Trump Berates Former General for Being Bad at Military Coups

[Galraedia]

I Alone Can Fix It, the new Donald Trump book by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, quotes Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley repeatedly likening his boss to Adolph Hitler, and recounting his belief that he needed to use his position in the military to prevent a coup.

Trump has released a statement denying the latter. Sort of:




The former president makes three main points in his rejoinder to Milley. First, he calls Milley a terrible hiring choice by Donald Trump, which is a claim Trump has made about many of his hires. In this instance, Trump takes the extra step and explains why he is so bad at hiring people: He only hired Milley because Milley was hated by another terrible Trump hire.

I have never managed a large organization, but I am pretty confident that hiring people to extremely high level positions out of spite is generally not a sound approach to talent acquisition. It’s also worth reiterating that hiring quality staff is an extremely important aspect of the president’s job, and Trump’s repeated boasts that he does this aspect the the job miserably seems almost like an admission of disqualification.

Read more: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/trump-berates-former-general-for-being-bad-at-military-coups.html

[bullwinkle428]

1. JFC. This mofo is going to put "The Onion" writers out of business!

[bahboo]

5. I know....saw the post and immediately looked for...

Onion or Borowitz references...

[dewsgirl]

9. I seriously fall for the Onion, almost every time for the past few years.

🤦

[Warped_and_Wefty]

12. Same here.....

TFG's behavior is so over top or freakish almost nothing seems impossible.

[tulipsandroses]

2. He sure loves comparing people to dogs. What is his deal with dogs?? Did he have one that ran away?

Hope he's eating lots of fried chicken and hamburgers, washed down with milkshakes

[dewsgirl]

4. He's a narcissist with absolutely zero empathy,

All dogs need to be kept far away from him. He is one of those people you read about hating dogs and abusing them when he can get away with it. He's just a very bad person.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. If Trump hadn't had a rich daddy, the Pig would be in prison now, after they found bodies...

in his backyard.

[dewsgirl]

8. And I have a feeling there are several, in the closet, in the ocean,

On Jeff Epstein's Island. I don't believe for a second there isn't at least a handful.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

19. Including Epstein himself.

[colorado_ufo]

17. I read somewhere that he is actually afraid of dogs.

He does not like animals and has never, to my reading, had a pet.

Loser.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

20. I can imagine animals not liking him instinctively.

[moonscape]

21. If I was a dog I'd bite him. n/t

[dewsgirl]

3. All of those Trump humpers can't possibly believe him.

It looks like the vast majority do, but I like to believe there's a few out there that don't.

[iemanja]

7. Was the church actually set fire?

Or is that just another Trump lie?

[Hekate]

11. They closed their doors due to the protests & I believe there was some fire or smoke damage...

If you recall, TFG brought in large numbers of uniformed troops from wherever he could get them: Bureau of Prisons was a big favorite, and a whole bunch with tactical uniforms and NO insignia. Then “his” troops over-reacted spectacularly as per his orders, causing injury and damage.

Can’t recall all the details now. Gods he is detestable.

I have to say this, though: at least George W. Bush never did that to me and a million others when we marched on Washington against his stupid war. Black helicopters, yes. Tear gas and abuse, no.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Obama fired Milley? When?

What a steaming pile of bullshit. Trump's little tirade is so far beyond pathetic, it isn't funny. It will never cease to boggle my mind that this whiny, stupid, petulant ninny was President for even a second, let alone four years.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Yes, it is bullshit. Obama got Mattis out, a few months early

because he was too much of a hawk on Iran:

It was also this Iran obsession that led Obama to force Mattis’ retirement back in January 2013. In the weeks before being told he would be replaced as Centcom commander, he requested a third aircraft carrier be added to the two regularly deployed in the Persian Gulf. His request was denied because, he was told, the carrier was needed in the Pacific. But Mattis was undeterred, not only arguing the point with national security adviser Tom Donilon but also taking actions in the Gulf the White House considered provocative. The back and forth got ugly: When confronted again by Donilon, one of Mattis’ senior aides told me, the Centcom commander snapped at him: “You’re not in the chain of command; I don’t take orders from you.”

So it was that, several weeks later, and without warning, Mattis was handed a note telling him he was being replaced. The president hadn’t even bothered to call him, one of the reasons the decision set off a mini-firestorm. Mattis defenders stepped up, pointing out that Obama would do well to heed the advice of a commander who was simply warning him about the consequences of sidling up to a country like Iran. Mattis’ dismissal also fed the resentment of the far right, where Obama’s removal of officers (like David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal) was characterized as a “purge.” Obama’s team, it was claimed, was more concerned with political correctness than with facing down America’s enemies.

Of course, there’s the opposing point of view: that Obama’s purge of Petraeus, McChrystal and Mattis was the result of their missteps, not his. Petraeus resigned as the result of an affair, made public while he was serving as Obama’s CIA director, in which he shared classified information with his girlfriend, while McChrystal was fired for failing to police the inappropriate pronouncements of his alcohol-fueled staff. Mattis, on the other hand, was forced out for what was close to insubordination: that is, while Trump notoriously claimed that Obama “reduced the Generals to rubble,” they mostly did it themselves. Or perhaps, in the Mattis case, Obama decided to reduce him to rubble because he feared that his Centcom commander wanted to do that to Tehran.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/james-mattis-iran-secretary-of-defense-214500/

It wasn't Milley at all. But Trump doesn't know what he's talking about, and clearly doesn't have anyone check his rants.

[Grins]

13. It's long past time for Mattis stand up.

Enough of Mattis’ not criticizing a president shit. I used to have some respect for him, but after his shitty book, and after the 06 January failed attempt of a Coup d’Etat - No more! Mad Dog needs to man up!

[robbob]

14. The whole article is worth a read

And the comments are fantastic as well.

[spanone]

15. hey don trump. go fuck yourself you mental midget.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

18. Has anyone seriously investigated any and all...

...cold cases involving shootings on 5th Avenue... seeing as how everything that comes out of tfg's mouth is a projection, maybe just a courtesy perusal would be in order...