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riversedge

(70,197 posts)
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:57 AM Dec 2019

Trump cancels NATO press conference

Source: the hill




By Morgan Chalfant - 12/04/19 09:34 AM EST

President Trump said Wednesday that he would cancel a press conference he was scheduled to participate in at the conclusion of a NATO summit in London.

Trump told reporters he planned to attend other scheduled meetings later Wednesday but that he would “probably go directly back to Washington” afterward, noting that he gave numerous press availabilities throughout the two days in London.

“We’ll go directly back. I think we’ve done plenty of press conferences — unless you’re demanding a press conference, we’ll do one — but I think we’ve had plenty of questions,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Trump later officially canceled the press conference in a series of tweets. ................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/472965-trump-cancels-nato-press-conference



I think Trumps handlers know he made a

Fool of himself yesterday and do not want to risk it again. IMHO



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riversedge

(70,197 posts)
7. nah. Trump just wants to demean the press by demanding they yell over the copter noise every
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:40 PM
Dec 2019

time he leaves to travel. I do think it is demeaning and he probably will do it as he leaves Europe.

10. It be great if just one time the WH reporters didn't ask a single question during "chopper talk."
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 07:04 PM
Dec 2019

That would leave Fat Donnie standing there with nothing to react to, nothing to shout over the sound of the copter engines about. He'd look like a fool -- at least more of a fool than he already looks like.

robbob

(3,527 posts)
5. What a pillar of strength!
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:14 PM
Dec 2019

“We’re not going to do a press conference. Unless you demand one. Then we’ll do it.”

So decisive!

BluNoMatterHu

(31 posts)
6. It's not like he'll say anything important.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:38 PM
Dec 2019

Or coherent, for that matter. For once he's doing the world a favor and not inflicting
his stupidity on them.

Lonestarblue

(9,979 posts)
8. I wish the press would just stop covering him.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 01:09 PM
Dec 2019

Everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth is either a lie or garbled nonsense. By covering his every utterance, the media is guilty of spreading destructive propaganda—just as Germany’s media did for Hitler.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
9. Impeachme-#45 must get home quick and give out punishments.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 05:23 PM
Dec 2019

First one, Linseed will have his peanuts squeezed until he cries loudly "It was only Ukraine in 2016!".

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