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November 3, 20178:09 AM ET
BILL CHAPPELL
... "Let me tell you, the one that matters is me," Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox News on Thursday night. "I'm the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be. You've seen that, you've seen it strongly."
The president was responding to a question from Fox's Laura Ingraham, who asked him, "Are you worried that the State Department doesn't have enough Donald Trump nominees in there to push your vision through?"
Ingraham added, "other State Departments, including Reagan's, at times, undermined his agenda. And there is a concern that the State Department currently is undermining your agenda."
Trump said, "So, we don't need all the people that they want. You know, don't forget, I'm a businessperson. I tell my people, 'Where you don't need to fill slots, don't fill them.' But we have some people that I'm not happy with their thinking process" ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/561797675/im-the-only-one-that-matters-trump-says-of-state-dept-job-vacancies
maveric
(16,445 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,510 posts)In his mind he is the only one who matters.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)who, like many Republicans, conflates winning by any means (Russians, archaic racist vestiges of slaveholding Constitutional Electoral College system, gerrymandering, voter suppression, fraudulent electronic voting systems with no verifiable physical record, etc.) as a mandate of Messianic proportion.
"I alone..."
global1
(25,241 posts)He's delusional. He's a psychopath!!!!
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)Mueller can successfully take down Manafort, Flynn, Gates - and maybe even Kushner and Trump Jr. But in my mind, Trump himself is the only one who matters.