Might Now Be The Moment For A Gathering Of Former Presidents With The Current President?

What has and continues during these last days is not about answering a moment, it’s about answering a series of moments. 

There is no one question and there is no one answer to those who protest, march, vandalize and harm in towns and cities during the last weeks. There are questions and there are answers.  

The nation and the leadership of the nation have thus far not identified the questions and the answers in an effective manner. 

Is now the moment for President Trump to invite his predecessors to The White House? President Barack Obama, President George Bush, President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter. 

Might the nation benefit from the optics of those who have occupied the Oval Office sharing a private lunch, providing a photo opportunity, and issuing a joint statement? Yes.  

There will be those who will view the moment as forced, scripted, inauthentic, a sham, all of which might well be accurate. But, focusing upon the production of the moment would be missing the point of the interaction.  

The focus, the point, is five men, including the first African-American, who have led collectively the United States for thirty-two (32) years will put aside their disagreements with the current occupant of the Oval Office- and their collective issues with one another. They will do so because the nation needs a good optic- one that is unexpected, one that is means something because there are so many reasons for many to believe it could never happen. 

The presidents would not answer questions- just stand together, President Trump in the middle with two predecessors on either side of him. The White House photographer would publish the image.  

Is now the moment for First Lady Melania Trump to invite her predecessors to The White House? Mrs. Michelle Obama, Mrs. Laura Bush, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. A private luncheon in the residence hosted by the First Lady. Afterwards, a group statement is issued.