Je suis le département d’étatby digby
Trump received plaudits and compliments from Laura Ingraham last night in what they laughingly called an “interview”. Trump explained that he doesn’t need a stinking state department:
INGRAHAM: Your state department still has some unfilled positions. Are you worried that the state department doesn’t have enough Donald Trump nominees in there to push your vision through? Because other state departments, including Reagan’s at times, undermined agendas. There is a concern that the State Department is currently undermining your agenda.
TRUMP: So we don’t need all the people that they want. You know, don’t forget, I’m a business person and I tell my people, when you don’t need to fill slots, don’t fill them. But we have some people that I’m not happy with there.
INGRAHAM: But assistant secretary of state – you’re not getting rid of that position.
TRUMP: Let me tell you — the one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters. Because when it comes to it, that’s what the policy will be. You have seen that strongly.
Yes, we have seen that “strongly.”
Ingraham is just a self-aggrandizing opportunist lowering herself to new depths. He, of course, is a fucking moron.
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