The State Visit has begun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=LSjhTmIBPTE
CSPAN will offer hours and hours of coverage over several days. Here is their schedule:
White House Schedule:
♦ 9:00am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the arrival ceremony of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Mrs. Jenny Morrison of Australia – South Lawn
♦ 9:30am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the official guest book signing and leader gift exchange – Blue Room
♦ 9:40am ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in a receiving line with the official Australian Delegation – Cross Hall
♦ 10:00am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – Oval Office
♦ 10:30am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – Cabinet Room
♦ 11:45am ET THE PRESIDENT participates in a joint press availability with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia – East Room
♦ 7:00pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in the arrival of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Lady Jenny Morrison of Australia – North Portico
♦ 7:05pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in couples reception with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison – Yellow Oval Room
♦ 7:35pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in a receiving line – Blue Room
♦ 8:20pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY host a state dinner with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison – Rose Garden
First Lady Melania has chosen to deck the Rose Garden with green and gold, with yellow garden roses, wattle and golden champagne grapes decorating the tables.
Approximately 100 guests will enjoy a menu of sunchoke ravioli, Dover sole with fennel mousseline, and Lady Apple tart was chosen to “pay homage to Australia’s special blend of culinary adaptations from its various cultures, not unlike the diverse food traditions of the United States”, a spokesperson for Mrs Trump said.
♦ 9:40pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY participate in entertainment with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison –
FLOTUS Melania has been working hard on the preparations.
Look at all the violinists practicing.
Australia is a member of Five Eyes. With the recent discovery of Canada’s top intel official being a spy, there will be much to discuss. Look for conversations about China, rare earth elements, muslim immigration, tech, Iran, and more China.
Dinner
https://twitter.com/Chris_1791/status/1175028621687156736/photo/1
3 courses instead of 5-6 like the earlier Presidents – biggest eaters in history were the Victorians!
….or maybe the Romans who gorged until they barfed and ate again. (Roman orgies included food as well as s-x)
BBC article on the visit:
Interesting time frame: Biblical time frame for ceremonial cleansing is 7 days….hmmm?
Scott Morrison, PM of Australia, was elected primarily because the Aussies thought “climate change had gone too far”, and Morrison is more conservative in his approach.
Well, the UN General Assembly has BANNED the Aussie delegation from speaking out against Climate Action.
No dissenting voices allowed.
What about China?
*crickets*
Really. That tyrannical Guterres needs to be told to pound sand.
Sorry – we won’t listen to the
ANTI-GREENING
EXTINCTION-REPLICATING
LONG-EARTH DECEIVING
FALSELY CONTROLLING
COLD-CONSPIRACY
CHINA CHUMP
TERRAFORMING IDIOT
SELL-OUT
DUPES.
Got pencilneck?
Whoops – I mean Pencilneck.
Got CHINESE FLEAS?
Got WINNIE THE POISON POOH?
NOT THIS WOLF.
Well fu un
Dinner tonight is IN the ROSE GARDEN
Nice touch, FLOTUS.
Romantic.
Very cool. Great idea!
The rose garden is bigger than the east room. That might be part of it. Seriously. When that room is set for a state dinner getting between the tables is a challenge. I’ve often wondered if that is part of the reason why Trump hosts so many world leaders at Mar-A-Lago.
This is gorgeous
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE54Hb-W4AAIfae?format=jpg
Can we not do pics anymore from Twitter?
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1175008629939953666/photo/1
Twitter is playing with their “embedding model” to force people to accept advertising trackers.
Let’s see if this works:
You have to remove the “?format=” and replace it with a dot.
🙂
Yes, it is, thank you Daughn for putting this together. I wonder why seating is so small? Love the intimacy and outdoor setting. Again, saving the American taxpayer many dollars. The menu looked elegant yet simple too. The color scheme is glorious. Next country to be freed! France state dinner, a year or so later, at G7 the message is sent out France is freed! So now Australia’s turn!
