Trump pauses address to take swigs of water
US President Donald Trump had his own water bottle moment. Trump, fresh from his marathon trip to Asia, paused during his address to the nation on Wednesday to take a swig of water — twice. Offering a blow-by-blow account of his five-nation tour, the president took a brief break to reach for a bottle of water as he recounted Japanese companies’ billion-dollar investments and jobs in the U.S.
At first, he couldn’t find any in his presidential lectern. “They don’t have waterIJ That’s OK,” he said. When he was informed it was sitting on a small table to his right, the president unscrewed the cap, took a drink and then resumed his speech. He took another swig later in the speech. Trump’s water break drew instant comparisons to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2013 speech after then-President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Giving the Republican response, Rubio lunged for a drink of bottled water during the televised address — all while keeping his gaze on the camera — and later laughed it off as a case of dry mouth.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump frequently skewered Rubio, his one-time GOP rival, for needing to quench his thirst during speeches.
“When they put Marco on to refute President Obama’s speech, do you remember that catastropheIJ” Trump asked a campaign crowd in Fort Worth, Texas, in February 2016. Trump mocked Rubio, saying, “He’s like this: ‘I need water. Help me, I need water,’” Trump said, pretending to stagger on stage. “This is on live television. This total choke artist,” Trump said at the time, holding up a bottle of water, saying, “It’s Rubio.” Trump splashed the water around before tossing the bottle behind him on stage. “Unbelievable,” Trump said in 2016. For Rubio, it was all water under the bridge. The senator joked after the president’s speech that Trump needs to work on his form.
Retweeting video of the episode, Rubio wrote on Twitter, “Similar, but needs work on his form. Has to be done in one single motion & eyes should never leave the camera. But not bad for his 1st time.”
Dry mouth or not, the president may have violated his own advice on water breaks. When Rubio needed water during his 2013 speech, Trump tweeted, “Next time Marco Rubio should drink his water from a glass as opposed to a bottle_would have much less negative impact.” Trump’s source of water in the White House Diplomatic Reception RoomIJ A bottle of Fiji.
(AP)
$1,300 worth of sephora makeup destroyed by child
A customer at a Sephora makeup store in Georgia snapped photos of what she said was $1,300 worth of makeup destroyed by a small child. Brittany Nelson posted photos to her Extraordinary life Makeup Artistry page on Facebook showing a display at the Augusta store that had been smeared and destroyed by what she said was a young child.
“PSA: $1300 of Make Up Forever eye shadow destroyed at Sephora tonight due to a small child. I’m sure he/she thought they were like finger paints and had no idea how naughty they were being. Tons of destroyed product and pissed Sephora cast members are a not a happy place to be,” Nelson wrote.
She said she did not see the incident happen, but she caught a glimpse of the likely suspect. “We walked in right as a lady and her kid were hustling out of there,” Nelson told website Insider. “The glittery footprints helped us decipher it was a tiny human.” Nelson’s post, which went viral on the social media site, encouraged mothers to leave their “tiny humans” at home when shopping for makeup. Nelson told Insider her post was “not mom-shaming or kid hating in the least,” despite the reactions of some commenters. “I woke up to the internet mob of insanity because of my one cranky post,” she said. “I honestly don’t think I said anything 99% of people don’t think anyway so I’m not that devastated by the hurricane of it.”
(UPI)
don’t play bagpipes while driving!
New Zealand police pulled over a man this week because he was driving while playing the bagpipes. “The driver didn’t have their hands on the wheel at the time, and he was clearly playing the instrument while driving the car,” Acting Sergeant Bryce Johnson said, according to the New Zealand Herald.”His fingers were going a million miles an hour,” Johnson added, according to Stuff.co.nz.
However, the driver denied the allegations and said he was only playing the air bagpipes. But Johnson said that he was certain he saw “a black-type instrument, which looked like a clarinet.” The driver was let off without a warning. Johnson said police were on the lookout for people driving while using their mobile phones. “We are also concerned with the amount of drivers using mobile phones while driving,” he said. “Neither of these things are a good idea.”
(UPI)