The following article by Josh Dawsey was posted on the Washington Post website June 6, 2018:
First lady Melania Trump made her first public appearance in nearly a month on June 6, appearing alongside President Trump at the FEMA headquarters. (The Washington Post)
The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.
But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party’s fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Continue reading “In private FEMA remarks, Trump’s focus strays from hurricanes”