Donald Trump has so many other things he could be focusing on as President of the United States, but instead he’s choosing to focus on something that he has no power to change and is particularly petty for someone in his position to be spending all of his energy on.
Apparently, the president is ruminating over the resignation letter of Defense Secretary James Mattis, who announced that he was officially resigning in a big “f*ck you” to Trump and the dysfunctional administration. In his resignation letter, Mattis refused to send any compliments or kind words to Trump and clearly pointed out that he has very different value systems and foreign policy views from his now former boss. In particular, Mattis stated that he was in support of nurturing alliances with other countries and opposing authoritarian governments like Russia and China. Trump, as we all know, feels differently.
The most interesting thing about all this is what Trump is latching on to. While the president obviously hated the letter because it deeply insulted him, the former reality television star is most upset because it got so much positive coverage. Once again, Trump cares more about ratings than anything else in the world. CNN’s Jim Acosta stated that a source close to the White House told him:
He hates that letter. But he ‘hates the coverage even more,’ because he does not like this conventional wisdom, and we heard it all last night after the defense secretary’s letter was read publicly on the air, that essentially Jim Mattis — as well as other long-serving members of this administration, people who have been in Washington a long time, people like Chief of Staff John Kelly and so on — that they were sort of the ‘adults in the room’ along with Jim Mattis who were there to keep the president from going overboard. To be a check on his impulses.”
And so the president, once again, irritated by this notion here in Washington that he is sometimes in need of adult daycare.”
You can watch the segment below:
“I’m told by a source close to the White House, an adviser who advises the President occasionally, that he hates that letter,” @Acosta reports on Trump’s reaction to James Mattis’ resignation letter. https://t.co/oXilF0vV9h pic.twitter.com/ftxUGono9v
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) December 21, 2018
It’s a shame that Trump continues to be more infuriated by how he appears in the media than the actual difficulties this country is facing.
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