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global1

(25,247 posts)
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:04 PM Jun 2017

What's With This Buses To The White House Thing?.....

Why doesn't Trump make the trip up to the Capitol Building vs schlepping 50 Senators to the WH? Isn't that kind of risky having all of them on a bus that is like a sitting duck as it drives down Pennsylvania Ave?

Is Trump too lazy to take the trip himself?

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What's With This Buses To The White House Thing?..... (Original Post) global1 Jun 2017 OP
He's getting kickbacks on the bus rentals? FSogol Jun 2017 #1
Good answers. Lindsay Jun 2017 #2
Maybe he figured it would be easier than this BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #2
All those celebratory kegs of beer would go stale if just left Buns_of_Fire Jun 2017 #4
Stale Bud Light? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #6
The emperor doesn't go to people Hong Kong Cavalier Jun 2017 #5
I don't get why any Senators went. They are co-equals with the President and this... TreasonousBastard Jun 2017 #7
They must hate him. smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #8
Hint 1: The machine guns on the WH roof aren't aimed outward anymore. Buns_of_Fire Jun 2017 #9
The King does not travel to the rabble. kairos12 Jun 2017 #10
He can't waddle his fat ass up to Congress left-of-center2012 Jun 2017 #11
Uhhhh.... he drove a golf cart 700 yards at the G-7..... alittlelark Jun 2017 #12
It's all theatre to him and the staging is to make it OldHippieChick Jun 2017 #13
When did this happen? janx Jun 2017 #14
Not sure what you mean OldHippieChick Jun 2017 #15
What's with trips PERIOD BruceWane Jun 2017 #16

FSogol

(45,485 posts)
1. He's getting kickbacks on the bus rentals?
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:06 PM
Jun 2017

Or he's a lazy piece of shit who thinks the optics make him look powerful.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
4. All those celebratory kegs of beer would go stale if just left
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:11 PM
Jun 2017

sitting there until after their semi-monthly vacation. Might as well drink it up now.

Hong Kong Cavalier

(4,572 posts)
5. The emperor doesn't go to people
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:13 PM
Jun 2017

People come to him. That's what he thinks.

And I'm kind of thinking that he's seriously thinking/hoping that something rids him of these meddlesome Senators.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
7. I don't get why any Senators went. They are co-equals with the President and this...
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:15 PM
Jun 2017

is too much like paying obeisance to the Emperor.

Even Republicans should be insulted.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. They must hate him.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:18 PM
Jun 2017

How humiliating! Making them pile into buses like a bunch of school children on a field trip so they can come and kiss his ring. He's such a horse's ass!

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
9. Hint 1: The machine guns on the WH roof aren't aimed outward anymore.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:21 PM
Jun 2017

Hint 2: Listen for the slight hissing sound coming from those overhead nozzles.

Naw, he's just lazy and arrogant. He figures they all work for him and he can just snap his fingers and order them to peel him a grape.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
11. He can't waddle his fat ass up to Congress
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 05:18 PM
Jun 2017

Plus it would be demeaning to him to go to them,
and better P.R. showing them coming to him.

alittlelark

(18,890 posts)
12. Uhhhh.... he drove a golf cart 700 yards at the G-7.....
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jun 2017


While the other 6 HEALTHY G7 members took a stroll...............


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OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
13. It's all theatre to him and the staging is to make it
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 06:08 PM
Jun 2017

look as if the minions in the Senate are being summoned to do his bidding. That is all he wants. Why on God's earth they put up w/ this humiliation is beyond me. Isn't this where Clint Eastwood or Tim Allen would say "Act like a Man!!!"? (No offense to our women senators, but women yawn when someone calls them "chicken&quot

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
15. Not sure what you mean
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 04:12 PM
Jun 2017

I'm only speaking to his desire for drama and attention. Nothing more. Did I make it sound as if Clint Eastwood actually spoke to the King?

BruceWane

(345 posts)
16. What's with trips PERIOD
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 04:23 PM
Jun 2017

Have these people not heard of video conferencing? No security entourage needed, ZERO EMISSIONS.

I guess telecommunications is an evil liberal conspiracy?

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