"Trump Hires John Bolton As New National Security Adviser, We Are All Going To Die"
Great article from Wonkette....
"In a Politico story about how Donald Trump’s decision to replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with ambulatory nuclear warhead John Bolton has screwed up plans for a wider cabinet shake-up, we get this insight into at least part of why McMaster just wasn’t working out for Trump:
[McMaster […] is an intensely focused intellectual whose detailed briefings, by all accounts, drove the president crazy. Trump took to mocking him openly in the Oval Office, asking other White House aides why McMaster was so serious.]
No doubt about it: John Bolton will definitely do a far better job of amusing the toddler president, because after all, Bolton was on Fox News, and he really loves him some war stuff. And by golly, Donald Trump loves anything that sounds tough, too, so it’s a perfect match, as long as you don’t mind getting into a few wars now and then.
Remember how Donald Trump the candidate swore up and down he’d been against the Iraq war from the beginning (oh, sure, there were the quotes of him saying he supported it, but that didn’t matter). That was for some reason a huge talking point that proved Trump was a far more dovish candidate than Hillary Clinton, who simply loved war all the time. Haha, now Trump has picked as his national security adviser one of the founding neoconservatives, a member of the Bush team who not only insisted that Saddam Hussein had huge stockpiles of WMDs, but was also a key player in slanting intelligence to support going to war. Hell, John Bolton may be the last person who still truly believes the “Axis of Evil” speech was true: he insists, with no evidence of course, that Iran has helped North Korea with its nuclear and missile programs. Boy oh boy, will Trump ever be surprised when he finds out he’s picked somebody who still thinks the Iraq war was simply a great idea.
It’s worth noting, too, that Trump is at least smart enough to recognize that Bolton could only be hired for a job that didn’t require Senate confirmation. Back in 2006, Bolton’s nomination to be US Ambassador to the UN was blocked by the Senate — and mostly by Republicans, at that (explain to your kids that a decade ago, there were still some Republicans who knew a crazy man when they saw one)."
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