Seriously. I think micron has Stockholm syndrome
I don’t know if you have followed any of Serial Brain2’s blogs or reddit posts, but I have and so far so good as to his out takes of information provided. Here is what I used as a basis for my France is free statement:
https://www.reddit.com/user/SerialBrain2/comments/cy6hzi/trumps_big_victories_at_the_g7_part_2_trump_freed/
and why I say to watch FLOUTUS’S wardrobe
https://www.reddit.com/user/SerialBrain2/comments/d2vl4l/trumps_big_victories_at_the_g7_part_3_the_power/
there are other posts by him/her that reflect Japan’s PM Abe’s wardrobe choices and other FLOTUS clothing choices as signs and signals. If you prefer video of the same reports they are found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gunnytorres
the And We Know UTube channel.
Thankyou. I think duchess provides a lot of sb2s videos here.
They’re dragging out all the pomp and ceremony today.
We had a 19 Gun salute:
They should’ve aimed at the UN… 🙂
(OK, OK, it’s a long way away, I know…).
Spit!!!!!!!!!
Arrival at the airport:
News | The White House – 09/19 and 09/20/2019
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
FACT SHEETS
President Donald J. Trump Is Celebrating Our Long and Steadfast Friendship with Australia
FOREIGN POLICY
Issued on: September 20, 2019
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-celebrating-long-steadfast-friendship-australia/
Beautiful Post, Daughn! Covered all of the bases – you did – Thank you so much!!! God Bless You!!!
Thanks for rounding up all of this for us, Daughn!
Appreciate it!
😀🤗👍
Thank you Daughn!
How is your water boiler situation?
Reader’s Digest version. Big T had to travel 35 miles for special part. When the figured out where he was from, the guys behind the counter laughed. They already KNEW all about it.
Not a good sign.
Daughn I love that they heard about your problem 🙂
Sorry for the long rip big T had to make.
We have similar problems living in a small town. I need work on a steam furnace some pipes have to be replaced. I cannot get anyone to paint the windows of my home.
We got a worker from Columbus 100 miles away from us to put leave guard on the drain pipe.
I empathize with you and I hope all is fixed for you.
Nice thread! I want to know (and may never know) what will be said about Spygate and abuses of the Five Eyes system.
Thank you, Daughn! What a lovely setting in the Rose Garden with string music. So sophisticated, elegant and romantic.
I especially like knowing the guests are actually working for our nation – probable guests like Mnuchin, Ross, and Pompeo – rather than vacuous celebrities from Hollywood.
The Theme is Green and Gold – Australia’s colors.
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will dine on filet of Dover sole under the stars in a Rose Garden arrayed in shades of green and gold in tribute to his country’s national colors when President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner in more than a year on Friday.
Morrison is just the second world leader to be granted the high diplomatic honor of a state visit during the Trump administration.”
https://www.apnews.com/b98122a3a3d84a2c91c8ec8014276ca0
Looks like the First Lady has chosen the Truman China for this occasion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_china
For a previous dinner, she chose the GWB (BushII) china and used white flowers accents of light and dark green.
The Hawaii blue green Obama china is going to be the dickens to match with flowers and it doesn’t go with the flag and a patriotic theme either.
Neither did obumma
Egg-zacktly!!!
Truman China! I love it! 😎
Hmmm. Might have been a message… Xi’s probably losing his appetite about now…
Playing “Pooh Styx”, as it were…
President Trump Participates in a Joint Press Availability with the Prime Minister of Australia
LIVE NOW!!!
Watch FLOTUS’S wardrobe choices along with accessories. There will be messaging in them! She will look elegant as usual, what a fine table and setting she designs for guests! So considerate of the guest’s country of origin flag or national colors. Outside to avoid listening devices? Construction still going on inside?
she be’s a bright bulb Bren………….
That bees fur sure, Pr!. Her dress today sorta like the color of the inauguration ceremony outfit.
Ot
Fauxcahontas hammering home that she is a con.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/19/elizabeth-warren-hires-lobbyist/
Hires lobbyist the after calling it legalized bribery.
Elizabeth Warren Hires Lobbyist One Day After Releasing Plan Calling Lobbying ‘Legalized Bribery’
dailycaller.com
They all say pretty words, but “by their fruits they shall be known”
twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1175058527653519365
#ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
This is a homeless camp in Los Angeles.
