Posted on 01/02/2019 11:56:25 AM PST by detective
President Trump denounced former Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday, saying at a cabinet meeting he "essentially" fired the former Marine Corps general from the top Pentagon post.
"What's he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good," Trump said, according to a Bloomberg News journalist, who reported a quote relayed by a colleague in the room.
"As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I," Trump said at the meeting, attended by Mattis' replacement, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
He was kind of a Democrat, wanted trannies in uniform.
“by the end of the year Trump will be fondling steel ball-bearings and mumbling about missing strawberries...”
It sounds like you didn’t understand the movie The Caine Mutiny or Humphrey Bogart’s performance.
You certainly do not understand President Trump and what he has accomplished despite being continually sabotaged.
Mattis exposed himself with his anti-Trump exit - buh bye.
In your dreams...
The Pentagon has publicly identified climate change as a real threat to national security. LOL!
The mightiest army in the world should be able to walk all over a puny country like Afghanistan
Mattis was given 6 months to get a job done, and didn’t do it.
How long should Trump wait?
If it is true, who cares? Mattis essentially outed himself as a war-for-life government progressive with his temper tantrum of a resignation letter. There is NOTHING to “win” for us in Syria. Absolutely nothing. Both sides hate us. Let them kill each other. As for Afghanistan? It’s still a feudal mess. There’s nothing that us being there can accomplish that it didn’t already in the 18 (yes, eighteen) years we’ve already been there.
Some question the hires of The Donald. Yes, many should not have happened but also when he does let one go we normally find out their deep swamp connections and that’s one more way of exposing the cabal...
I don’t believe in berating the hired help.
Some people are best forgotten.
Others should be thanked for giving things a good try.
Mattis is certainly the latter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis
And let’s not forget that he hired him and praised him to the hilt then.
Let’s face it, as much as we like him, we have to admit that Trump’s early appointments have been disasters. His more recent ones seem somewhat better. Selecting his team has been the weakest aspect of his job and has cost him dearly.
Insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different outcome. The pentagon has been horrible at the war in Afghanistan. They started that war on a promising and creative foot with the SF on horseback. We never bothered to locat and promote a kcal tribal leader to take the place of the much loved Masood. Instead we tried to launch a conventional war in a country that “conventional” was bound to bog down and lose.
I agree. This whole thing blew up when Trump correctly decided to get out of Syria. Obama already negotiated away all of our advantages and made it so that Trump would inherit a turd, getting out is the right thing.
Next step: announce that we’re getting out of Afghanistan, now that is one worthless conflict. Our job was done when we got bin Laden. For any posters that have flamed me over that, I’ve challenged them to tell me in 100 words or less what we’re doing there and why we should continue. I’m always met with crickets on that one.
“using troops to defend our own border.”
DC is not prepared to recognize that 21st Century invaders come bearing children and not guns.
As soon as McCain and his daughter came out in gushing support of Mattis, that he was a globalist weasel.
Good job, POTUS. Keep on exposing those little pieces of rat excrement!
Let’s be reasonable, I think we’ve done a lot in Afghanistan, but for how many decades should we fight a war in Afghanistan, it’s not central to our security. Same goes for being in some Syrian provinces, not even fighting for a friendly government there.
POTUS is replying to Democrat Dog Mattis undermining and kicking more dirt on him as he left the Pentagon last week.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hold-fast-mattis-bids-farewell-pentagon-153201158.html
>>As soon as McCain and his daughter came out in gushing support of Mattis, that he was a globalist weasel.
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As soon as McCain and his daughter came out in gushing support of Mattis, I KNEW that he was a globalist weasel.
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