Posted on 06/16/2017 6:08:47 PM PDT by ColdOne
In Miami, the crowd was standing and cheering Friday as President Trump smiled broadly after pledging to reverse key provisions of the Obama administration’s historic Cuba opening.
A world away, in Portland, Maine, Ben Rhodes could not contain his frustration.
“The few people in Miami enabling Trump in carrying out this charade should be embarrassed/held accountable,” Rhodes wrote on Twitter. “He could care less about Cubans.”
It was the first of four tweets Rhodes, a foreign policy aide to former president Barack Obama, fired off attacking Trump as the president was speaking. Rhodes was in Maine to attend the wedding of a fellow Obama alum, speechwriter Jon Favreau, but that had not stopped him from fighting back against Trump. In the morning, Rhodes had published an essay on The Atlantic’s website titled, “Trump’s Cuba Policy Will Fail.”
For Rhodes, the moment represented both a policy setback for the United States — and a personal letdown. He had played a leading role in the secret, high-wire negotiations with the Castro regime that led to the restoration of diplomatic ties in 2015 after 54 years. That role was so meaningful that it is highlighted in Rhodes’ Twitter bio: “Obama foreign policy adviser and speechwriter. Mets fan, Cuba negotiator, dad to Ella and Chloe.”
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Trump Cuba policy as Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton.
His brother, David Rhodes, is the president of CBS news. He seems to me to be the typical clueless New Yorker who doesn’t realize that Manhattan is a false reality that has limited relevance to the rest of the world.
President Obama has his Noble prize as a legacy. “An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold”.
Rhodes should be tried and executed for treason re Iran, Iraq, Cuba, etc.
What a POS this fool is. Guess that’s why Obama hired him. Traitorous minds think alike.
Hey Ben, GITMO’s got your cot all ready for you.
How many of Bush’s executive orders did ObamaHope4Dope repeal when he took office?
Such a little drama queen.
Oh,it hurts? Let me twist that dagger another half turn!
Yes, Obama truly cared greatly about Cubans, as evidenced when he passed a visa travel ban against Cubans in January 2017. Ahem.
I see 4 people in that photo that should already be indicted
If only it was a literal one.
A hell of a lot of us out here certainly hated the Kenyan and his policies but we didn’t go out and kill, and destroy.
Those that do should be put in prison for a very long time.
F*ck off, Bennie ...
Ben, Ben, Ben The USA now has a chance to be what it once was “Great” now that your idol is out of the White House. Why is so difficult for people to aspire to greatness? Would it make many of your type feel better if the USA became another 3rd world $hithole?
Ben, Ben, Ben The USA now has a chance to be what it once was “Great” now that your idol is out of the White House. Why is so difficult for people to aspire to greatness? Would it make many of your type feel better if the USA became another 3rd world $hithole?
I looked up Jon Favreau’s wedding, figuring he must have married a guy. Not so, but his father-in-law (the judge who performed the ceremony) is famous for the Obergefell gay-marriage ruling. These people need to have a country of their own someplace.
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