Earlier today, trump and the first lady departed the stormy shores of the US and headed for the friendly G20 summit in Argentina. But, baby trump had arrived earlier, ready to give a puffed-up welcome to trump and his entourage.
The G20 is a summit to mingle with world leaders, wine and dine, meet friends, set international policy agendas, make soaring speeches, … Needlessly to say, trump will not be doing any of this. The day was filled with dark and foreboding stories of Mueller, Manafort, Michael Cohen and trump apparently left in a very foul mood.
trump is expected to meet with putin, Saudi prince MBS, Chinese premier Xi, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Macron, Erdoğan, …. Remember the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg, where the trump team threw Molotov cocktails into the summit agenda and the Paris agreements and had the famous press conference lapping up to putin? Not sure what trump has on the agenda this time, he already called off the putin side meeting from the flight to Argentina.
We will find out tomorrow. Here is some info on the meeting and some links to follow tomorrow and on Saturday to keep up with the G20. Meanwhile, we have to keep an eye on grandmaster Mueller’s chess moves — maybe, he will stay quiet during the summit, maybe he will drop some bombshells on Friday.
The famous pouting picture from the 2018 G7.
This time, trump is off to a rocky start and already seems deflated. How much mischief can he make at the G20? Maybe, he will simply pout and tweet about Mueller and Cohen.
Here we go — no formal meetings and no press questions for trump. Maybe, it will rain in Buenos Aires.
Merkel will miss the first day of the summit -
When the Onion headlines no longer sound like fake news -
trump obviously has Mueller and Cohen on his mind — and Guiliani is on hand to to perform blame management -
What’s a G20 summit without protests? Not every voice gets heard in the hollow halls of the summit.
We will bring more G20 pictures, videos and news over the next two days. Share your findings and interesting bits of news, that might shed light on trump’s dark dealings and help us understand the future of humanity.
See diaries “The 2017 G20 - in Pictures and Tweets” at www.dailykos.com/… and “Merkel, Trump and Obama - The Eyes Have it” at www.dailykos.com/… for coverage of past summits.
Happy G20.