Trump ordered Syria attack while enjoying dessert

3243 v2 (00:16~00:39) “President Xi wants to do the right thing”. Very powerful. We have submarines. I mean, he was saying very good things about me, but I don’t have a relationship with him. In public, at least, he barely mentioned China’s worrying actions on trade, North Korea, and in the South China Sea.

Once you understand that Trump views everything – up to and including where he stands on a given issue on any given day – as a sort of extended negotiation, it becomes far easier to understand how he could so quickly and totally reverse himself on major issues like the United States relationship with China or whether the Export-Import Bank should exist.

In Oregon, where Trump won 39.1 percent of the state, voters trusted him to improve the state economically, even speaking at a rally in Eugene about issues that conservative Oregonians worry about, such as employment in rural areas.

The call follows a letter last week from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that called for Congress to return from recess to debate Trump’s military action in Syria, after Trump authorized a strike of 60 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian government facility in response to a chemical weapons attack that the United States has pinned on Assad. That will be all right, too. Trump is seeking China’s help in dealing with an increasingly belligerent and risky North Korean regime. But these theories are misplaced – there are no good limited military options with North Korea because of its retaliatory capabilities against South Korea, and Xi knows it.

“I don’t like it because I don’t think it’s necessary”, Trump told Bloomberg News in August 2015. Trump has neither; he is much more inclined toward insular policies, and the country clearly does not want to escalate the conflict, as both polls showed. “We need them on the ground, conducting a serious investigation”, Kiesling said, adding that unilateral steps, outside the United Nations framework, must be avoided. He’s also long boasted of his flexibility, describing his positions as starting points for negotiation – though many of his core ideas, including frustrations over the USA trade imbalance, have held steady for years.

“They’re not currency manipulators”, he told The Wall Street Journal. Prior to launching his presidential campaign, in June 2013, The Apprentice star Tweeted, “We should stay the hell out of Syria, the “rebels” are just as bad as the current regime”.

Trump then told XI he had just gotten a message “from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do you do?”

“Then he said to me”.

This week, Trump abandoned a campaign vow to label China a currency manipulator.

“The “huge, complicated” Syrian issue won’t be solved militarily”, the ex-diplomat said, adding that “it’s time to sit down, force the process into traditional diplomatic channels, which are slow – agonizingly slow – but, at least, we minimize the bloodshed while the process is going on”. Now you say there is none.

In between these actions, the president ordered a U.S. Naval aircraft strike force, lead by the USS Carl Vinson, to the waters of the Korean peninsula in response to the continual threats from North Korea. “We can work together or against each other”. “In the Congress we’re talking about an enhanced USA military presence in the region, more robust and coordinated efforts to counter Russian propaganda and disinformation in Ukraine and, for that matter, throughout Europe, including with the elections in France and Germany upcoming, and the unity of action between the USA and the [European Union] on holding Russia accountable for its violations of the Minsk agreements, the Budapest Memorandum for that matter, and other global norms and agreements”.