Loose lips star on Facebook
The Times also notices the whole “talking about national security in a public place surrounded by people eating their highpriced dinners” issue.
By the looks of his Facebook feed, Richard DeAgazio is a big fan of President Trump’s. Witness his Facebook feed on anti-immigrant protests in Italy, courtesy of the Russian propaganda network RT, the photo of Bill Clinton with a woman that he spuriously identifies as the former president’s new girlfriend, and a caricature of Barack Obama in a sombrero.
But Mr. DeAgazio did the current president no favors with his fanboy posts from Mar-a-Lago this weekend in a public dining room as the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, and the president of the United States scrambled to respond to a North Korean ballistic missile test.
Cool for the rest of us that he took snaps though.
It was a remarkable display on Mr. Trump’s part of a lack of concern for prying eyes and security awareness.
But hey, Mr. DeAgazio also posed with the service member who carries the nuclear launch codes for the president.
“This is Rick…He carries the “football” The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the President’s emergency satchel, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack.”
Public posts, too.
But hey, emails!!!
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1442253445793112/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1442260619125728/?type=3&theater
I do NOT want to believe that the person carrying the launch codes has been identified. No one could be so monumentally stupid, even one of Trump’s courtiers.
It’s all a wind-up.
The world really needs to replace the USA with a different hegemon. Unfortunately the other candidates are even worse.
“This is Rick…” — No, Dick, this is RICH. Much.Too.Rich. Deserves a Kick, Dick.
Apparently they can.
Well honestly it seems very unlikely that a military person who carries the football would tell some random person so, even if they both are at Mar-a-Lago, and it seems even more unlikely that said military person would pose for a photo after telling random person so. It seems almost out of the question.
Am I the only one wondering why the president needs immediate access to nuclear weapons while he’s out for lunch?
well, latsot, what if someone insults Ivanka or refuses to carry Trump lamps and he happens to be at lunch when it happens? What if he couldn’t respond immediately, but had to wait until he got back to his room? That would be sad. Very sad. Bigly.
latsot@7
Given the the speed of ICBMs launched in a first strike from, Siberia, Eastern China or North Korea the US president has literally minutes to respond, whatever he’s doing.
@ latsot #7
Well, he might be presented with an overdone steak, or runny eggs. It would be best to give the chef responsible an unambiguous message. What’s the good of nukes if you can’t use ’em? Gotta show ’em who’s boss.
@RJW
I’m aware of that but nobody is going to start throwing around nukes with absolutely no warning and the president – even Trump – isn’t going to be sauntering out to lunch if we’re on the brink of nucular war. I just find it chilling that he’s got the button so casually at hand given that is is, afterall, Trump and the eggs might indeed be runny.