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Jim Mattis, onetime secretary of defense for the Trump administration, described the former president as a madman in a circular room screaming, a new book reveals. The revelation was made by Tom Bossert, Donald Trumps homeland security adviser from 2017 to 2018, and published in The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis.
The new book, from journalists George Stephanopolous and Lisa Dickey, discusses the history of presidential crises since John F Kennedy and is set to be published next week. Mr Bossert told the authors that Mr Trump avoided situation room briefings because he didnt like having to go to the room and believed the generals should come to him, instead, according to a review by The Guardian.
I mean, you couldnt get Mattis into the White House, Mr Bossert said. Mr Mattis spent 43 years in the Marine Corps, and rose to commander at US Central Command before retiring in 2013 as a four-star general. He joined the Trump administration as defense secretary in 2017 but lasted only a year, resigning over the presidents decision to remove US forces from Syria.
According toThe Atlantic he told Mr Trump: Youre going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to ISIS. Im not going to do it. In 2020, Mr Mattis also penned a letter to The Atlantic denouncing Mr Trumps presidency. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people does not even pretend to try, Mr Mattis wrote.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-james-mattis-book-b2542560.html
Captain Zero
(6,911 posts)Book is out next week.
Compare what Mattis says to what the author of 'Art of the Deal' said:
(I may be paraphrasing)
"There are only two things you need to know about Donald Trump,
1. he knows nothing and
2. he does not work"
mopinko
(70,472 posts)these assholes saving it for a book just
😡🤬🤬🤬😡😡🤢🤮
MOMFUDSKI
(5,912 posts)smart guy. He is no better than Bob Woodward in waiting to put the truth in a book to make $$$. Patriot my ass.
I cannot stand these assholes acting like they're blowing the whistle, WAY TOO FUCKING LATE
mopinko
(70,472 posts)have a short trip to the remainder table.
keithbvadu2
(37,198 posts)Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".
"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/
mymomwasright
(308 posts)I don't agree with all his views, but he is not a MAGA and is a staunch defender of this country and the constitution.
malaise
(269,655 posts)😂😂