#Trumps wedge salad trial#

#Trumps wedge salad trial#

Most effusive on the red carpet was the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who stood amid a scrum of reporters and said he'd gladly be willing to testify in an impeachment trial if he's asked. It was a sentiment echoed by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson who predicted Trump would overcome his current predicament. Ivanka Trump, in a red gown with bell sleeves, slipped in behind a wave of fellow guests - including the gold sequined leader of the 'Trumpettes' women's group, Toni Holt Kramer, who was speaking at the microphones as Trump and her husband, fellow White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, walked quickly past with their children.Įric Trump was more forthcoming, telling reporters he believed impeachment was 'backfiring' on Democrats. Tiffany Trump only smiled when asked her New Year's resolution. and his girlfriend, the former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, declined to answer a question on Iran. Trump Ballroom, the Louis XIV-style hall he erected and named for himself after a prolonged battle with Palm Beach in the 1990s.Īll four of his adult children arrived with a significant other in tow. Trump spoke after a parade of fur-and-diamond strung guests, each paying hundreds or thousands of dollars to join him, streamed into the Donald J. Happy New Year!' he wrote on Twitter a few hours before joining his guests at the party. If the image of a tuxedo-clad President issuing bellicose threats to Iran as 'America's #1 corporate and private party band' tuned up nearby gave Trump or any of his aides pause, it did not show. But if comes to that, he said, it 'wouldn't last long.' This will never, ever be a Benghazi,' he said, without explaining how protesters were able to breach layers of embassy security in Baghdad to begin with. Trump showed no signs of souring on Kim, calling him a 'man of his word' and repeating his idea that a threatened 'Christmas gift' might be a 'beautiful vase' instead of a long-range missile.Īnd he trumpeted his handling of the Iraq situation and compared it favorably to another incident of violence at an American diplomatic post that occurred under his predecessor. Meanwhile, precarious diplomacy with North Korea appeared to be faltering as Kim Jong Un teased a new 'strategic weapon' and i nsisted there 'will never' be denuclearization on the Korean peninsula if the US 'persists in its hostile policy towards' the hermit nation. Protesters stormed the American embassy in Baghdad, and a furious Trump blamed Iran. Trump was appearing as heightened tensions and dramatic violence threaten to force him into confrontation as he begins the 2020 election year - a less-than-ideal position for a President who has vowed to end or resolve foreign conflicts. 'We're going to have a great year, I predict,' Trump said as he arrived to his party.

The now-familiar dichotomy between Trump the billionaire celebrity and Trump the commander in chief is never more apparent than at Mar-a-Lago, the South Florida estate where guests jockey to meet the proprietor who also happens to run the country.Īppearing before a bank of cameras he had invited onto his property, Trump warned Iran that the US would vanquish it quickly and deemed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a 'highly overrated person' as his wife looked on. He was ushering out a decade that began by crowning Bret Michaels the Celebrity Apprentice and ended with fresh risk for presiding over conflict on two continents. President Donald Trumpbegan a new year Tuesday perched squarely on the junction of opulence and bluster that have come to define his personal and political persona, the clink of Champagne glasses wafting under his stern warning to Iran and a red carpet framing his flaming of Democrats. Canapés and a 'big fat hoax.' Peonies and the potential for war.