In Speech to the CIA, Trump Offers to Build Them a Room Without Columns: ‘Do You Understand That?’

ZH ^ | 1/21/2017 | The_Real_Fly

[native texan]

New to me. That’s really cool.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Explains Brennan’s response to the speech; I guess he got it.

Ex-CIA chief Brennan bashes Trump over speech during CIA visit

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-to-cia-i-am-so-behind-you/

[sparklite2]

Good lord. With pictures like that coming from his ‘friends,’ Trump doesn’t need an enemy.

[Pravious]

Strong words exist to communicate strong emotions.

I really couldn’t care less if “bad language” offends you. No one is seven years old here, and we don’t need language cops.

[A. Morgan]

Take as look at this photo which shows the columns in the room where President Trump was speaking to 400 CIA folks...

http://calstate.fullerton.edu/multimedia/2011sp/images/Panetta-Interns-Tour-CIA.jpg

Imagine how many people were peaking around those columns and how many others had the view completely blocked.

[A. Morgan]

Take as look at this photo which shows the columns in the room where President Trump was speaking to 400 CIA folks...

http://calstate.fullerton.edu/multimedia/2011sp/images/Panetta-Interns-Tour-CIA.jpg

Imagine how many people were peaking around those columns and how many others had the view completely blocked.

[hardspunned]

With the main adversary of the United States being radical Islam and Brennan and Barry in charge of protecting us, all columns were suspect.

That Shiite is all in the past.

[Dick Bachert]

This is serious business and I wanted a serious photo of the man! Got YOUR attention, right? How often do you contact YOUR guys in DC??

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I note your lack of decorum and suggest that you might be more comfortable over at DU where every post has such language. Folks need something to show they are really manly, I guess.

[proust]

yeah, I figured he was being literal. He motions to the columns in the room as he speaks. Really old people will read too much into it though. No one under 60 knows what a fifth column or a fourth estate is.

[logi_cal869]

Last night my wife came in to tell me that the CIA chief had publicly-blasted Trump’s speech. I was/am busy on a project and didn’t even watch the inauguration or, for that matter, any news whatsoever.

I dwelled for an hour on the ramifications of such a watershed moment and explained to my wife -who is rabidly anti-Trump - the gravity of such a thing.

I was hugely-relieved when she came out later and told me she was mistaken, the it was EX director Brennan who attacked Trump. Still, those here likely get my drift.

This article has, frankly, left me smiling ear-to-ear...

[sparklite2]

You came up with that demonizing piece of crap yourself?
I wouldn’t be too proud of that, brother. All it’s missing is steam coming out of Trump’s ears.

[combat_boots]

Thank you.

I only know the wall with the stars on it.

[stylin19a]

I thought he was talking to the MSM that was there...

[Flintlock]

Oooooooooooh.
Oooooooooooooooooooooowwwh!!

Such ICKEY WANGUAGE!!! My poor widdle virgin EARS is burning......

GROW UP ALREADY! THIS IS SERIIOUS SH!T.

[Fiddlstix]

[Cats Pajamas]

That’s our CIA. Bawaaaaaaaaaaaa. Most of them were probably at the Vagina march.

[Ingtar]

Here I thought a room without columns was a private room where they could work without access to the public.

[CottonBall]

Trump is of that era.

I find the “do you understand” comment food for thought.

[mason-dixon]

Government buildings I have worked in (built in 60's thru 90's)have 20 foot by 20 foot spaces with columns (for support and also for utility conduits) at each corner. Pretty basic architecture. He spoke from the atrium so he could have the memorial wall as backdrop.

Trump's remark regarding building a bigger space, triggered the architecture vision of a bigger, more impressive atrium/entrance/common space... without the columns. [By the way, there is a large auditorium at CIA... called the igloo because of its round shape.]