Conservative Republican hawk John Bolton is out of the Trump White House. Oh, say it ain’t so!
Politics
After daring to tell ‘The Donald’ that inviting the Taliban terrorist group to the US for a private Camp David meeting, John Bolton was (not surprisingly) given his walking papers on Tuesday.
“John Bolton’s priorities and policies just don’t line up with the President’s and any sitting president has the right to put someone in that position that can carry out his agenda. That became no longer tenable so the President made a change,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley announced to reporters on Tuesday.
Although that’s the official explanation, the simple translation is this: Donald Trump doesn’t like being told that he’s wrong. Ever! In fact, after using a sharpie to redraw a weather map just to prevent himself from looking stupid and to bolster the lie that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama, Trump ordered Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to fire any National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employee who publicly disagreed with his make-believe map.
The departure of John Bolton has elevated deputy NSA Charles Kupperman to the post of acting national security adviser.
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I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2019
….I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2019
Bolton’s kick to the curb is only the latest in a string of Donald Trump “falling-in-then-out-of-love” moments with his appointees. In just over 2 and a half years, Trump has already had 3 national security advisers — Michael Flynn, H.R. McMaster, and John Bolton. However, that’s only the beginning of his hiring failures.
In February of 2017, Trump hired Rex Tillerson to be his secretary of state. A year later, Trump fired Tillerson via a tweet.
In December of 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis resigned over Trump’s ill-advised decision to pull out of Syria.
Trump saw the comings then goings of Homeland Security secretaries John Kelly and Kirstjen Nielsen, as well as National Security Agency director, Mike Rogers. He also lost Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, as well as his deputy, Sue Gordon.
For a man who once claimed that he and he alone had the wherewithal to hire “only the best people,” Donald Trump’s revolving door at The White House has once again proven to be an unmitigated disaster.
For a man who once claimed that he and he alone had the wherewithal to hire “only the best people,” Donald Trump’s revolving door at The White House has once again proven to be an unmitigated disaster. [..]- DJ
DJ, my friend, there you go again being much too kind. Trump, himself, has, time and again, proven to be “an unmitigated disaster.” I have just never seen anyone like this guy. Never.