Secret Service Cancelled President Trump’s Surprise Visit to the DMZ

The fog can get very think around the Imjim River area where Panmunjom is located.  I have been out in the field before north of the Imjim where people got lost because of how thick the fog was and had to yell for people to assist them to get back to their vehicle.  If the fog was that thick I can understand why the Secret Service would not want to land the helicopter.  However, you would think they would have had a Plan B to get the President there by car:

A surprise visit by President Donald Trump to the heavily fortified Korean demilitarized zone was thwarted by bad weather Wednesday — a day after Trump modulated his aggressive rhetoric and urged North Korea to come to the negotiating table.

Trump had been scheduled to make the unannounced early-morning trip to the DMZ amid heightened tensions between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear program.

Marine One left Seoul at daybreak and flew most of the way to the DMZ but was forced to turn back just five minutes out due to poor weather conditions. Reporters traveling in a chinook helicopter as part of the president’s envoy saw fog out the helicopters’ windows, and weather reports from near the heavily fortified border showed misting conditions and visibility below one mile. Pilots, officials said, could not see the other helicopters in the air.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president was disappointed he couldn’t make the trip. “I think he’s pretty frustrated,” she told reporters traveling with the president. “It was obviously something he wanted to do.”

Before he left for Asia, a White House official had ruled out the DMZ trip for Trump, claiming the president didn’t have time on his schedule and that DMZ visits have become a little cliché.

But Sanders said the visit had been planned well before Trump’s departure for Asia. The trip was kept secret, Sanders said, for security reasons.

Trump had been scheduled to make the visit with South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who traveled separately and landed about a 20-minute drive from the DMZ. Sanders said the military and the U.S. Secret Service had deemed that landing would not be safe, and Trump deferred to them.  [Stars & Stripes]

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J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Nice to have the Secret Service around to blame. Why announce that this secret visit failed? You just end up looking like a pussy without courage of conviction to see something through.

Mike Morgan
Mike Morgan
6 years ago

Kennedy pooh-poohed the Secret Service concerns about riding through Dallas in an open car.

Do you think any other President is ging to do that again?

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
6 years ago

Come on J6, give the man some credit. He’s playing 5D chess.

This is just a cover story. Trump actually went all the way over the border for a secret meeting with Kim. Now that half the country is on to the Russians for helping him win the election through a couple hundred thousand in f a ce book ads, he needs new cyber allies.

That’s right. If he wins in 2020, it won’t be because the democrats lost their way and cared more about illegal immigrants and PC culture than the middle class and put up a horribly flawed and corrupt candidate. It will be because of North Korean collusion.

Democrats and the media won’t catch on until the election is over, at which point it will be heavily reported with multiple investigations being pursued. Jim Comey will be on the shortlist for special counsel.

Gosh guys. Think a couple steps ahead will you?

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