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‘You’re a bunch of dopes and babies’: Inside Trump’s stunning tirade against generals
Washington Compost ^ | Jan 17, 2020 | Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker

Posted on 01/17/2020 10:21:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

There is no more sacred room for military officers than 2E924 of the Pentagon, a windowless and secure vault where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to wrestle with classified matters. Its more common name is “the Tank.” The Tank resembles a small corporate boardroom, with a gleaming golden oak table, leather swivel armchairs and other mid-century stylings. Inside its walls, flag officers observe a reverence and decorum for the wrenching decisions that have been made there.

Hanging prominently on one of the walls is The Peacemakers, a painting that depicts an 1865 Civil War strategy session with President Abraham Lincoln and his three service chiefs — Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, and Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter. One hundred fifty-​­two years after Lincoln hatched plans to preserve the Union, President Trump’s advisers staged an intervention inside the Tank to try to preserve the world order....

Trump organized his unorthodox worldview under the simplistic banner of “America First,” but Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn feared his proposals were rash, barely considered, and a danger to America’s superpower standing. They also felt that many of Trump’s impulsive ideas stemmed from his lack of familiarity with U.S. history and, even, where countries were located. To have a useful discussion with him, the trio agreed, they had to create a basic knowledge, a shared language....

“You’re all losers,” Trump said. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: A Navy Vet

Daddy Bush got him out of war duty; he ended up in the Alabama National Guard where he couldn’t be troubled to attend monthly meetings. Mission Accomplished.


41 posted on 01/17/2020 10:44:12 AM PST by laconic
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
“You’re all losers,” Trump said. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”

Whether or not President Trump stated this, the quote itself is precisely correct.
42 posted on 01/17/2020 10:44:27 AM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Bob434

Nice collection of sayings.


43 posted on 01/17/2020 10:45:15 AM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Those two Washington Post reporters sure have specific and detailed knowledge of what went on at those Pentagon meetings. I guess they must have had seats at the table. Who knew that reporters had such access?

On the other hand, maybe they’re just making things up. After all, that’s the way the Post usually rolls.


44 posted on 01/17/2020 10:45:49 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Compost Fake News.


45 posted on 01/17/2020 10:46:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

To many chefs in the kitchen...actually, why should we keep most of you on our payroll?


46 posted on 01/17/2020 10:47:51 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This article is ridiculous on it’s face and the conversations are not the least bit believable.
I have to laugh at the audience that eats this drivel up.


47 posted on 01/17/2020 10:49:15 AM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The Post ascribes such delicate emotions among these fighting men. Did they shed their precious tears in boot camp when they get reamed out by their DI?

Or was the thought of the Commander in Chief rejecting their Inter-agency Consensus just too much to handle?

48 posted on 01/17/2020 10:49:30 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: PGR88

I’m not surprised. However, the one thing that’s true is Trump doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

He doesn’t care much for process. He wants results.

And if the status quo doesn’t work, he wants change fast. He will never back down or give in.


49 posted on 01/17/2020 10:49:42 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It strikes me that the people who write these articles have never had a job where the boss yells at people.


50 posted on 01/17/2020 10:50:23 AM PST by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: Inyo-Mono

I’ve got them on my profile page anytime you want to use them- feel free-


51 posted on 01/17/2020 10:50:58 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Jeff Chandler
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/22/trumps-band-my-generals-disbanding.html

Donald Trump apparently never knew that U.S. generals are almost universally politicians first and military figures last. And they're all globalists, too.

52 posted on 01/17/2020 10:51:42 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Williams
The president is not asking our soldiers to become soldiers of fortune or mercenaries to “make a buck”.

The flag officers seem to be asking our soldiers to become soldiers of fortune or mercenaries for free.

53 posted on 01/17/2020 10:51:55 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“How does the commander in chief say that?” one thought. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”

The duplicitous hypocrite “journalists’. They actually nod their collective heads in unison about the above quote, and then have no scruples about going out and printing it for all America’s enemies to read.


54 posted on 01/17/2020 10:52:10 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Personally, as far as the Middle East is concerned, take our troops out and give Israel a whole bunch of the best weapons we have. Let them take out the trash.

Maybe give them some top cover, but otherwise, it is their neighborhood, they can be the policeman.


55 posted on 01/17/2020 10:52:49 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: clarissaexplainsitall
It strikes me that the people who write these articles have never had a job where the boss yells at people.

Bingo.

These are people who grew up watching Star Trek TNG.

56 posted on 01/17/2020 10:54:59 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Reading the whole article it looks like the brass were trying to justify a post ww2 stasis, as though that is the only way to do it, and Trump shined a critical spotlight on it. Billions to install a missile defense and the Koreans aren’t paying for it?


57 posted on 01/17/2020 10:55:03 AM PST by lurk
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; dfwgator; BTerclinger
“You’re all losers,” Trump said. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”

Priceless!!!


58 posted on 01/17/2020 10:55:13 AM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: AAABEST

[[These scumbags really thought THEY owned our foreign policy.]]

Which they wanted to hand control of over to the UN


59 posted on 01/17/2020 10:55:47 AM PST by Bob434
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To: clarissaexplainsitall

Trump is the boss. Either shut up, get the hell out of his way or do as you’re told.

Its that simple. You don’t talk back to Donald Trump.


60 posted on 01/17/2020 10:55:57 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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