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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu May 18, 2017, 11:31 AM May 2017

Nato officials will ensure no one talks for more than four minutes to keep Donald Trumps attention

Nato will reportedly put a time limit on speeches at an upcoming summit with Donald Trump, in an attempt to maintain the US President’s attention span.

Speakers will be limited to between two and four minutes, sources within the organisation told Foreign Policy magazine. The summit of Nato’s 28 member countries will be held at the end of the month and the Belgian capital, Brussels.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nato-donald-trump-four-minute-time-limit-keep-us-president-attention-span-meeting-a7738626.html

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Nato officials will ensure no one talks for more than four minutes to keep Donald Trumps attention (Original Post) turbinetree May 2017 OP
Headsmack headsmack headsmack louis-t May 2017 #1
I really do not know whether to scream or cry. dixiegrrrrl May 2017 #4
And they've been told to praise him for his huge win. louis-t May 2017 #7
What do you want to bet a half to 2 minutes is actually Hortensis May 2017 #2
Be proud of your lazy-assed cowardly president, America... Blue_Tires May 2017 #3
When I saw this headline, BlueMTexpat May 2017 #5
And limit the vocabulary to a first grade level. Nitram May 2017 #6
We look for things that make us go. louis-t May 2017 #8

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. I really do not know whether to scream or cry.
Thu May 18, 2017, 09:27 PM
May 2017

Can we get a petition to have Obama back?
If it were not for Cheney and Rove, I would even welcome Shrub.
28 nations in NATO and they are seriously considering dumbing down the conference because of that moran?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. What do you want to bet a half to 2 minutes is actually
Thu May 18, 2017, 12:43 PM
May 2017

considered more optimal but officials wouldn't agree to limit themselves that much? Also that they were afraid that might push Rump into deciding to read off Air Force One's menu, and/or schedule, or worse, to pad his visit?

BlueMTexpat

(15,368 posts)
5. When I saw this headline,
Fri May 19, 2017, 08:56 AM
May 2017

my first impression was that Borowitz had moved to The Independent.

But no, this IS real news. What a shameful representative of our country!

Nitram

(22,794 posts)
6. And limit the vocabulary to a first grade level.
Fri May 19, 2017, 09:53 AM
May 2017

See Don run! See Don run after Vlad! See Vlad smile. Vlad is happy. Don is happy. Vlad and Don are friends.

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