It’s probably 30+ tons of trash.
Why are you all protesting, instead of helping clean up?
It’s so bad in LA that people are getting Typhus.
#ClimateStrike
7:45 AM · Sep 20, 2019
#ThePersistence on Twitter
He is rubbing their hypocrisy in their faces! While doing some real good, by his fruits he shall be known! He is teaming with #Walkaway, the dims are in deep doo doo!
Literally . In la and franpoocisco
President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia
Thank you for this link, Duchess.
Most welcome, Daughn!
LIST of White House State Dinners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Dinners_in_the_United_States
History of White House dinners: “Thomas Jefferson was many things—writer, scholar, horticulturist, architect, interior designer, paleontologist, inventor, philosopher, politician—and an expert of wine and fine cuisine. He preferred to be addressed as Mr. Jefferson, not Mr. President, and criticized both George Washington and John Adams for their “imperial” federalist ways. He advocated a plainness of manner in presidential style; but his table was set for a king. Margaret Bayard Smith, a Washington hostess and wife of Samuel Harrison Smith, the publisher of the National Intelligencer newspaper, was often a guest of Mr. Jefferson’s. She described Jefferson’s dinners as “republican simplicity . . . united to Epicurean delicacy.”
Jefferson loved all things French and employed a French cook, Honoré Julien. Patrick Henry once remarked that Jefferson, after serving as minister to France, “came home from France so Frenchified that he abjured his native victuals.” But Jefferson loved native-grown fruits and vegetables—corn, black-eyed peas, huckleberries, turnip greens. Invitations to the Jefferson’s dinner parties at the White House were coveted not only for social and political reasons, but because the food was delectable.”
James Buchanan went overboard for his inaugural dinner:
Menu for the James Buchanan Inaugural Ball—March 4, 1857
400 gallons of oysters
60 saddles of mutton
4 saddles of venison
125 beef tongues
75 hams
500 quarts of chicken salad
500 quarts of jellies
A four-foot cake
$3,000 worth of wine
Was a Democrat, of course.
Lincoln, a Republican, was more down to earth:
Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Luncheon Menu, March 4, 1861
Mock Turtle Soup
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Parsley Potatoes
Blackberry Pie
Coffee
President and Mrs. Eisenhower’s Dinner Menu
in Honor of King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, October 28, 1955
Shrimp Cocktail
Cocktail Sauce Saltine Crackers
Sherry
Clear Consommé
Sliced Lemmon
Celery Hearts • Assorted Olives
Fairy Toast
White Fish in Cheese Sauce
Coleslaw
Boston Brown Bread Sandwiches
White Wine
Crown Roast of Lamb Stuffed With Spanish Rice
Mint Jelly
French Peas • Braised Celery
Bread Sticks
Orange and Roquefort Cheese Salad Bowl
French Dressing
Toasted Triscuits
Champagne
Caramel Cream Mold
Burnt Caramel Sauce
Lemon Iced Diamond Shaped Cookies
Nuts • Candies • Demitasse
President and Mrs. John Kennedy’s Menu
for a Luncheon with Princess Grace, May 24, 1961
Soft-Shell Crab Amadine
Puligny-Montrachet 1958
Spring Lamb Á La Broche Aux Primeurs
Château Croton Grancey 1955
Salade Mimosa
Dom Pérignon 1952
Strawberies Romanoff
Petits Fours Secs
Demi-tasse
More – plus historical recipes – http://ourwhitehouse.org/a-taste-of-the-past/
News roundup has been posted if interested.
Flep you should know we live for your News roundup. Its my daily ‘paper’
I like scomo. He’s maga. (Make Australia great again). Also solid with Potus. He knifed all the intelligence assholes involved in spygate as soon as elected
I love the photo’s and how they are going to have it outside.
I always think POTUS gave macron a state dinner just to hear the little idiot brag while POTUS took notes.
The First Lady wore Theodore Scanlan:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ost6ugmNx/
Just my opinion…not very flattering to her…
Scanlan sent a size too small.
