US president summons reporters for surprise photo shoot; makes foreboding comment, but declines to elaborate

Times of Israel

President Donald Trump delivered a foreboding message Thursday night, telling reporters as he posed for photos with his senior military leaders that this might be “the calm before the storm.”

White House reporters were summoned suddenly Thursday evening and told the president had decided he wanted the press to document a dinner he was holding with the military leaders and their wives.

Reporters were led hastily to the grand State Dining Room, where they walked into a scene of the president, his highest-ranking military aides and their wives posing for a group photo. The cameras clicked and they smiled. A joke was made about someone’s face being tired. Live classical music played.

Then, Trump gestured to the reporters in the room.

“You guys know what this represents?” Trump asked. “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm. Could be the calm, the calm before the storm.”

“What storm Mr. President?” one reporter shouted. ISIS? North Korea? Iran?

“You’ll find out,” the president said.

He also praised those assembled for the photo, saying: “We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that.”

Earlier in the evening, the president had lauded the group, including his defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and said they would be discussing the most pressing military issues facing the country, including North Korea and Iran.

Trump said “tremendous progress” had been made with respect to the Islamic State group, adding, “I guess the media’s going to be finding out about that over the next short period of time.”

He also denounced Iran, saying the country should not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, and offered another stark warning to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

“We cannot allow this dictatorship to threaten our nation or allies with unimaginable loss of life,” he said, vowing to “do what we must do to prevent that from happening and it will be done, if necessary. Believe me.”

He also said that, moving forward, he expects those in the room to provide him with “a broad range of military options, when needed, at a much faster pace.”

8 thoughts on “Flanked by military leaders, Trump talks of ‘calm before the storm’”
  1. “We have the world’s great military people in this room, I will tell you that.”
    You have to admire his’Chutzpah’.
    Those dingbats have only won a single war in the last 100 years and that was against Granada because the three policemen guarding the country had gone fishing.
    American military are a joke. No-one respects or even acknowledges them as a power. The only thing that they are good for is dropping bombs.
    In Vietnam they dropped 300 tons of bombs for every man woman and child in NV and still they lost.
    The most sophisticated weapon that the Taliban had were AK47s and the might of the USA forces are still losing 16 years into the war.
    They use proxies to get any result, and then run away when the proxies get hammered.
    Lindy England is their pin-up girl and the only soldier who showed any courage in the last 70 years was Chelsea Manning.
    https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fprovidenceschools.files.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F06%2Fjrotc-6-4-15-2.jpg&f=1
    This is a ‘high school female!

  2. Trump’s a Bozo but still safer than Hillary, who by now would probably have us at war with the Russians, if not already dead.

  3. Be afraid, be very afraid of this narcissist….
    Imagine our once potentially great nation warning others of (in this case, North Korea’s) “…threaten(ing) our nation or allies with unimaginable loss of life”! We not only threaten, we just do it!…Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos in earlier years….
    BTW, Simon Hawkins, PJL and Phibbs: I agree with your assessments of “We came, we saw, he (Qadhafi) died” Killary! Thank you.

  4. Oy vey such emotions ………?
    MAYBE it’s the calm before the storm,” he said,
    Times of Israel changed it to MIGHT BE and some news outlets cut it down to “calm before the storm.
    Its B.S lawyer speak thats all – talking in the same tongue Jews speak in.
    “the only soldier who showed any courage in the last 70 years was Chelsea Manning”
    Well i suggest YOU FAMILIARIZE yourself with Jessica Lynch.
    She had balls enough to tell the truth that she had not fought to the last bullet, that she had been picked up and taken to hospital by Iraqi soldiers and was handed back to US forces and not rescued by Clint Eastwood, Sly Stallone, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal and Pee Wee Herman or any other action hero Jewish or otherwise.
    Taliban Used I.E.D’s activated by mobile phone (cell phones) now thats sophisticated …. unfortunately the US taught them that little trick when they were the Mujahideen.
    Hmmm Bismark sunk by a Swordfish …….

  5. OK Derek,
    I admit I was exaggerating a little.
    But it is amazing that both examples are of women!

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