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Trump's Mar a Lago Thanksgiving

Chomsky said:
Yes, you're' right I believe.

Trump obviously picks the safest ground for his PR.
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It's not just an issue of the "safest ground" I think Trump genuinely appreciates the people who serve in the military and would pass out sandwiches with no press at all. the simple fact is, the US President is the most press watched office in the world, and that's not a Trump thing or any president thing, that's just the way it is. the press follows the president and everything he does is photographed and reported on. remember when Trump first became president the press was outraged that Trump and his family slipped away for dinner at a steakhouse without telling them first.
 
calamity said:
Trump hosts the "troops" at his private golf course, which he call the Winter White House. And, instead of serving a hot meal, he feeds them Turkey sandwiches wrapped in plastic and hands out bags of chips. :lol:

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You people who support this clown crack me up.
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That's a lie.

The president addressed the troops earlier in a message and he and first lady later showed up at Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet in Riviera Beach, Fla. to deliver meals to dozens of active Coast Guardsmen who were working on the holiday.

Note they were working the holiday. Sandwiches, fresh fruit, drinks, anything that could be packed like a lunch and taken with them to their needed stations was the reason for what most call a box lunch. It wasn't at Mar-a-lago. They didn't have hours to be wined and dined. They were on duty. Geesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am really getting friggin fracken fargin tired of all the inaccurate crap that gets posted as fact when it is bull crap.

President Trump Gives Back to Troops on Thanksgiving | CBN News
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I agree. I wouldn't want him at my company either. But if you work for the government, particularly one of the uniformed services, then you just gotta suck it up.
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Are you speaking about the military? Because in the ranks of the military Trump is getting very good ratings.
 
vesper said:
Are you speaking about the military? Because in the ranks of the military Trump is getting very good ratings.
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Not compared to other Republican presidents. Trump has a 44% approval rating in the military. Interestingly enough, among the officer ranks his approval rating is only 30%.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Not compared to other Republican presidents. Trump has a 44% approval rating in the military. Interestingly enough, among the officer ranks his approval rating is only 30%.
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That's not what I am reading Skeptic Bob. After the last 8 years of being micromanaged by the Obama administration and their hands tied behind their back the military feels liberated allowing those in charge to make the calls as needed. Countless stories during the Obama administration where our military were ready to attack either by air, sea, or ground troops and they were told to stand down. That isn't the case in the last 10 months and we are actually defeating ISIS in Iraq/Syria and Afghanistan.
 
calamity said:
Trump hosts the "troops" at his private golf course, which he call the Winter White House. And, instead of serving a hot meal, he feeds them Turkey sandwiches wrapped in plastic and hands out bags of chips. :lol:


You people who support this clown crack me up.
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If this was going to be their meal anyway, then I see nothing wrong with it.

What I would like to know is how long after the cameras left did he hand out sandwiches and shake hands?
 
radcen said:
If this was going to be their meal anyway, then I see nothing wrong with it.

What I would like to know is how long after the cameras left did he hand out sandwiches and shake hands?
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The article I posted earlier stated the first part of their Thanksgiving Day was spent addressing the troops in general and then passing out a meal for the Coast Guard team in Florida. There were a few dozen present who were working the holiday. I have no doubt they served every one of them. The pictures posted show a group of Coast Guard members real happy and honored for the Prez and First Lady to be there.
 
vesper said:
That's not what I am reading Skeptic Bob. After the last 8 years of being micromanaged by the Obama administration and their hands tied behind their back the military feels liberated allowing those in charge to make the calls as needed. Countless stories during the Obama administration where our military were ready to attack either by air, sea, or ground troops and they were told to stand down. That isn't the case in the last 10 months and we are actually defeating ISIS in Iraq/Syria and Afghanistan.
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ISIS' defeat was orchestrated and started well under Obama's tenure, not that it hasn't continued under Trump.

As to Afghanistan, I know far less. But I'll believe it, when we withdraw our final troops.
 
jimbo said:
Weren't the sandwiches provided by the CG mess cooks? Standard fare?

If Trump had brought the entire WH kitchen staff and a semi load of fresh turkeys, the left would accuse him of wasting taxpayer money and turkey genocide.
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I wouldn't mind at all if he had provided a decent meal. He's 20 minutes away from the kitchen of the so called Winter White House. It's costing us about 4 million for his ass to be there. He could have served a real meal quite easily. Though the subway sandwich and bag of chips is probably one of his favorites. Where's the vanilla ice cream???
 
Chomsky said:
ISIS' defeat was orchestrated and started well under Obama's tenure, not that it hasn't continued under Trump.

As to Afghanistan, I know far less. But I'll believe it, when we withdraw our final troops.
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ISIS developed under Obama.

And the Russians, Syrians, Iranians, and Hezbollah are the ones who really fought ISIS aggressively, consistently.
 
Chomsky said:
ISIS' defeat was orchestrated and started well under Obama's tenure, not that it hasn't continued under Trump.

