WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is welcoming Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to the White House days before a crucial secession vote in his country.
The regional government in Catalonia is holding a binding referendum Sunday on separating from Spain. But the Spanish government insists such a vote is illegal and promises it won’t take place. Catalonia is one of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions. Its capital is the Mediterranean port city of Barcelona, a favorite for tourists.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert recently said the U.S. has no position on the referendum.
She says the U.S. will work with any government or entity that comes out of the vote.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday she had nothing to add to the State Department’s position on the issue.
Interesting since I have a daughter doing a study abroad in Sevilla, pretty good ways from Barcelona though it seems.
Following El Dotard proclaiming how “proud I am to welcome El Presidenté Rajoy to the White House,” the Spanish Prime Minister spent a few minutes playing “¿Pendejo dice qué?” until Cockholster tired of answering “What?”
He then promised to send the US military to Spain to “take care of that uprising thing. If you can’t do it,” he told Rajoy, “America can.”
An anonymous White House spokesman later explained that the President actually meant he would send American troops to Spain after he rid Mexico of drug dealers, ensured the complete obliteration of the Korean Peninsula, and completed planning for a Fourth of July military parade that would be even more spectacular than Bastille Day.