Don’t worry Mr President, it’s all about you
by digby
He can’t understand anything beyond his own experience so this is how they framed that notorious meeting at the Pentagon:
To be successful, Mattis and Tillerson decided they should use talking points and commentary with which they believed Trump would be most familiar: the role that the military, intelligence officers and diplomats play in making the world safe for American businesses, like The Trump Organization, to operate and expand abroad. American troops provide stability, diplomats push rule of law and anti-corruption measures and the intelligence community provides context and analysis that drive the first two, the briefers explained, according to the officials.
They should have offered the Trump Organization the mineral rights in Afghanistan. For all we know they did.
Even so, after that meeting ex-Exxon CEO Tillerson was so appalled that he called Trump a fucking moron. I’m going to guess this meeting wasn’t the first time he’d said it. In fact I’d love to hear the context for his remark. I’m guessing that someone said, “wow, do you think he understood what we were saying?” and Tillerson replied, “of course not, he’s a fucking moron.”
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