As to Afghanistan, I know far less. But I'll believe it, when we withdraw our final troops.
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I just watched not too long ago about members of the military under the Obama administration share their disgust on how things were run at that time. So many of them told of having the bastards in their sight ready to roll and from the WH were told to stand down and abort their missions. There were snipers, pilots told constantly to abort their missions. From their perspective it was truly forked up. But real progress has been made in the past 11 months. We are actually winning the fight and have regained much ground that had been lost. I think the reason for that is Trump is trusting those in his military to do what they do best and not micromanaging things like Obama and his administration did.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
It's not just an issue of the "safest ground" I think Trump genuinely appreciates the people who serve in the military and would pass out sandwiches with no press at all.
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WOW. I don't believe Trump has ever done anything at all without the press. His press coverage, image, brand, is all that matters to him. I would be interested to see if anyone can bring up just ONE example of Trump doing something charitable, something that benefited someone else, without demanding credit for it. I think I might be in for a very long wait.
 
JMR said:
WOW. I don't believe Trump has ever done anything at all without the press. His press coverage, image, brand, is all that matters to him. I would be interested to see if anyone can bring up just ONE example of Trump doing something charitable, something that benefited someone else, without demanding credit for it. I think I might be in for a very long wait.
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Trump has been a high profile man since the 1980s, it isn't possible for him do something without being reported on.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Trump has been a high profile man since the 1980s, it isn't possible for him do something without being reported on.
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Unfortunately I have been hearing all about him (most quite unflattering) since the 1980s.
We have heard reports well after the fact for good deeds done by public figures. Since he's been around and in the news (actually used to call radio and other news outlets using a pseudonym to report on himself) for so very long, there must be some story out there somewhere of a good deed ??? But I haven't heard it yet.
 
Fledermaus said:
Derp...

That is at a COAST GUARD STATION.....

He continued extolling the victories during a second event at a Coast Guard station in Riviera Beach. The first lady, Melania Trump, joined him to hand out sandwiches in the station’s mess hall. The first couple had also provided assortments of fruit, muffins and cookies to the service members, some of whom were about to go out on patrol.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-thanksgiving.html

You people who trip over yourselves trying to slam on Trump crack me up.
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How embarrassing, did that meany also get 2 scoops of ice cream?:lamo
 
Chomsky said:
ISIS' defeat was orchestrated and started well under Obama's tenure, not that it hasn't continued under Trump.

As to Afghanistan, I know far less. But I'll believe it, when we withdraw our final troops.
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I agree somewhat re Obama and ISIS. But this is a place where I think Trump is doing better by allowing the military to actually fight and fight to win.

I think there's a chance we can do similar in Afghanistan, though far less certain. We shall see. I still think we should go home now, though.
 
vesper said:
I just watched not too long ago about members of the military under the Obama administration share their disgust on how things were run at that time. So many of them told of having the bastards in their sight ready to roll and from the WH were told to stand down and abort their missions. There were snipers, pilots told constantly to abort their missions. From their perspective it was truly forked up. But real progress has been made in the past 11 months. We are actually winning the fight and have regained much ground that had been lost. I think the reason for that is Trump is trusting those in his military to do what they do best and not micromanaging things like Obama and his administration did.
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This is one area where Trump is truly better.
 
radcen said:
I agree somewhat re Obama and ISIS. But this is a place where I think Trump is doing better by allowing the military to actually fight and fight to win.

I think there's a chance we can do similar in Afghanistan, though far less certain. We shall see. I still think we should go home now, though.
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I don't know enough about the military's responses to Obama or Trump. So that may be possible, or not. I can't argue against it.

However ISIS was not just well on the run, but substantially retreated when Obama handed off to Trump. The same with the economy. That's not to detract from Trump, and Trump seems to be building on Obama's actions on both ISIS and the economy. Unless the corporate tax bill fails. That may throw a damper on the markets.
 
Chomsky said:
I don't know enough about the military's responses to Obama or Trump. So that may be possible, or not. I can't argue against it.

However ISIS was not just well on the run, but substantially retreated when Obama handed off to Trump. The same with the economy. That's not to detract from Trump, and Trump seems to be building on Obama's actions on both ISIS and the economy. Unless the corporate tax bill fails. That may throw a damper on the markets.
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It was a shame that Raquaa(?) had to be retaken, since our troops pulled out.
 
Chomsky said:
I don't know enough about the military's responses to Obama or Trump. So that may be possible, or not. I can't argue against it.

However ISIS was not just well on the run, but substantially retreated when Obama handed off to Trump. The same with the economy. That's not to detract from Trump, and Trump seems to be building on Obama's actions on both ISIS and the economy. Unless the corporate tax bill fails. That may throw a damper on the markets.
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The economy has so many varying influences, and the President (directly) is not very high on the list. The notion that Tramp, or any President for that matter, has that much influence over the economy the day after the election is ridiculous.

Hell, if he's that good, why don't we have 10% growth?
 
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