House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks

[PA Democrat]

This is NOT from the Onion:

President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.

Leaders of Trump’s party appear to disagree: House Republicans have scheduled their yearly policy retreat for a downtown Baltimore hotel in September, according to two senior Republicans familiar with the plans.

That could present an uncomfortable situation for Trump, as sitting presidents customarily speak each year at their party’s House retreat.

The Republicans spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe arrangements that have yet to be made public. The website for the hotel, the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, and multiple third-party hotel booking sites show the hotel as sold out for the days of the retreat, Sept. 12 to 14, while showing availability at other nearby hotels.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-republicans-plan-yearly-retreat-in-baltimore-despite-trumps-attacks/2019/07/29/38f882c0-b216-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html?utm_term=.e83d0d92f9dd

[pangaia]

1. Mayor should tell them to stay the fuck out...

[sinkingfeeling]

2. +100

[PA Democrat]

3. I would imagine there will be some protesters.

I can imagine people carrying protest signs with the faces of Trump and his enablers photo shopped onto images of rats.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. It would be a shame

if all the pugs in attendance couldn't shake the belief - however unfounded - that waitstaff were queuing up to spit in every item of food and drink.


Eat and drink with abandon, puggies!

[displacedtexan]

6. That was my first thought.

Complimentary shampoos & other liquids in the hotels should make them nervous, too. Not that anything bad might be in them, mind you. I just like wingnuts to be nervous about retaliation for their bigotry and disastrous policies.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. Yep. Their paranoia will be their undoing

Workers need not do anything.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Baltimore should give them a rousing welcome

[FBaggins]

8. Not in the 7th unfortunately

That's in Sarbanes' district (MD-03)

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Maybe their hope is Trump will stay away

[Thekaspervote]

10. I hope Baltimore continues to make it clear what they think of dotard

[Bayard]

11. tRump is just pissed

He doesn't have a hotel in Baltimore where he could make money off this group.