"Do not assume he knows history of country or its major points of contention"

[kpete]

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-foreign-trip.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share



WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia, caterers have ensured that his favorite meal — steak with a side of ketchup — will be offered alongside the traditional local cuisine.

At NATO and the Group of 7 summits, foreign delegations have gotten word that the new U.S. president prefers short presentations and lots of visual aids. And at all of Trump’s five stops on his first overseas trip, his team has spent weeks trying to build daily downtime into his otherwise jam-packed schedule.


It’s all part of a worldwide effort to accommodate America’s homebody president on a voyage with increasingly raised stakes given the ballooning controversy involving his campaign’s possible ties to Russia. For a former international businessman, Trump simply doesn’t have an affinity for much international.

Even before Trump’s trip morphed from a quick jaunt to Europe into a nine-day behemoth, White House aides were on edge about how the president would take to grueling pressures of foreign travel: the time zone changes, the unfamiliar hotels, the local delicacies. Two officials said they feared that a difficult trip might even lead the president to hand off future traveling duties to Vice President Mike Pence.


MORE:
https://apnews.com/5e7e20245bc744fc8a6e71745239f56a/Worldwide-effort-set-to-keep-Trump-happy-on-1st-trip-abroad

[luvMIdog]

1. look at his face. It's like he doesn't approve of the table setting ..idiot

[tanyev]

2. Sad!

[FakeNoose]

3. My prediction: jetlag

Trump will be jetlagged for 2 days, at least.

It hits older people harder, and he doesn't fly to other countries that often.
So he probably won't even realize it's going to hit him.

I hear people say "I'll sleep on the plane and I'll be fine" but it doesn't work that way.

Just sayin'