Trump surprise trip to DMZ thwarted by fog
Source: (NBC) KOB4- TV Albuquerque, NM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A surprise visit by President Donald Trump to the heavily fortified Korean demilitarized zone was thwarted by bad weather Wednesday a day after Trump modulated his aggressive rhetoric and urged North Korea to come to the negotiating table.
Trump had been scheduled to make the unannounced early-morning trip to the DMZ amid heightened tensions between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Marine One left Seoul at daybreak and flew most of the way to the DMZ but was forced to turn back just five minutes out due to poor weather conditions. Reporters traveling in a chinook helicopter as part of the president's envoy saw fog out the helicopters' windows, and weather reports from near the heavily fortified border showed misting conditions and visibility below one mile. Pilots, officials said, could not see the other helicopters in the air.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president was disappointed he couldn't make the trip. "I think he's pretty frustrated," she told reporters traveling with the president. "It was obviously something he wanted to do."
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underpants
(183,040 posts)He's ate up.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Dense fog sounds like his SS code name.
It changes monthly.
Last month: F*cking Moron
The month before: Moral Imbecile
Can't wait for: (Soon to be) Hanged Traitor
onit2day
(1,201 posts)He's an idiot who truly believes he can get away with anything once he starts his war but that war will destroy the planet. He must be stopped but republicans won't do it. The billionaires think they will survive the fallout while most of the people die, but the resources will remain with fewer people to partake. NK is doing nothing that deserves the rhetoric Trump has been spewing while actively doing naval drills off NK's shores as he attempts to provoke a war. NK is surrounded by countries with Nukes but we want to kill them if they try to get 'em? None of this needs to be going opn if Trump would just STFU
catbyte
(34,544 posts)Because that's all it would've been--a lame ass stunt & proof that he's the manliest, studliest jackass ever.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Like serve in Vietnam, but for those damn heel spurs!
keithbvadu2
(37,044 posts)But Donald persevered and served in his own way.
He bragged that avoiding STDs was his personal VN.
renate
(13,776 posts)Could this turn out to have been the fog that saved the world? Or am I being just a teeny bit overdramatic?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Great title for a sci-fi movie
SunSeeker
(51,804 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)The Fog That Saved The World
rickford66
(5,534 posts)The last minute rewrite had to remove it.
Added: My God how long can he talk?
George II
(67,782 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)westerebus
(2,976 posts)Fug gin hell I ain't going nowhere, said Don.
Translated by KBN as fog can't find there.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)No-Bozos
(51 posts)They want you to believe it was fog. The real reason they turned back was that Cheeto kept asking the helicopter crew to fire across the DMZ. The pilot just saved us from WWIII. Fog, Really!!!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)They had to detour to get him a Big Mac.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)kind of like the republikkans in VA tonight
jmowreader
(50,594 posts)Until now, I thought Trump was planning to spend his entire time in Korea in Pyongtaek.
moosewhisperer
(114 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)But Don the Reality show host wanted to make a dramatic entrance and failed.
Demonaut
(8,937 posts)MFM008
(19,836 posts)Day to be a maggot.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He likes playing soldier.
He regrets those damn heel spurs prevented him from being a warrior.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Babysat, had to make up a pretend reason. No way is millions of people gonna go poof because he wanted to step over a yellow line.
Thanks babysitters club.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)And those aren't holes 1-18; they are craters.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I think he had to wipe the tears from his pink eye sockets before going out there.
brooklynite
(94,988 posts)Grammy23
(5,815 posts)He thought they said KFC instead of DMZ and was all excited and ready to go. Then somebody told him where they were actually going, hence the little accident in his knickers. Oooppps....
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Then he brags to the press that he's got something BIG going down. Then he cancels because of a little fog.
If you ask me, he was told it's risky since he's been shooting his mouth off and Rocketman might actually try to kill him, so he called it 'cliche'. Then he didn't want people to think he was chicken, so he decides to sneak off and do it unannounced. But even that was too scary so he blamed the weather.
Typical loud-mouth.