Trump Screamed At Pentagon Leaders And Told Them They Were ‘Dopes’ And ‘Babies’
Trump Screamed At Pentagon Leaders And Told Them They Were ‘Dopes’ And ‘Babies’
It didn’t end there; According to Leonnig and Rucker, Trump became so angry that “he wasn’t taking many breaths” and bellowed to the commanders in a fit of rage, “I wouldn’t go to war with you people.”
“You’re a bunch of dopes and babies,” he shouted.
Everyone in the room was shocked.
“How does the commander in chief say that?” one participant thought, according to the Post. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”
President Donald Trump repeatedly berated U.S. military leaders while throwing a massive fit during a Pentagon meeting in 2017, according to “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” a book penned by Washington Post reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
An excerpt from the book describes how Trump’s meeting with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. and flag officials on July 20, 2017 (arranged by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and then-National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn) went completely off the rails.
The temper tantrum began when Trump started complaining about the “loser war” in Afghanistan and demanded to know “where is the fucking oil” that he felt the U.S. deserved for its military presence in the Persian Gulf.
“You’re all losers,” he told them. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”
It didn’t end there; According to Leonnig and Rucker, Trump became so angry that “he wasn’t taking many breaths” and bellowed to the commanders in a fit of rage, “I wouldn’t go to war with you people.”
“You’re a bunch of dopes and babies,” he shouted.
Everyone in the room was shocked.
“How does the commander in chief say that?” one participant thought, according to the Post. “What would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?”
Trump’s attack was apparently Tillerson’s breaking point.
“No, that’s just wrong,” he said to Trump. “Mr. President, you’re totally wrong. None of that is true.”
The secretary of state asserted that those who join the military “don’t do it to become soldiers of fortune.”
“That’s not why they put on a uniform and go out and die,” he said. “They do it to protect our freedom.”
In a private conversation with Cohn and Mattis right after the meeting, Tillerson let loose and made the infamous comment about Trump that would get leaked to the press a few months later.
“He’s a fucking moron,” the secretary of state said.
I would be embarrassed to be a Trump supporter.
What are these people thinking?
Talking Points Memo? Really? What a joke of a source. Lol!
The source is the new book "A Very Stable Genius" by two Washington Post reporters. I seriously doubt they are making this up.
We are far beyond anyone here thinking you have any ability to recognize the truth about Trump.
Doncha know EVERYONE ELSE is lying but Crooked donnie...he's as pure as the driven snow.
That tells us all we need to know John, that publication is not know for printing the truth.
Oh please, like Obama supporters didn't put up with the same shit for 8 years?
Too many conspiracies to remember.
If Obama had walked on water, the opposition claimed he was unfit for office because he couldn't swim.
Better use something to toughen up that skin if you expect 5 more years of this my friend.
If they were making stuff up tRump would sue them
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WTF?
At least!
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That is juvenile. Too bad people do not use social forums to primarily exchange ideas, debate, and other positive pursuits. Contributing so as to 'tick people off' is the very definition of trolling.
That's very sad. There's more to life than internet forums. Ya gotta get out more !
has to be the funniest thing I've read yet... LOL
So a talking points BOOK.
I will be for the next two days. House cleaning and 49ers game Sunday and job hunting/paperwork for me and my son Monday. His first ever and my second post college, since mine up and folded here after 33 + years of service.
Pretty much. Trump will win re election and we get to celebrate 🎉 him being our President for four more years.
I really do want Trump re elected for four more years for a whole bunch of positive reasons. What’s wrong with saying so?
Wow. Sorry to hear that. Much as we disagree and argue I don't ill-wish you or anyone.
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Some here would rather see this country implode and dissolve thanks to Trump just so they can write or read a seed.
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R-I-g-h-t. Like no business ever has folded during good or even great economic times.
/s
But the economy is booming doncha know, all due to crooked donnie's tax cuts doncha know
Actually, the economy is doing just fine.
I know how many Democrats don't believe that, but the actual numbers are there for folks to look at.
All that requires is just a little actual effort, at least a partially open mind, and someone to explain it.
Guess it's not that fine if a business closed
But Crooked donnie's tax cuts are working so well that no businesses are closing.
But the US is saved by crooked donnie's the messiah tax cuts and everyone has a job and makes good money, so it has to be false that a business is closing.
You just admitted that crooked donnie's tax cuts are a sham
No, what he did was make an observation that most adults can easily make on their own--that the economy is doing pretty good, and that some businesses close even in good economic times, despite what Democrats may say or think. That is just a cold, hard fact, and pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
Do you have the videos, tapes, and unredacted transcripts?
