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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/french-officials-thwart-trump-putin-meeting-scrapping-lunch-seating-arrangements-last-minute-reportFrench officials reportedly threw a wrench into a potential lunch meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin on Sunday by seating the two away from each other.
The BBC reported that French officials made a last minute change to lunch seating arrangements after the two shook hands at a World War I remembrance.
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I'd say that Macron is tending to European security right now.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,973 posts)Looking after Trump is like babysitting an unusually bratty three-year-old.
BigmanPigman
(51,650 posts)He sat across from Putin but still talked to him over dinner.
Hours into a dinner with world leaders who had gathered for the Group of 20 summit meeting, President Trump left his chair at the sprawling banquet table and headed to where President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was seated.
The two presidents had met earlier in the day for the first time and, as the White House put it, had developed a rapport even as they talked about Russias interference in the United States 2016 elections.The July 7 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, was the single most scrutinized of the Trump presidency. But it turned out there was another encounter: a one-on-one discussion over dinner that lasted as long as an hour and relied solely on a Kremlin-provided interpreter.
No presidential relationship has been more dissected than the one between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, a dynamic only heightened by the swirl of investigations into whether Mr. Trumps campaign colluded with Russia to sway the election in his favor. Nevertheless, the meeting was confirmed by the White House only on Tuesday, after reports surfaced that some of the guests had been surprised that it occurred.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/trump-putin-undisclosed-meeting.html
Gothmog
(145,829 posts)Julian Englis
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(12,895 posts)FakeNoose
(32,877 posts)world wide wally
(21,759 posts)LakeArenal
(28,864 posts)Except that its world leaders.
Trump is an embarrassment in every single tiny inch.
RainCaster
(10,949 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)raging moderate
(4,317 posts)Merci beaucoup.
spooky3
(34,524 posts)DU won't let me add the accent.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)And with a weakened Merekel, he has to.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)And packed plenty of ChapStick to make sure that his lips wouldn't scratch up Vlad's tender areas.