{"id":85662,"date":"2017-10-06T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=85662"},"modified":"2017-10-06T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:03:03","slug":"trump-youll-find-out-what-calm-before-the-storm-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=85662","title":{"rendered":"<b>Trump: &#8216;You\u2019ll find out&#8217; what &#8216;calm before the storm&#8217; means<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY JORDAN FABIAN<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump once again says &#8220;you&#8217;ll find out&#8221; when asked about what he meant by his &#8220;calm before the storm&#8221; comments <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mMFAUtkACc\">pic.twitter.com\/mMFAUtkACc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeedNews\/status\/916370306377355265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Friday kept the public wondering about his cryptic warning regarding a \u201ccalm before the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll find out,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what he meant by his comment.<\/p>\n<p>The president left many people scratching their heads after he offered mysterious remarks before a Thursday dinner with military leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys know what this represents?\u201d Trump asked reporters in the room. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s the calm before the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he was referring to \u2014 such as possible action against Iran or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria \u2014 Trump responded, \u201cWe have the world\u2019s greatest military people in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll find out,\u201d he said when he was pressed again.<\/p>\n<p>Later Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say whether the president was hinting at a military action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re never going to say in advance what the president is going to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments came after a meeting with the military brass that touched on Iran and North Korea. Multiple reports indicate the president is prepared to decertify the landmark nuclear pact with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>White House reporters were called in to cover the photo-op after staff informed them Trump would be making no more public appearances, raising speculation he was prepared to make a major announcement.<\/p>\n<p>But the president has given no indication what he was referring to, an indication he may have been trying to be provocative rather than offering a hint of future action.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said she believes Trump was making \u201cjust a general comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not aware of anything specific that was a reference to,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>-Updated 3:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/354277-trump-youll-find-out-what-calm-before-the-storm-means\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/354277-trump-youll-find-out-what-calm-before-the-storm-means<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}