Trump No Longer Listens to His Defense Secretary

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/25/trump-no-longer-listens-to-his-defense-secretary/

Trump No Longer Listens to His Defense Secretary
June 25, 2018 at 6:13 am EDT
By Taegan Goddard

NBC News: “The way these recent presidential decisions on major national security issues have played out, as detailed by current and former White House and defense officials, underscores a significant change in Mattis’s role in recent months. The president is relying less and less on the advice of one of the longest-serving members of his cabinet, the officials said.”

Said a former senior White House official: “They don’t really see eye to eye.”

“The president has cooled on Mattis, in part because he’s come to believe his defense secretary looks down on him and slow-walks his policy directives… The president is now more inclined to rely on his own instincts or the advice of Pompeo and Bolton.”

[JI7]

1. he has never listened to him . and the person he listens to most is Putin

[FarPoint]

2. tRump is the first American Dictator...

Campaigns constantly to his greatness, spews hate for existing laws. This man is not a President of a Democracy but now a Dictator.. He appointed incompetent administration positions so he can dominant.

[joshdawg]

3. He's still trying to run the country

like a business. Only wants flunkies at his side.
And the cowardly republicans are all sitting on their hands and not doing a damn thing about him.
It really must suck to be a republican.

[3Hotdogs]

4. WHO CARES? As long as we get our new Space Force -- I'm applying for officer's rank of Lt. Colonel

I'm more than qualified. I used to watch "Captain Video," Flash Gordon" and "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet."

[PearliePoo2]

5. He's never listened to anyone. He's never planned for anything.

He admits that he would go to his office each morning with no agenda or plan for the day.

He'd make and receive phone calls and just see what happened. He goes with his gut (he has the BEST gut!).

Remember, he bragged about being a stable genius!

Now he wants to get rid of the judges, the courts and the rule of law.

We are SO screwed.

[struggle4progress]

7. +

[Javaman]

6. just finished reading hitlers bio...

hitler was exactly like this. he had this delusion of being "chosen" if you will. that only he had the insight and knowledge that others lacked. that he was a genius. he surrounded himself with halfwits and sycophants and thought them all loyal, yet when things started turning south for him, he would sack (kill) people left and right as conspirators and incompetents (sure they were incompetent, but they were always that way) and would assume more and more power.

and of his generals who cautioned him early on in the war, they were all eventually replaced and killed. because they lacked his kind of "vision".

in the end, as he always did, he blamed everyone, especially the Jews, for all his failures and losses rather than his own blatant incompetence.