{"id":85877,"date":"2017-10-08T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=85877"},"modified":"2017-10-08T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T20:58:24","slug":"white-house-says-trumps-calm-before-the-storm-comment-is-extremely-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=85877","title":{"rendered":"White House Says Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Calm Before The Storm&#8221; Comment Is &#8220;Extremely Serious&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-05\/president-trump-warns-ominously-its-calm-storm\"><em>President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;calm before the storm&#8221; comments last night,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reporters tried to ask him once again what he meant today, to which he responded &#8220;you&#8217;ll see.&#8221; However, during The White House Press Briefing,\u00a0<em><strong>Sarah Sanders replied to questions suggesting the President&#8217;s comments were &#8220;extremely serious,&#8221; however without offering an explanation<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sarah Sanders suggested POTUS &quot;calm before the storm&quot; comments are &quot;extremely serious.&quot; But offered no explanation what they meant.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/916378694867972097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked if Trump was referring to military action when he said &#8220;calm before the storm.&#8221; Sarah Sanders replied &#8220;We&#8217;re never going to say in advance what the president&#8217;s going to do. You&#8217;ll have to wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a follow up question &#8220;how seriously should America&#8217;s public or America&#8217;s adversaries take these comments&#8221;, the White House press secretary said &#8220;I think you can take the president protecting the American people always extremely seriously. He&#8217;s been very clear that that&#8217;s his number one priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Press Sec. to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CeciliaVega?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CeciliaVega<\/a>: &#8220;I think you can take the president protecting the American people always extremely serious.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/QKdSacSgYr\">pic.twitter.com\/QKdSacSgYr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/916379755661815808?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>Earlier in the day, Trump continued the cryptic mystery: shortly after signing a manufacturing executive order, a reporter asked what he meant when he said that a gathering of military leaders at the White House the evening before was &#8220;the calm before the storm,&#8221; U.S. President Donald Trump did not elaborate, and said again, &#8220;You&#8217;ll find out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then he winked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;You&#8217;ll find out,&#8221; Pres. Trump says with a wink when reporter asks what he meant by &#8220;calm before the storm&#8221; comments <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/T5uqoA85rO\">http:\/\/t.co\/T5uqoA85rO<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FzCGW3yChN\">pic.twitter.com\/FzCGW3yChN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/916369478006525952?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>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-06\/white-house-says-trumps-storm-extremely-serious\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-10-06\/white-house-says-trumps-storm-extremely-serious<\/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-85877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85877","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=85877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}