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Trump hugs children, serves food in visit to victims of Harvey
Thompson Reuters Foundation News ^

Posted on 09/02/2017 12:39:33 PM PDT by bryan999

HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump flew to Houston on Saturday to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey and see the effects of the record-setting storm while he presses for a multi-billion-dollar aid package.

Trump, facing the first natural disaster of his administration, was joined by his wife, Melania, as he passed out food and hugged, kissed and played with children at Houston's NRG Center, a 700,000-square-foot (65,000 square meter) facility that is now the city's largest emergency shelter.

Trump, who is making his second trip to the stricken state this week, asked Congress late on Friday for an initial $7.85 billion for hurricane recovery efforts. The request comes as Washington faces tough budget negotiations.

Trump told reporters at the center that his administration was moving fast to provide the financing for aid to the devastated region.

"We are signing a lot of documents to get money," he said.

Trump appeared relaxed as he posed for photographs with volunteers and chatted with those relocated to the shelter alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Melania, the sleeves of her blue denim shirt rolled up, hugged a woman and chatted with a child.

"It has been a wonderful thing," Trump said of his meetings with the children as he helped serve food to evacuees amid shouts of "Thank you, sir."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.trust.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: empathy; flotusmelania; harvey; hurricaneharvey; melania; texas; third100days; trump; tx
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1 posted on 09/02/2017 12:39:33 PM PDT by bryan999
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Trump hugs children, serves food in visit to victims of Harvey

Maxine Waters: "He's a pedophile! He's trying to poison people! IMPEACH HIM!"

2 posted on 09/02/2017 12:40:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

Does he have a ServSafe license? Was he wearing a hair net? Did we see him wash his hands? Was the food organic and locally sourced? Was it Russian food?


3 posted on 09/02/2017 12:45:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: bryan999

I loved his comment about they say it will take about 2 years to rebuild but since this is Texas it will probably take 6 months


4 posted on 09/02/2017 12:48:30 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bryan999

It must have burned the Antifa media that so many shaking Trump’s hand and posing for pics with him were black.


5 posted on 09/02/2017 12:49:15 PM PDT by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her heels are too high! She’s insulting the victims!!


6 posted on 09/02/2017 12:49:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Isn’t it really creepy to have this old fat guy hugging kids?

Or something like that. The poor guy could wave his arms and make all the flood water go away, and he would be blamed for causing a drought. He can do no right.

Sure gets old.


7 posted on 09/02/2017 12:50:05 PM PDT by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, but they made him put on gloves and he deadpans....’ my hands are too big’

He also checked the contents of the meal box, and said ‘ I want one’....
....you know he wasn’t kidding and prolly had it for lunch


8 posted on 09/02/2017 12:50:27 PM PDT by Guenevere
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Racist sob that he is.👹
9 posted on 09/02/2017 12:51:30 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: RepRivFarm

Isn’t it really creepy to have this old fat guy hugging kids?

If it’s Joe Biden, it is very creepy.


10 posted on 09/02/2017 12:52:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Guenevere

We had a lot of good food in the wake of Katrina in Mississippi. I don’t know where the media got the idea that we were all starving or whatever. Salvation Army, Baptist Relief, Lutheran Social Services, National Guard and 1,000 others.


11 posted on 09/02/2017 12:53:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RepRivFarm
😹. Uh that would be "handsy" uncle jojo Biden the creeper.
12 posted on 09/02/2017 12:53:39 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was Melania wearing the proper footwear?


13 posted on 09/02/2017 12:55:51 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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You mean he and Melania didn’t BAKE the food? He didn’t wring the chickens’ necks? They didn’t go to the market and buy it with their own money? Just thinking of some questions for the “journalists” at CNN.


14 posted on 09/02/2017 12:56:21 PM PDT by laconic (thes)
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To: bryan999
Reuters article with pictures
15 posted on 09/02/2017 12:59:58 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Her heels are too high! She’s insulting the victims!!

The high heels that the First Lady wore as she was getting off of the plane is clearly the major issue facing the country.

(do I need a sarc tag? LOL!)

I have never seen such vitriol coming from the media. And President Reagan was the first candidate I voted for. (Turned 18 a month before the election; I asked my Dad who I should vote for. :) )

16 posted on 09/02/2017 1:06:41 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (President Trump is bearing the ''slings and arrows," as he said he would. God Bless him and the US)
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They weren’t just Black, but were also were displaying pronounced ethnic garb and hair configurations. He was being accepted by the community.

Oh the humanities...

We always tried to tell them Trump likes all manner of people. The Media, Democrats, the Leftists/Fascists couldn’t accept that.


17 posted on 09/02/2017 1:08:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll second that reality.


18 posted on 09/02/2017 1:10:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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Was Melania wearing the proper footwear?

Of course not! LOL!

She could copy Princess Diana or even better, Grace Kelly, and she still would be criticised.

19 posted on 09/02/2017 1:11:06 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (President Trump is bearing the ''slings and arrows," as he said he would. God Bless him and the US)
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To: DoughtyOne

What are ethnic garb and hair configurations?


20 posted on 09/02/2017 1:11:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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