Otherwise, this has to be considered to be fake news. I know for a fact that his election opponent used to yell at and berate people all the time/,
particularly the military members of her entourage
Oh...and you were a member of her entourage? Or are you going on hearsay?
Hearsay is just fine when it puts a liberal in a bad light. When it makes Trump look bad, it doesn't count. Haven't you figured that out yet?
The dimwits never ask for transcripts and tapes when the hearsay says what they want to believe.
No offense, dear, but it will be much faster to list the times when Trump hasn't called someone, or a whole collection of someone's, loser/ugly/fat/shit pile/dogface/untalented/bleeding bitch/lowlife/human scum/... blablablablabla. For crying out loud, he couldn't swing his dead comb-over without spreading cooties to someone he has called 'loser'. No man, woman, or child is exempt from his idiocy. And those unredacted transcripts? Why bother with those when we have Twitter?
...unless now you don't believe in whistlers.
She dosen't look embarrassed
She was waiving a friendly hello to Nancy Pelosi
She deserves to get "grabbed" as she has no respect for herself as a woman.
I would say she loves her country and has taken a stand. You don't like strong women? Why the vile comment?
I am betting that more than one of his supporters who are parents look the other way when their kid(s) bully others.
He's a disgusting POS who denigrates the office of the presidency on a daily basis.
He's a bully and a liar and his supporters will defend anything and everything this POS does. Sad, really sad.
Prove it.
Where the FUCK does he get the balls to call these military leaders dopes and babies?
He was too goddamned cowardly to do his part in Vietnam and got a phony doctor's note to get him out of going.
This guy is a total disaster!
I wish one of those generals or admirals had brought this up at the time. I think it would have been very helpful to show Trump in his true light.
Sometimes these top military people are too loyal to the "chain of command".
Because in the grand scheme it was a meaningless rant then and just a libbie whine today. Good to see you've moved beyond Stormy Daniels.
That's the way it works in our form of government.
You go ahead and swing that bat, Ms. Giggles. I've got your back all day long!
Thanks, Sister
Prove the authenticity.
She said it was a phony diagnosis - you claim it was real. One of you is bitching about Trump for the fun of it.
If I were still in the Army, I would risk an article 15 rather than acknowledge him as my CIC.
With any other PotUS I would dismiss this as bullshit. With Trump, I can actually imagine him doing this.
All these generals want to do is kill people and break things. They, along the industrial establishment, want us continually being at war.
Time to bring ALL the troops home from these terroristic Middle East countries.
I do not see how that applies to what I wrote. After all, Trump ostensibly carried on as follows:
Does not sound like Trump is concerned at all about killing people, but rather about securing the spoils.
Wow, Trump has his worshippers really hating our country, our military, and our intelligence community.
I'm starting to wonder if his worshippers have toilet paper with the Constitution printed on it.
Won't happen unless the oil dries up.
Are you familiar with the term "hyperbole" ?
indeed.
Oil at the expense of lives is becoming the new blood diamonds.
Trump throws it to them during his rally's.
And the WaPo reporters are quite happy to make sure that they do.
Well, you know hatred of Trump beyond everything else, including US security.
They were quoting a freaking book. I hardly think it would have stayed a secret if they hadn't reported on it.
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It happened 2 1/2 freaking years ago. July of 2017. 6 months on the job and his "underlings" were being chastised for not coming up with a way to escalate and end the shit. And the book they were quoting THEY FREAKING WROTE! That being the case and they being from WaPo, it is amazing that it wasn't out there already.
Bullfreakingshit
Jim - if it happened 30 seconds after he was born, to them, it's pertinent regardless as to whether he had anything to do with it or not.
The article is by Christina Cabrera who wrote about the book by the 2 WAPO people.
The same way that people wrote books about Clinton waffling about assassinating Bin Laden when we had a decent chance
back when collateral damage was actually worried about. The same way that people wrote books about Obama.
Sure he did, to a point. Starting in 2016 they published every drone strike target and reported causalities.
By March of 2019 Trump canceled the civilian casualty report.
By that time, Obama had ordered 1878 drone strikes in 8 years.
Trump was up to 2,243 in just over 2 years and the collateral damage was embarrassing.
I am still waiting for Trump to demand that Al Gore tell everyone that it was Trump who invented the internet instead of him.
Even if it is as fake as a unicorn.
Well when you can skip the gratuitous profanity laced derogatory comments about all within a category and the off topic colorful "examples",
maybe you can contribute to an article instead of disrupting it.
