'Fox & Friends' host rips Trump over border 'chaos' and 'irresponsible' Syria withdrawal
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Ordinarily, Fox and Friends may be a political haven for President Trump, but on Thursday co-host Brian Kilmeade took an unusual double-barrel shot at him. After news broke that Trump defied his advisers and decided to pull 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria arguing on Twitter that we have defeated ISIS in that country Kilmeade slammed the presidents actions, calling them totally irresponsible.
The co-host said that in a stunning and, I think, irresponsible move Trump has blindsided Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and national security adviser John Bolton, as well as the State Department, which Trump said is now packing their bags.
Why have advisers? Kilmeade said, throwing up his hands.
Kilmeade also pushed back against Trumps tweet, claiming that the Islamic State, which has unleashed devastation across Iraq and Syria, had been defeated. Nobody thinks ISIS is defeated, Kilmeade said.
Just moments earlier on Fox and Friends, Kilmeade had expressed skepticism about the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border. When guest co-host Ed Henry made a claim that the border is more secure than it was under the Obama administration, Kilmeade resisted, saying: I dont know. I dont know. It seems like chaos.