Title : JUST HOW FAR MUST WE GO TO PLEASE PRESIDENT TRUMP?
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JUST HOW FAR MUST WE GO TO PLEASE PRESIDENT TRUMP?
GOAL OF MOVE: DON'T PROVOKE THE PRESIDENT
By: Mark Landler and Eileen Sullivan
The New York Times
30 My 2019
WASHINGTON — The White House’s directive to hide a Navy destroyer named after Senator John McCain during President Trump’s recent visit to a naval base in Japan was driven, administration officials said on Thursday, by a fear of bad visuals — the name of the president’s nemesis clearly visible in photographs of him.
In truth, it would have been a bad visual for only one person: Mr. Trump.
Yet an effort to airbrush an American warship by covering its name with a giant tarp and then hiding it with a barge demonstrates how anxious the Trump administration has become about the grudges of the president. It also shows the extraordinary lengths officials in the bureaucracy are willing to go to avoid provoking Mr. Trump.
Sailors from the McCain were not invited to Mr. Trump’s speech on another ship, the Wasp, at the Yokosuka Naval Base, although crew members from most other American ships at the base were, a Navy service member based at Yokosuka said.
When several sailors from the McCain — wearing uniforms that bore the ship’s name and insignia — turned up anyway at the Wasp to hear Mr. Trump’s speech, they were turned away, the service member said. The service member, who requested anonymity because he was not allowed to speak publicly, said that a gate guard told the two sailors they were not allowed on the Wasp because they were from the McCain.
The hide-the-ship scheme, which Mr. Trump insisted he knew nothing about but called a “well meaning” gesture, drew a torrent of criticism on Thursday from retired military officers. They said it was an egregious attempt to politicize the armed forces, while Democratic lawmakers termed it petty vindictiveness against a dead war hero.
The episode came at the end of a visit in which Mr. Trump had already sided with a foreign dictator against his national security adviser over the threat posed by North Korean missiles, and joined the North Korean regime in heaping ridicule on a former vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr
The email instructing the Navy to obscure the ship, the John S. McCain, came from the White House military operations office, after consultation with a White House advance team working in Japan, according to an administration official. The Navy initially complied with the order by hanging a tarp over the ship’s name. But higher-level officers got wind of the plan and ordered the tarp removed and the barge moved before Mr. Trump arrived.
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NOTE: Thus begins an article in the New York Times today. The full article is here: HIDING A SHIP FROM TRUMP'S EYES Trump has denied that he knew anything about the efforts to cover up the name of the the Navy ship, the John S. McCain. This presents somewhat of quandary: Is Trump telling the truth (Who knows?) in this rare case? And, if he is, does it mean that his White House staff is magically projecting into the future to be sure that Trump isn't made uncomfortable? Does the Navy have any ships named after Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi two of Trump's most powerful enemies? No, I suppose not.
But then what will the White House do on Trump's upcoming trip to Great Britain? Massive demonstrations are in the works so will the staff outfit him with blinders as he travels from Heathrow to Buckingham Palace? The absurdity of this stuff is beyond comprehension. But following the logical runnings of this White House policy, how far will it extend to the rest of us in having to adapt to Trump's desire not to experience anything that upsets him? Will all Central Americans be barred from his public rallies - as those two sailors were barred - so that he doesn't have to face the anger and ire of folks who have immigrated here from Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador? Will the Secret Service with the help of local police forces or maybe even the U.S. Army simply clear the streets of Trump protesters so that he won't be made uncomfortable?
We are all aware that Trump, illogically, claims that John McCain was no war hero (he was imprisoned and Trump doesn't count this as worthy) and he cast the deciding vote to block Trump and Ryan's efforts to destroy Obamacare. But Trump can't stand to even see McCain's name anywhere? Does the sight engender some sort of psychosis or irrational fear in Trump? Is it some sort of phobia? Just what is it that the White House staff and the Navy - initially - were trying to protect Trump from?
It's very difficult to discuss virtually anything that Trump does these days with any sort of rationality. It's become so crazy that we are all left speechless in the wake of his actions. It's almost as if we have a dictator on our hands who has so corrupted the government that we no longer have the liturgy to explain him.
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