President Donald Trump played it cool — and a bit cryptic — when asked a pressing question about the Middle East on Wednesday.
A well-dressed Trump and First Lady Melania were headed to the Kennedy Center to watch “Les Misérables,” according to The New York Times.
On that trek, however, Trump was asked about a pending evacuation of nonessential personnel from American embassies in the Middle East.
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The official line, per the Associated Press, is that personnel are being evacuated “due to the potential for regional unrest.”
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad is the primary one affected.
“The embassy already had been on limited staffing, and the order will not affect a large number of personnel,” the AP noted.
However, nonessential embassy staff in Bahrain
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