Dinner of steak and carrots, then cruise missiles

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Ed Pilkington in New York
Friday 7 April 2017 00.02 EDT

At 7pm .. Trump sat down with .. Xi Jinping, and ... around the table were ... Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner .. as was .. Reince Priebus ... Stephen Bannon was also present ...

... less than two hours after .. dinner .. 59 Tomahawk missiles slammed into a Syrian airfield ...

Less than three hours after .. dinner .. Trump was standing in front of a podium .. in .. Mar-a-Lago ...

“Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike,” he said, staring intently at the autocue ...

... Xi’s delegation pulled out .. six minutes after the Tomahawks .. hit their targets.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/07/trumps-dinner-of-steak-and-carrots-then-the-cruise-missiles-struck-syria

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1. Lawmakers urge Trump to engage Congress

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 04/06/17 10:21 PM EDT

... Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.) .. warned that military strikes alone will not unseat .. Assad ...

Pelosi said "The crisis in Syria will not be resolved by one night of airstrikes" ...

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) .. said Trump should have requested approval for the actions from Congress ...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) warned that such attacks could put U.S. troops already stationed in Syria at risk of retaliation ...

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/327733-us-lawmakers-urge-caution-after-us-attack-on-syrian-military

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2. Military strike against Syria

By Barbara Starr and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 12:17 AM ET, Fri April 7, 2017

... Trump's decision marked a dramatic shift in his position on whether the US should take military action against the Syrian President's regime -- which Trump opposed during his campaign for president ...

Briefing reporters late Thursday night, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the strike did not represent a "change in our policy or our posture in Syria," even though the Thursday night strike marked the first time the US had decided to take military action against the Syrian government ...

Russians were present at the base the US struck Thursday night ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-military/

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3. Against bombing Syria before he was for it

William Cummings , USA TODAY
Published 12:31 a.m. ET April 7, 2017 | Updated 1 hour ago

... If Obama attacks Syria and innocent civilians are hurt and killed, he and the U.S. will look very bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2013 ...

How bad has our "leader" made us look on Syria. Stay out of Syria, we don't have the leadership to win wars or even strategize.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2013 ...

The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2013 ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/04/07/trump-tweets-about-syria/100154318/

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4. Oil prices shoot up

April 7, 2017 12:06 am
By Jesse Ferreras

... The price of oil jumped by about a dollar per barrel to $52.70 during after hours trading following news of the attack ...

http://globalnews.ca/news/3363014/oil-prices-donald-trump-syria/

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5. Anyone know where the China delegation went?

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6. Over cooked steak, smothered in ketchup.

Over cooked Drumpf smothered in explosives.