Trump Flying to Europe for WW1 Centenary, Will Skip 'Global Cooperation' Meeting

[babylonsister]

#notmyprez


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-flies-to-europe-for-ww1-centenary-skips-global-cooperation-meeting?ref=home

Trump Flying to Europe for WW1 Centenary, Will Skip ‘Global Cooperation’ Meeting
Reuters / Tatyana Zenkovich

It’s a bit of symbolism that’s almost too on the nose—but leaders from around the world will meet in France on Saturday for a meeting on global cooperation, without Donald Trump. The president will fly in for the centennial commemoration of the end of World War I, but will skip the Paris Peace Forum hosted by French leader Emmanuel Macron. He’ll reportedly hold a one-on-one with Macron and attend ceremonies and meals with other leaders—including Russian President Vladimir Putin—but he’ll leave before the global cooperation meeting, organized by Macron as the focal point of the gathering. Trump declared in August that he would attend the ceremonies after he said Washington municipal authorities had given a “ridiculously high” cost for a military parade he had wanted to stage on Nov. 11. The aim of the forum is to avoid war by promoting global cooperation.

[spanone]

1. I imagine the rest of the world is relieved he won't be there.

[PatSeg]

8. My thoughts as well

and Trump probably knows it too.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Another Punk Move. . .

. . .by a total punk.

[Squinch]

3. That's because he knows he can't keep up intellectually with the other attendees.

[Jersey Devil]

4. I hope Junior is indicted while AF-1 is over the mid-Atlantic

Maybe someone can smuggle out the live video on AF-1 of Trump throwing stuff all over the cabin during the flight.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. "Sorry everyone we have to turn around."

“I have to go bail my idiot son out.”

[sunonmars]

6. I wonder has he taken Jr along to stop him getting arrested.

[OnDoutside]

7. Putin can tell him how it went, later.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. That shouldn't surprise anyone. He doesn't know the meaning of the word.

[BSdetect]

10. Both my grandfathers survived service in WW1 and I don't want cadet bonespurs soiling their memory

with his presence at the commenaration.