotic show of support. “I have spirit for the country,” the president said at a news conference. “I’m not going to be jumping around in a huddle.”

“It’s like a tiny trip,” he continued. “I think it’s a good thing when I go over there and I say thank you. We’ll be careful.”


“We don’t need Donald Trump in Virginia doing a photo op,” Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic governor of Virginia, said in an interview. “We need respirators and we need masks, like every other state in the country. He ought to be staying in Washington, in his job. It’s a total waste of time.” Mr. McAuliffe said that a presidential visit to a naval base meant that officials who needed to be addressing a public health crisis had to instead “spend their time doing a Trump re-election photo op. He ought to stop the politicking and lead the nation.”

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Brother Mythos

(1,442 posts)
14. So true. Individual-1's life is all about greed and photo ops.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 07:13 PM
Mar 2020

We're all just marks and props to that sociopath.

elleng

(130,861 posts)
2. "We don't need Donald Trump in Virginia doing a photo op."
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:40 PM
Mar 2020

'Rumor' has it he'll meet the ship in New York harbor.

That's one I'd like to see.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. Get your fat ass to work, you lazy POS!
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:41 PM
Mar 2020

Do something constructive for once! God, he is such a useless asshole!

5. Good. The more he gets out of the WH the more chance he has to be exposed to the virus.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:44 PM
Mar 2020

The thought of Fat Donnie having a long swap jammed painfully up his nose brightens my day. The idea of a positive result has me dancing with the family dog.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
9. I want to see the pics where Chump has to stand and salute
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 04:03 PM
Mar 2020

the bodies of those who die from COVID-19. Those are the pics that will have some real meaning.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
12. The wave from President Ratshit was exactly what the ship needed, to get on it's way.
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 06:38 PM
Mar 2020

It would have been incapable of sailing, without him there to wave bon voyage.

nuxvomica

(12,419 posts)
15. Is this the same ship reported to have turned back to port?
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 07:19 PM
Mar 2020

And if so, was this pageantry the reason why?

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