Trump abruptly cancels planned South American trip as scandals explode around him

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



BRAD REED
10 APR 2018 AT 09:13 ET

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has canceled his planned trip to South America as multiple scandals are exploding around his administration.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Tuesday morning that Trump would not be travelling to Peru or Colombia as originally planned, and would be sending Vice President Mike Pence to those countries instead.


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Trump cancels trip to Peru, Colombia

BY JORDAN FABIAN - 04/10/18 09:23 AM EDT

President Trump has scrapped his planned trip to Peru and Colombia, the White House announced Tuesday.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will remain in Washington to oversee the response to an apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria. Vice President Pence will travel in Trump’s place.

“President Trump will not attend the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru or travel to Bogota, Colombia as originally scheduled,” Sanders said in a statement.

“At the President’s request, the Vice President will travel in his stead. The President will remain in the United States to oversee the American response to Syria and to monitor developments around the world.”

The decision also comes as Trump deals with the fallout of an FBI raid on the offices of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Trump has called the FBI's actions a "disgrace" and an attack on the country, and has also renewed talk of possibly firing special counsel Robert Mueller.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382432-trump-cancels-trip-to-peru-colombia

[Wednesdays]

1. The spin from the White House

is that tRump is canceling because he wants to concentrate on the Syria situation. (Buried in the 3rd paragraph.)

[machoneman]

3. Maybe the spin is (ahem) really Stormy? Hah! n/m

n/m

[Achilleaze]

7. "Mercury is retrograde" - S. Hucksterbee (R)

[lark]

2. He never cared one whit about South America anyway.

This is just an excuse because the old weak criminal grifter is getting tangled in the nets of corruption he's been weaving for years and can't handle it.

[Chipper Chat]

4. I can remember when another VP named Nixon visited South America.

It didn't go well.

[notdarkyet]

12. SA is breathing a sigh of relief.

[raven mad]

17. You felt it too, notdarkyet?

That gust got all the way up here!

👀 did in the big hanging "snow snake" on the side fence!

[Hoyt]

5. Let's hope he was ordered not to leave the country. :)

[TranssexualKaren]

6. I suppose its good experience...

For when Pence becomes president.

[notdarkyet]

13. Pence was just there..what..a month ago?

[barbtries]

8. subtext:

the president is in full-blown tantrum mode and must stay in his bed watching fox news for the foreseeable future.

after yesterday, he may be getting advice to resign. i hope so.

[Scarsdale]

10. Someone alert

the local McDonalds and KFC that large orders will be coming in from the WH, as Lardass Agent Orange binges on junk food. Faux had better make sure NOT to broadcast any news about the Cohen raid. Temper tantrum in progress. Maybe Ivanka could join him on his bed, consoling him?

[thesquanderer]

9. Like other crooks, he should travel to South America... and stay there. (n/t)

[underpants]

11. He canceled 3 days out?

Talk about a Clustertrump

[raven mad]

18. Stealing the clusterTrump. eom

[underpants]

19. It's in my autocorrect now

[raven mad]

20. I did the same.

Great minds..

[underpants]

21. ✅

[jpak]

14. Bet he will be at Mar-a-Lago golfing this weekend

Alone

yup

[Nitram]

15. So it has begun. The presidency has weakened to the point that important high-profile jaunts abroad

will have to be postponed. Trump is a wounded boar (or bore!) limping through the snow as a pack of wolves headed by Mueller track him down by following the trail of blood he leaves behind him. It won't be long before he has to turn and face them in his final fight, for which the inevitable outcome is only too clear.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Our own gov't officials were telling foreign gov'ts to pretty much ignore what Trump says on his tr

Sometime last year, our own gov't officials were telling foreign gov'ts to pretty much ignore what Trump says on his trips.

[orangecrush]

22. K&R!