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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

Posted on 01/22/2017 8:42:21 AM PST by combat_boots

Edited on 01/22/2017 9:01:29 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

At the end of Trump's speech to a room filled with 400 employees of the CIA, Trump said, rather cryptically, that maybe he'd build them a bigger room 'by someone who knows how to build and we won't have columns, do you understand that?'


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KEYWORDS: cia; trump; trump100days; trumpciaspeech; trumpspeech
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To: combat_boots

New to me. That’s really cool.


21 posted on 01/22/2017 9:02:35 AM PST by native texan
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To: combat_boots

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/


22 posted on 01/22/2017 9:04:03 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: Dick Bachert

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


23 posted on 01/22/2017 9:08:09 AM PST by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

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.


24 posted on 01/22/2017 9:09:59 AM PST by Pravious
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To: combat_boots

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.


25 posted on 01/22/2017 9:14:43 AM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: combat_boots; All

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.


26 posted on 01/22/2017 9:15:08 AM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Spirit of Liberty

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.


27 posted on 01/22/2017 9:17:11 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: sparklite2

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??


28 posted on 01/22/2017 9:17:47 AM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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To: Pravious

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.


29 posted on 01/22/2017 9:17:49 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: A. Morgan

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.


30 posted on 01/22/2017 9:18:08 AM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: combat_boots

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...


31 posted on 01/22/2017 9:18:40 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: Dick Bachert

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.


32 posted on 01/22/2017 9:20:12 AM PST by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: A. Morgan

Thank you.

I only know the wall with the stars on it.


33 posted on 01/22/2017 9:26:18 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: combat_boots

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


34 posted on 01/22/2017 9:28:19 AM PST by stylin19a (The air I am breathing seems to be a little freer today.)
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To: Pravious

Oooooooooooh.
Oooooooooooooooooooooowwwh!!

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

GROW UP ALREADY! THIS IS SERIIOUS SH!T.


35 posted on 01/22/2017 9:28:36 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Dick Bachert

36 posted on 01/22/2017 9:28:39 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: A. Morgan

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


37 posted on 01/22/2017 9:29:02 AM PST by Cats Pajamas (It went up to the Cloud. You canÂ’t get it down from the Cloud? Nobody understands the Cloud, it's a)
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To: combat_boots

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


38 posted on 01/22/2017 9:31:20 AM PST by Ingtar (.)
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To: proust

Trump is of that era.

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


39 posted on 01/22/2017 9:31:48 AM PST by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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To: combat_boots
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.]
40 posted on 01/22/2017 9:31:56 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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