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Pageantry as Syria strikes unfolded
By JOSH DAWSEY
04/07/17 08:42 AM EDT
After .. dinner .. Trump delivered a message to .. Xi ... The United States was unleashing 59 missiles into a Syrian airbase ...
Trump was jovial throughout and gave no indication at the dinner he had ordered the strike hours earlier, until the Chinese president was leaving just before 9 ...
... Trump looked uncomfortable when striding to the cameras around 9:15. He sometimes avoided eye contact with assembled cameras -- a rarity for a president who always knows when the red light is blinking. He gave very short remarks, did not use hyperbole and stuck to the Teleprompter. He seemed eager to leave, ignoring questions ...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-syria-strikes-behind-the-scenes-236991
