Trump nixes trip to Summit of the Americas

[sandensea]

President Trump will not attend the Summit of the Americas in order to remain in Washington “​to oversee the response to ​a ​chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of women and children​ in Syria​,” the White House said Tuesday.

“President Trump will not attend the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Perú, or travel to Bogotá, Colombia, as originally scheduled​,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

“​At the President’s request, the Vice President will travel in his stead.”

The Summit of the Americas, a gathering of Western Hemisphere heads of state organized by the Organization of American States (OAS), has been attended by every U.S. president since the first gathering in 1994.

At: https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/trump-nixes-trip-to-summit-of-the-americas/

The last Summit of the Americas, in Panamá City (Obama is in the second row, at left).

Other than by his old pal Macri, I doubt Trump will be missed much.

[magicarpet]

1. tRdump has to wash the shit off that Mueller....

.... keeps smearing on his face. He does not want to be seen in public before then.

tRdump is an insane vindictive little prick. What stunt will he pull next to cause diversion to all the shame and embarrassment being heaped on him ?

Not "if" he will lash out and explode - but the question is "when" will it happen ? The stable genius will soon come unglued at the seams and go irreparable Humpty Dumpty on us.

All the king's horses and all the king's men.... couldn't do a f*cking thing to help the idiot clown. He was dragged to the dungeons to rot and go rancid and stew in his own juices then let the rats feast on him.

That is the sort of poetic ending tRdump deserves.

[sandensea]

2. Oh, yeah.

Latin Americans tend to have a big sense of humor, and Cheeto knows that for him at least, it won't be as much a summit as a Dean Martin-style roast.

I can hear it now: "Donald! America didn't send us its best, did it!"

[magicarpet]

3. Thems brown people got cooties tRdump says....

..... so he was just looking for a convenient excuse to skip out of 8th Summit of the America's meeting any ways.

Besides it gives him more time to cheat at golf at his Florida club. While he soaks the US taxpayers of a cool million $$$ using Air Force One as the world's most Hi-Tech and expensive golf cart - and we pick up the tab for this extravagance to boost his ego.

[sandensea]

4. Some of the region's recently elected (or installed) RW presidents share his racial misgivings

and fondness for ill-gotten wealth.

Macri: "When Señor Trump is impeached, I want him in Buenos Aires."

Temer: "We'll see about that. One look at our garotas, and he'll be a Rio man in no time!"

[magicarpet]

5. Oh for sure....

Greed and gluttony is not constrained by national borders. An undesirable component of human nature found the world over.

[sandensea]

6. Not to mention lust for garotas.

[magicarpet]

7. More like this gringo.... if speaking of greed/gluttony....

[sandensea]

8. Ha! Where do you think Cheeto will try to flee when he's impeached?

My guess would be Argentina: temperate climate, culture not that different from the U.S.'s, not "too many" minorities, right-wing regime led by personal friend.

Of course, Cheeto would prefer Europe or Australia - but I doubt any of those governments (except perhaps Poland's or Hungary's) would want to have anything to do with him.