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riversedge

(70,093 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:00 AM Aug 2017

Trump to Guam Governor: North Korea Threats Will Boost Tourism Tenfold

It's appalling what the baffon can say in these times of crisis.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/world/asia/trump-guam-governor-phone-call.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur


Trump to Guam Governor: North Korea Threats Will Boost Tourism ‘Tenfold’


Mar-Vic Cagurangan
5-6 minutes
Gov. Eddie Calvo of Guam at a news conference in Adelup on Friday to address the threats made by North Korea. Nancy Borowick for The New York Times

HAGATNA, Guam — If there’s one thing that Guam does not have to worry about while the tiny island is in the nuclear cross hairs of North Korea, it’s tourism, President Trump told the island’s governor in a phone call made public on Saturday.

The threat by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to create “an enveloping fire” around the tiny United States territory in the Western Pacific will bolster Guam tourism “tenfold,” Mr. Trump said in the recorded conversation with Gov. Eddie Calvo.

The recording was put on the Republican governor’s Facebook page and other social media accounts.


Mr. Trump said: “I have to tell you, you have become extremely famous all over the world. They are talking about Guam; and they’re talking about you.” And when it comes to tourism, he added, “I can say this: You’re going to go up, like, tenfold with the expenditure of no money.”......................





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Trump to Guam Governor: North Korea Threats Will Boost Tourism Tenfold (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2017 OP
This is not senility, this is insanity; criminal insanity. n/m bagelsforbreakfast Aug 2017 #1
Wtf? Eom uppityperson Aug 2017 #2
I've heard that Guam's Governor is pro maggot. Control-Z Aug 2017 #3
Not The Onion??!!! NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #4
Right, because everyone wants to spend their next vacation in smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #5
That's exactly what I was going to say. brush Aug 2017 #6
GMTA... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #7
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. Right, because everyone wants to spend their next vacation in
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:16 AM
Aug 2017

a nuclear strike zone.

He is such a fucking moron!

brush

(53,743 posts)
6. That's exactly what I was going to say.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 11:52 AM
Aug 2017

We have a know-nothing, insensitive bumbler for a president.

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