Vive la France!

[The Mad Monk]

Dinner's approach stinks of provinciality.
American? british? bastard cherokee?
who knows.

Even that eastern european bebro seems to have way more sense than you

[Uncle Sparky]

Is anyone else really pumped about Trump's European adventure starting next week? Hilarity will ensue!

[rah]

What's the over-under on how many embarrassing moments Trump will generate? I'll start at 4. My definition of the threshold will be any situation were the alt right media will feel the need to defend the action and more hilarity will ensue.

[Ming]

Over

[rah]

Well let's see. From a news report, here are the THREE CORE PURPOSES.

"The trip has three core purposes: first, to reaffirm America's global leadership; second, to continue building key relationships with world leaders; and third, to broadcast a message of unity to America's friends and to the faithful of three of the world's greatest religions," National Security McMaster said.

So my bet will be the under at 3. One event to scuttle each of the three core purposes, especially #2 and #3. He may double up on #2.
We'll try to keep track here.

Any other guesses?

[BeBMan]

Macron named couple ministers meanwhile, which are from various sides of the spectrum, conservative, socialist, liberal (in the Euro sense). Reactions to his victory feels almost a bit like "change" and Obamamania, which means meeting the expectations of being the new Messiah will be kinda difficult...however, let's see what he can do.

In other news I came across some interesting media stuff saying how his campaign successfully dealt with the thread of being hacked. His campaign actually did got hacked (that was all over the media), but it has not had the desired effect. This is - if those reports are credible - to a good degree because his team had an explicit strategy to actively combat this kind of hacking - by feeding loads of info to phishing sites.

These were mixed true/fake info, so I understand when those got published the obvious fakes delegitimized the complete hacking as is became clear they were nonsense. Plus this method increases the costs for the "attacker" who would actually have to go through everything he got to determineif it's credible info which can be published as a "success" of the hack, or fake, which would damage the attacker as outlined above.

This is mentioned here in German (briefly in the last part): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/d...a-1148082.html

And here is a lenghty English article: https://hackernoon.com/analyzing-a-c...r-22553abb038b

The only prob I see is that this method could also be abused for bas purposes, but otoh it's not like ppl with bad intentions would never get similar ideas on their own...

[BeBMan]

Hm, I just posted stuff which was briefly marked "unapproved", and does not show up as post now...is this still floating around somewhere or lost? Or maybe I hit the wrong button? Comment maybe? However, it was intended as normal reply

[Uncle Sparky]

It will be over. Much of what happens publically on these trips is carefully choreographed by the various delegations, with the majority of the important stuff done in camera before the leaders even arrive. But, this is Trump.
He won't be able to restrain himself when given cameras and a crowd...and Twitter works in Europe and the middle-East.
I'm going with a minimum of one outrage per day.