Trump Jr. to give foreign policy speech while on 'unofficial' business trip to India

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Annie Gowen February 19 at 11:11 AM

NEW DELHI — The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is making what’s been dubbed an unofficial visit to India to promote his family’s real estate projects there. But he’s also planning to deliver a foreign policy speech on Indo-Pacific relations at an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Beginning Tuesday, the junior Trump will have a full schedule of meet-and-greets with investors and leading business leaders throughout India where the Trump family has real estate projects — Mumbai, the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon and the eastern city of Kolkata.

Indian newspapers have been running full-page, glossy advertisements hyping his arrival and the latest Trump Tower project under the headline: “Trump is here — Are you Invited?” The ads also invited home buyers to plunk down a booking fee (about $38,000) to “join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for conversation and dinner.” Public relations executives working with the two local developers arranging the Trump dinner declined to give specifics about the event.

During the visit, the 40-year-old Trump, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, will take a break from his private promotional tour to give an address on “Reshaping Indo Pacific Ties: The New Era of Cooperation” at a global business summit on Friday evening, co-sponsored by the Economic Times newspaper. Modi will also speak at the summit on the topic of “Preparing India for the Future.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-jr-to-give-foreign-policy-speech-while-on-unofficial-business-trip-to-india/2018/02/19/37d00c37-d9e8-40c4-934b-0a26b8160dcd_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_indiatrump-1119am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.569b84355a5d

[bronxiteforever]

1. Make this stop. So much corruption and stupidity

It’s breathtaking.

[ananda]

22. No joke. I'm just going WTF? %&*(

nt

[rickford66]

2. What's an "unofficial" business trip ?

"Official" or "unofficial" would refer to government travel. not private or business travel. I just had an unofficial trip to the grocery store where i had some discourse with a lady in the deli department.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Was she Russian??

[rickford66]

7. I can't recall.

[They_Live]

11. Was the discussion about adopting

a pastrami sandwich and some potato salad?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Something designed to stop prosecution for official corruption, but still allow graft

by associating him with Modi and US foreign policy at the same time as he hawks the family real estate. I hope it fails, and he suffers prosecution for this, but I doubt the system is strong enough to achieve that outcome.

[Larrybanal]

9. this was supposed to be the trump business son

but he is always involved in politics...even though he is ignorant (who isn't in this administration). wonder who will pay for this "business/political trip?

[underpants]

3. Oh yes Jr. please offer your expertise and insights

From this weekend
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10250775

[no_hypocrisy]

4. How can he legally give a speech on foreign policy if he isn't registered as a foreign agent?

[They_Live]

12. You and your brain,

thinking again.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. It's reflex, totally involuntary.

[Angry Dragon]

15. I think he would have to be sanctioned by the government

[Scarsdale]

25. Same way his daddy

rules this country, with no obvious intelligence to behold. Same way all the administration runs their offices, with no security clearance, no experience, and certainly no idea about what the HELL they are doing. The inmates are running the asylum, and the gop are just fine with that. When will this creep be indicted, and jailed? He is not a smart person, he inherited the mush for brains from daddy, and his mommy is not too swift, either. Ripping people off is the only way they know how to operate.

[gademocrat7]

6. Grifter Jr.

This is another get rich scheme on the part of chump’s spawn. Disgusting.

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. What the hell qualifications does Beavis Trump (or is it Butthead) have to speak on foreign policy?

Furthermore, does he now hold some kind of unofficial official position in the TRUMP administration?

[forgotmylogin]

19. THIS! Exactly what elected office does Butt-head hold?

...insomuch as he's allowed to speak on behalf of our foreign policy?

[Still In Wisconsin]

24. I think- and I'm really not joking here- that the TRUMPs approach the Presidency as if it were

a monarchy. In a monarchy you can appoint any damned family member you want to any damned position you want. Princess Ivanka. Duke Jared. Queen Malaria the lesser. Prince Beavis and Prince Butthead. Little Lord Barron, etc. etc. etc.

[hibbing]

13. Every damn day

And not a peep from their party.


Peace

[BlueIdaho]

14. Since when did that

Piece of shit start working for the White House? Trump Crime Family trying to turn American foreign policy into an ATM machine.

[left-of-center2012]

17. $38,000 to join Mr. Donald Trump Jr. for conversation and dinner.

From the linked article:

Critics have often complained of the high cost of Secret Service agents accompanying the Trump children on private business trips, straining the agency's budget.

... a spokesman for the Gurgaon developer, said that they had sold apartments worth nearly almost $70 million.

[redstatebluegirl]

18. So what is the business trip for Trump Enterprises costing me?

45 became President to take as much money from tax payers as he could.

[Sophia4]

20. Who is paying for his airfare?

[BlueStater]

21. And this little turd knows...what exactly about foreign policy? n/t

[SayItLoud]

23. What are they charging for Secret Service seats

on the tRUMP corruption plane? FOI request needs to be filed to see how taxpayers are being ripped off by these grifters.

Follow the $$ or in this case follow the Rupee! There's never a tRUMP deal that doesn't have some deep dark $ involved.

[Heartstrings]

26. None of this is normal or acceptable

And they don't even try to hide it anymore.....