They finished the welcome ceremony with a Sousa march – which one is it?
The Stars and Stripes Forever!!!
STATEMENTS & RELEASES
First Lady Melania Trump Releases Details for the Trump Administration’s Official Visit and State Dinner with Australia
Issued on: September 19, 2019
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/first-lady-melania-trump-releases-details-trump-administrations-official-visit-state-dinner-australia/
Additional Information
The guest list and First Lady’s gown details will be released at the beginning of the dinner.
Here we go, they’re here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dinner has started.
Jenny Morrison’s gown is WOWWWWWWW, pretty.
She looks great.
Melania gown……. pretty, aqua, too much fabric.
Here is the gown
https://twitter.com/jordanparker_/status/1175186383155224583
The First Lady’s gown is by J Mendel!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2pp4tfgwO4/
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse_Fash/status/1175188386660999168
Guliani
Bill Barr and wife Christine
Larry Kudlow and his gorgeous wife.
Ivanka’s dress…..
Kellyanne Conway is stunning!
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse_Fash/status/1175186818469421057
Stephen Miller and his date, spox for VP Pence.
More:
Kansas
Lighthizer
KellyAnne Conway is smashing, and Maria Bartiromo is there.
Greg Norman looks great.
Here we go, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, with spouses.
Aqua Blue, not mint green
Here’s Flep’s pick for 2024, Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey, she’s a knock-out.
Stephanie Grisham, new Press Sec and her husband.
Wilburine!!!!!!!!!!!!
Break, break, something big is going on in Egypt.
https://twitter.com/b_momani/status/1175185093859708932
Guys, we have protests breaking out in Egypt.
https://twitter.com/b_momani/status/1175195908084047872
Their saying it is live fire, can anyone else listen who knows way more about this than I would.
https://twitter.com/b_momani/status/1175194560693178368
Via Linda:
I was wrong – it’s not the Truman China:
“State Dinner
The colors chosen for this visit are green and gold, which are the Australian national colors. These colors were derived from the national flower of Australia, the golden wattle, which has a yellow flower and green foliage. The dinner is being held in the Rose Garden, which will be filled with American varieties of yellow and white roses. Gold woven baskets filled with yellow garden roses and golden wattle signify the combined friendship and long-lasting relationship between the United States and Australia. Ombré shades of yellows and greens were chosen for the table linens, and the tables will be illuminated with gold oil lamps. Golden champagne grapes will be placed on top of the tables, highlighting the richness of each of the countries’ wine industries. The china settings for the baseplate and dinner service will consist of alternating patterns from the administrations of Presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.” – https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/first-lady-melania-trump-releases-details-trump-administrations-official-visit-state-dinner-australia/
http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/48049/file-14375620-jpg/images/bush_w.h._china_full_shot_3_pieces_laura-bush-white-house-china-2.jpg
Very clever of Mrs. Trump to mix the china with the green and yellow theme. With extensive use, the White House china gets broken and sometimes there are not enough pieces of one set to serve the crowd at a State Dinner. That is why our First Ladies design and order new sets.
The toast:
Robert O’Brien New National Security Advisor + wife
Just beautiful! Thank you Daughn, and everyone else who added to my education – the tidbits on the china were fascinating, plus seeing the photos of folks arriving. I’m always surprised by who gets invited, and I love that Franklin Graham was there.
Thank you Daughn for the continued development update. Also,anything more out of Egypt? That’s a very interesting development. Our mocking bird 🐦press is pushing for war with Iran fur sures. The deep state wants that soooo baaaad!!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/09/20/fashion-notes-melania-trump-is-shades-of-cool-for-u-s-australia-state-dinner/
How exciting! Laura Ingraham just flashed pictures of Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo (in red) attending the State Dinner.
How fantastic!
Thanks Daughn for posting…this is just wonderful! I can’t wait for our country to start benefitting from this renewed alliance. I hope Scomo has his notebook for tips.
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
BTW have noticed a lot of bigwig politicians disappear from the public eye…I would say a few deep staters among them, it seems our swamp is also being drained.
MAGA. Make Australia Great Again! (I hope you don’t mind 😉)