Report: Trump Blindsided RNC Planners With His Threat To Pull Convention From NC

President Donald Trump meets with Republican members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House on May 8, 2020. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump reportedly went rogue on Monday when he threatened to pull the Republican National Convention out of its planned venue in Charlotte, North Carolina if the state’s governor did not roll back the restrictions of his stay-at-home order that would hamper full attendance at the convention in August.

Unnamed sources told CNN on Tuesday that before Trump’s tweets on the issue, convention CEO Marcia Kelly and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had actually had cordial conversations with Gov. Roy Cooper (D) last week about the logistics of holding the convention amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

During Kelly’s call with Cooper, the CEO discussed strategies for in-person and virtual conventions. There reportedly had not been threatening demands made for a full convention.

RNC officials were thus taken by surprise when Trump fired off the tweets declaring that “we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site” if the North Carolina governor did not allow the convention to run as normal.

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  1. Report: Trump Blindsided RNC Planners With His Threat To Pull Convention From NC

    Commander Chaos does it again. And again. And again. And again. Ad infinitum. Ad nauseum.

    He is a one-trick pony and a horses ass.

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  3. Anyone who ever worked for him is familiar with these prima-donna tantrums, certainly. And it would be amusing and we’d get a chuckle out of his people’s discomfiture if he hadn’t done the same thing with the coronavirus response, done nothing out of an agony of indecision and a delusional belief that the most important thing is to pretend everything’s normal. He’s killed 100,000 of us that way. So it’s less amusing than it might, alas, have been. :frowning:

  4. Trump’s call to pull the RNC from Charlotte was one of his distractions from the number of dead Coronavirus victims exceeding 100,000. Ditto Trump’s ugly and false attacks on Joe Scarborough.

    He’s playing the media.

  5. The Charlotte Airport and transport to it will be cauldrons…hauling already infected people.

    I am quite sure the RNC will find other words to describe it.

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