Trump takes first international trip
CNN: “President Donald Trump is abroad for the first time as commander in chief.” CNN reported that President Donald Trump is taking his first international trip, “undertaking an ambitious agenda of diplomacy in a nine-day, five-country trip.” Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Vatican City, Brussels, and Sicily. [CNN.com, 5/19/17]
Media figures heap on praise
CBS’ Bob Schieffer on CNN: Trump “actually sounded presidential. … He didn’t sound like the guy at the end of the bar popping off. He sounded like someone who had actually thought about what he was going to say before he said it.”
[CNN, Reliable Sources, 5/21/17]
Fox’s Abby Huntsman: “Talk about coming at the right time to change the narrative … and really to appear as presidential as I think we have seen him so far in this role.”
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/22/17]
CNN’s David Drucker: “Here is a president acting presidentially. Now look, yes, it’s a low bar. Yes, he’s set low expectations, but it’s all about the visuals.”
[CNN, New Day, 5/22/17]
Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass on MSNBC: “It was an in some ways surprisingly or uncharacteristically normal trip [where] what didn’t happen is at least as important as what happened.”
[MSNBC, Morning Joe, 5/22/17]
RealClearPolitics’ A.B. Stoddard on CNN: Trump is doing “a great job.” His trip was “very ambitious: high risk, high reward.”
[CNN, New Day, 5/22/17]