The Post on Trump’s gruesome undermining of his own Secretary of State.
“Humiliating for Tillerson, but worse, renders him useless. He’ll resign, today or after a brief face-saving interval,” predicted former Obama administration ambassador and National Security Council official Dan Shapiro, one of many foreign policy experts who tweeted about Trump’s Sunday comments, sent from his New Jersey golf club.
So I went to look at Shapiro’s Twitter and that was valuable. I decided to look at all this as an interesting learning opportunity until the moment the nukes burst overhead. Might as well, right?
Later in the day Trump expanded on his point.
“Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won’t fail.”
Ah. Because he’s so much better at all this than Clinton and Obama.
Tillerson of course is a terrible secretary of state.
Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil chief executive with no previous diplomatic experience, has been under a broader cloud in office, with lawmakers and others criticizing the slow pace of diplomatic appointments, his acquiescence to massive budget cuts proposed by the White House, and the State Department’s lack of visibility on a number of issues.
Other than that…
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4 responses to “Trump says he won’t fail, doesn’t explain why”
The US is ablaze, there is a pyromaniac walking around in plain sight setting fire after fire, and all anyone is doing is handing out watering cans. Empty ones.
If he were anything other than a self-proclaimed billionaire and a white man, he wouldn’t have lasted two weeks in the job.
Being nice hasn’t worked? I’m pretty sure it has, since America is still around and he can complain about it.
“Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years”?! Kim Jong Un has only been in power for 6 years. Or does Trump figure all “Orientals” look are the same?
Sam, he probably thinks that Kim Jong-un and his forefathers, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, are all the same man, and the different given names are just titles. I very much doubt it even crosses his mind that family names come first in other parts of the world.