Posted on 02/28/2017 8:53:01 AM PST by Helicondelta
12:01 PM Saturday, February 25th: I received a tip from a well informed source that Trump would be dining at the BLT Steakhouse inside his Trump hotel at approximately 6 PM that evening. I had seen the president dine in the restaurant before following a campaign event held at the property in October. I called and made a reservation for the balcony level.
8:17 PM: Without any announcement or indication, President Trump enters the hotel lobby which bears his name, flanked on all sides by the Secret Service. Shock and astonishment fill the guests in the room. The woman next to me screams “Is it him? It's really him! Oh my God! This is like a dream!” Trump is rushed by fans in the lobby as he makes his way to the steakhouse.
8:25 PM: The President gets up and walks across the restaurant to his Secretary of State's table. The President kisses Tillerson's wife Renda, and he and Tillerson make small talk. They laugh and speak jovially for a few minutes as dinner guests who had been sitting next to Tillerson look on in stunned amazement. Another woman tells Trump it's her birthday and gets a selfie. The woman tells me emotionally afterward that she had no idea Trump would be here. She booked the birthday dinner a month ago and said meeting Trump here was, “like meeting Walt Disney in Disneyland.”
8:30 PM: Trump leaves the Tillersons to their date night and heads back to his table. I get ahead of him and squeeze in one question, asking the President if he will be attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year. “No,” he says with a smirk, “You like that?” The crowd around me cheers in agreement as Trump sits down with his party.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
MAGA!
> “ I received a tip from a well informed source that Trump would be dining at the BLT Steakhouse inside his Trump hotel at approximately 6 PM that evening. ... I called and made a reservation for the balcony level.”
This is wrong on so many levels.
A “tip from a well informed source”?
A “reservation for the balcony level”?
Does anyone see a Ford Theatre scenario here?
Should I keep reading?
This ran yesterday but it is a great article and worth a re-post. Based on President Trump’s reaction when the reporter asked him a question, I would say the this guy was designated as the real pool reporter. ;-)
That is simply awesome. What a great article. Thank you so much for posting it.
Well-done steak with ketchup? That’s it! Impeach! /s
Then have me impeached also because that is how I love my steak also, always have it that way and my favorite steak is always a New York Steak.
Grew up on ketchup, couldn’t always afford jelly so we would have toast with ketchup on our plate and that was a meal.
Go Trump!!!
MAGA!!!!
For one evenings meal and at TAXPAYER's EXPENSE?
Enjoyed that article!
The author is an illiterate jerk. Notice his tense usage. He writes as if it were currently happening.
This is pure BS. He wouldn’t be that close to the Prez.
Did you look at his pictures? He obviously has been cleared by Trump’s security.
Rest easy. It’s not as though John Wilkes Booth was a Demo...
Oh. Wait.
You should keep reading.
That bothered me, too, but President Trump clearly had very thorough security present.
worth checking the photos, home videos, and reading the entire article.
The money quote
“...Well it’s really quite wonderful. But as I’ve gotten to know Donald, it really just does not surprise me. You know what amazes me about your President? He is a regular bloke. Truly. Just a normal chap. Upstairs at dinner, he spoke to the table like any regular guy out to dine with friends and family. There is no pretension at all....”
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