Posted on 03/22/2017 5:49:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The White House announced on Tuesday evening that President Trump's first foreign trip will be to Brussels, Belgium, on May 25.
Trump will sit down for an inaugural meeting with leaders from the 28 nations that belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
"The President looks forward to meeting with his NATO counterparts to reaffirm our strong commitment to NATO, and to discuss issues critical to the alliance, especially allied responsibility-sharing and NATO's role in the fight against terrorism," the White House Office of the Press Secretary said in a statement.
NATO Sec. Gen. Jens Stoltenberg will visit Trump at the White House on April 12. The two are expected to discuss "how to strengthen the alliance to cope with challenges to national and international security," according to the press secretary.
That stateside meeting comes a day after State Sec. Rex Tillerson was criticized for pulling out of an April 5-6 NATO meeting in order to join Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for a talk with Chinese President Xi JinPing.
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Ping.
Too bad Trump is not following his instincts. He knows NATO is an outmoded and outdated concept. He ought not be giving it legitimacy by his presence.
Set ‘em straight.
Maybe he’ll deliver an invoice.
I think he’s there to lay out the deal...a US downsizing will occur...most forces in Germany will vacate to the UK/Poland, with the rest going back to the states. Back in the early 1990s...there should have been a schedule posted with US forces entirely withdrawn within a 15-year period. There’s no reason left to keep a presence.
For Germany to show some worry over Putin...it’ll be fake in nature and not believable anymore.
I love that they announced Tillerson is not going and gave the Dems/media some time to freak out before announcing that Trump is going.
If they announced Trump is going instead of Tillerson from the start we wouldn’t have had the freak out. I wonder if the Dems/media will ever figure out that Trump is way smarter than them or if we will get to enjoy 8 years of this.
“He knows NATO is an outmoded and outdated concept.”
Not the entire concept, just parts of it.
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