Posted on 01/17/2019 1:08:37 PM PST by Kaslin
President Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday afternoon informing her an upcoming taxpayer funded, military escorted trip overseas has been postponed.
"Dear Madame Speaker. Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event it totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative," President Trump wrote.
"I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding and security it so desperately deserves!" he concluded.
President @realDonaldTrump’s letter to @SpeakerPelosi concerning her upcoming travel pic.twitter.com/TtBCvwp080— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 17, 2019
The trip was part of a larger congressional delegation through the Department of Defense and President Trump denied her military aircraft. According to Fox News, Pelosi was scheduled to leave at 3 p.m. eastern on Thursday afternoon. The letter was sent at 2:20 p.m. An Air Force bus is currently sitting outside House offices, waiting to take lawmakers to the airport. Many of them are on the bus.
Fox is told CapHill security officials got an emergency call from the Pentagon canceling the overseas trip due to shutdown. No one here knows if the trip is going to happen or not. Lots of confusion pic.twitter.com/eFCqsaNcGe— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 17, 2019
Yesterday Speaker Pelosi wrote a letter to President Trump suggesting his State of the Union Address should be postponed. In the letter, she lied about the Secret Service being incapable to provide adequate security for the event.
Hat tip to Crocodile Dundee. Nancy brandishes a knife and President Trump says, while pulling out his own knife, that is not a knife, this is a knife.
They were on a bus headed for the airport!!! https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/charter-bus-congressmen-turns-around/
No one trolls better than DJT. No one. No doubt Piglosi will try and she will fail.
She’s not looking good these days. All this stress combined with all the hate she has built up in her might just make her go boom. That would really be a shame. /s
Pelosi has been playing checkers while the President plays 3D Chess. Silly Pelosi; checkers is for kids!
If you remember the old Chex cereal commercial you will see the resemblance in that.
But I'll behave from now on. I promise.
Pelosi: I control the purse strings.
Trump: I’m Commander-In-Chief, and you don’t get to use the country’s Air Force unless I say so.
CHECKMATE!!!
Personally, I think it would have been a nicer touch to have let them take off. Then recall the plane to DC, just as it was about to leave US air space.
PELOSI GOES BERSERK, BURNS WHITE HOUSE TO THE GROUND AND HIJACKS AIR FRANCE FLIGHT TO PARIS
Driven into a mad frenzy by president Trump's denial of a government airliner to fly her and her friends on
a government paid European junket, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, exploded in a uncontrolled fit of
rage and violence today, torching the White House, hijacking a Paris bound airliner and attempting to dive
bomb the presidents Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. US Air Force fighter jets are currently tracking the
hijacked airliner on an unusual and wavering path toward Las Palmas and Western Sahara in North Africa.
I wonder if she saw this coming? She would have done this sort of thing to Trump in a NY minute.
President Trump is a statesman and strategist without parallel since Pericles.
Oooooooohhhh
The Pelosi plane won’t fly!
The Pelosi plane won’t fly!
The Pelosi plane won’t fly and I’ll tell you why
President Trump just clipped her wings!
Ryan to continue Boehner’s ban on using private government jets
By JAKE SHERMAN
| 10/30/2015 05:07 PM EDT
House Speaker Paul Ryan will continue John Boehner’s self-imposed prohibition on using government-chartered, private jets.
As second in line to the presidency, the speaker of the House is allowed use of an Air Force jet to travel around the country. When Boehner (R-Ohio) took the speakership in 2011, he vowed to not use the jet. On Friday, Ryan’s office told POLITICO that he would not use the jet, either. Boehner’s prohibition did not extend to overseas travel.
Nancy Pelosi caught flak when, as speaker, she flew home to San Francisco on a military airplane. That prompted Boehner’s decision to impose the ban.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/the-gavel/2015/10/speaker-of-the-house-paul-ryan-air-force-jet-215402
See what happens when you don’t fight with one hand tied behind your back?
Just ask Asad what it is like to have Nancy visit and praise your work. Nancy’s boots are made for stomping.
C'mon. I'll bet the US military has a Cessna 172 sitting behind a hanger, somewhere. That's good enough, if there is a clause in the Constitution that says a treasonous hag HAS to be provided with transport, as a perk.
I'd personally like to see her sitting in one of those nylon sling seats in the back of an unheated Herky Bird, all the way across country...
Nancy Pelosi will ‘cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding,’ daughter Alexandra Pelosi says
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Why do member of Congress believe they have a right to travel on aircraft owned and operated by Executive Branch agencies? Perhaps President Trump needs to state that neither the U.S. Air Force nor any other agency is the Executive Branch is a taxi service for anyone in the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch. After all, being a taxi service would seem to violate the separation of powers.
We need to have Representatives and Senators flying commercial regardless of whether the travel is inside or outside the United States. Make Nancy (and all the other Representatives and Senators) travel with the general public and to pay for their own tickets. Perhaps keeping member of Congress in Washington might force some of them to actually do some legislating.
We stopped her?
Nancy's new USAF airplane.
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