Trump walks out before signing executive orders
Source: CNN
By Julia Manchester, CNN
Updated 8:36 PM ET, Fri March 31, 2017
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Source: CNN
Trump leaves without signing executive orders 01:00
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The orders affect trade policy
Trump later signed them
(CNN)President Donald Trump walked out of an executive order signing ceremony Friday -- without actually signing the orders.
During the signing ceremony, White House pool reporters asked Trump questions about his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has offered to testify on Russian involvement in the US election in return for immunity from prosecution.
The President ignored the questions and moved to another room, only to be chased by Vice President Mike Pence, who picked up the folders containing the two executive orders.
Trump later signed the pair of orders aimed at identifying and targeting foreign trade abuses, according to the White House, but behind closed doors.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/donald-trump-executive-order-signing-walk-out/index.html
A few different versions:
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and an earlier DU post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1002&thread=8878087
Justin Sink?Verified account @justinsink
after @MajorCBS asks about Flynn, Trump leaves signing ceremony without signing executive orders. Pence went and picked it up from desk
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)state to the public once again.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)Trump is a petulant little kid.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)tblue37
(65,488 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)In the past he would've just refused to answer, or told that person to get stuffed or to leave, and then go about his business.
And what IS all this bull with so many ceremonies? He's really into the SHOW of it all, so it appears he's accomplishing something. Like a circus.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)And this just reinforces that. Doesn't actually care about what he's signing; just cares about the image of it.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)Send in the clowns...oops, the biggest clown just left the ring followed by the rest of them.
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)"I don't care what's in it just get me a bill to sign" I believe was his quote!
susanna
(5,231 posts)tblue37
(65,488 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Oh, the crackup is most definitely on the way!!!!
NBachers
(17,136 posts)Doodley
(9,124 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Part II? Either way, he really is losing it.
Doodley
(9,124 posts)Mike Pence had to change Trump's diapers.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)... and I'm not being snarky.... he reminds me of someone who has Alzheimer's who suddenly can't remember what they are doing.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)is he angry, did he forget, was he too tired?
We'll have to wait for his tweet to know!
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)Americans cannot accept this shit.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)magicarpet
(14,167 posts)...... will not be disrupted by these unwashed commoners, this rift-raf, or these scribes with their poisonous and toxic pens. We will simply move the signing of the royal decree into the safety of the king's inner private chambers to better rape and pillage the coinage purses of the peasants.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)All he needs is the Sheriff of Nottingham.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Warriors!
Come out and play!
NBachers
(17,136 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)He seems to fall apart at the moment anyone mentions Russia and investigations.
orleans
(34,073 posts)he was headed in the direction of the door before a question was asked
and it would have been too revealing and humiliating for him to say "oops--look like i'm forgetting something" and turn around and go in the other direction to the desk.
this video is pretty revealing when it comes to his mental competence
Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)...irritating thumbs up gesture on his way out of the escape hatch.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)that's what I see. In between the phony grins are scowls and grimaces galore.
The republican Tax-&-Draft Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, is being consumed by the self-fermented bile in which he is marinating.
Cha
(297,655 posts).. but he does look worse than usual there.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)...some other time and place...
Cha
(297,655 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Bonny little prince donnie is displeased.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)Beacool
(30,251 posts)We had 44 presidents in the nation prior to Trump. Some of them called to our better angels, some not so much. Some were brilliant, some were barely passable. But, none were as unqualified or as temperamentally unfit as Trump. A minority of Americans, thanks to an archaic election system, elevated a man who is not qualified to even be the mayor of a small town. Let alone be president. It's not a partisan issue, as he's not really a Republican, it's the person. He's a narcissist who can't abide criticism and has no empathy for others, a petty and vindictive man. A person with no intellectual curiosity, who doesn't read and doesn't want to learn how to do his job. He also lacks a moral compass, he's neither decent nor honorable. He'll be a blot in US history.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)attention from the most important issue: the fact that HRC had the race won, decisively, before the FBI intervened (again) with 11 days to go in order to rig the election for Donald Trump.
Had it not been for James Comey's criminal actions--and I do believe he violated the Hatch Act--Hillary would have won, decisively, and carried in a Democratic Senate.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)-er
But not a quack
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