Very simply he was not doing a good job
Now he’s called in Kissinger in hopes that that will make him look not-lunatic.
In his first in-person statement to the press since he fired now-former FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump did not mince words.
“Very simply he was not doing a good job,” Mr. Trump told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan Wednesday during a meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
If it’s so simply that he was not doing a good job, why did it take so long to fire him? If it’s so simply, why didn’t Trump fire him as soon as he took office? If it’s true that he was not doing a good job, why was Trump apparently unaware of it until yesterday? If it’s true that he was not doing a good job, why did Trump heap him with praise during the campaign?
Before this, the president had met privately with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Brennan was the pool reporter.
Mr. Trump added that the firing did not affect his meeting with Lavrov — the highest-ranking Russian official Mr. Trump has met with face-to-face — in any way.
How would he know? I don’t suppose Lavrov told him “Thank you, Mr President, for making it so clear to the entire world what a hopeless incompetent buffoon you are,” but we can be confident that’s what he was thinking.
Also… Kissinger?!
I know.
I so wish I could find a copy of the parody song about Kissinger that I read in a Mad Magazine sometime in the 1970s. It was to the tune of Gilbert&Sullivan’s “Buttercup”, and started out (best I can recall) something like “They call Henry Kissinger, me, Henry Kissinger, whenever something goes wrong”.
Apparently it’s from #150 (1972). You can find it on ebay, but I can’t find an image of the pages with the Buttercup song.
Well, there’s always the Monty Python song dedicated to him.
@Ben #4: Awesome search skills, and even if we can’t get the words, I appreciate knowing that my recollection was not just a false memory confabulation.
@Screechy #5 – That one is also amusing.
It all would be a lot funnier if it we didn’t keep being faced with the reality that what looks like absurdist sketch comedy is actually a government in direct control of so many people’s lives (and with indirect effects on so many more).
Saying that Comey had to go because he was not doing a good job is deliciously ironic coming from the master of incompetence.