Just a thought.
Who are you addressing?
Loki.
I don't know why it posted like that, NT gremlins, ?
Not sure if you were talking to me, but I washed my mouth out with soap, you know... just in case.
You're a good egg SMAAB
I just take another shot of Patron when there is even a chance I misspoke.
I hope you used Lava.
This too. Putin is making moves to solidify his hold on power and the longevity of that hold. Is Trump watching this?
Trump denigrates everybody and everything in our US government. This is a strategy. Will it work? For some, it does work.
Donny spent three years running our intel agencies into the ground and calling them biased, losers, etc.. then he uses their intel to kill whatshisnuts in Iran. Trump is all about spin and he prays that everyone on the planet has forgotten what he has said in the past. Maybe someone should tell grandpa that we now have ability to record audio and video. It never ends with trump......he's just plain childish.
It is like when he denies climate change but wanted money from Scotland to build a sea wall to protect his golf course siting it is justified due to global warming.
You can stop right there. He is a known draft dodger, has degraded the military and military personnel in the past, and as such anything he has to say about the courage, honor, or service of ANY member of the armed forces is beyond meaningless. Fuck that piece of shit.
The guy who presented Trump with a copy of a purple heart needs a trip to the woodshed.
And once again, donny attacks our men and women in uniform. Shameful that people in uniform on the right still support Draft Dodger Donny.
I have always considered all military member as part of my extended family. But any member past or present who supports a draft dodger as CIC no longer are members of that family.
That's a lot of members of the military who supported Bill Clinton as President...
I was unaware that Clinton dodged the draft 5 times or even once.
just be honest. You believe it’s okay for Bill Clinton to have dodged the draft because he’s a democrat. No one thinks you would be defending Trump If the Clinton and trump backstories were reversed.
And then - there's Barry Obama, who also dodged - but, then again - he's a Dem.
The draft ended in 1973. Obama was 12. Seriously?
Correction. He was 11, as the draft ended in January, and his birthday is in August.
You mean like Bill Clinton...who "loathed" the military and fled to Oxford?
Trump's deferments were up to the military doctors, and he had nothing to do with it.
Yeah...seriously. Some people don't think before they start pounding on the keyboard
The only thing he was dodging at age 11 was the ball in a dodge ball game.
Was once a government employ but spent many years as a civilian paramedic and a club bouncer in a city with a VA and a couple of fed mental hospitals. These guys became my problem when they came to my clubs and my streets with PTSD.
Our government trains children to kill for a living but could do a lot more for those with PTSD.
Maybe Trump could just slap them like Patton did.
Actually I don't have too much of a problem with Philip Rucker or Carol Leonnig of the Washington Post and co-authors of “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America”. They are both Liberals and work for the Washington Post, a Liberal rag. I wouldn't expect either of them .to be promoting Donald Trump in any way. I would expect them to exaggerate anything Trump did in a negative manner.
That being said,
Carol Leonnig was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The Post team's prize was for reporting that revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans .
Now, let's see how the so-called journalists handled that one. Here's a man who spied on everyone from NYT, Fox News to Angela Merkel, not to mention the Trump campaign and who knows how many other Americans. And don't forget how Obama was always the last to know, with the "Not even a Smidgen of corruption" comment, but very few media sources really gave him any grief for any of it.
Now can you imagine how the media would have reacted if it had been Trump in that video instead of Obama? Every MSM source would be putting articles out and every MSM station would be interviewing comrades for their agenda for days on end. And it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't the Obama Administration who actually recorded that video instead of the media, as I've read where they have been known to prepare their own videos.
My point is it is completely expected those two Washington Post employees would write a book with any criticism they could about Trump. It's their job and it is expected of them to do so, otherwise the Left will turn on them like a raging bull, kind of like they did to Ellen Degeneres when she sat with George Bush at a Dallas Cowboy's game. They remind me of the "Religion of Peace" for being so tolerant as they are.
And it wouldn't surprise me if Trump did say something along the lines of the accusation quoted in the book. I doubt he screamed. I've never heard him scream, but he can be pretty aggressive in tone. And I wouldn't be surprised that he was tired of an 18 year old war.that has cost us a trillion dollars, or has it been two trillion and we haven't gotten any closer to peace than we've ever been until maybe now. And I doubt it, even at this point in time. Yea, he could have been burned out on Afghanistan as many of us are. Trump expects action, not a never ending war.
Obama doesn't even realize, in the video above, he completely gives himself away. And what's even funnier is the fellow interviewing him doesn't seem to have a clue, either, but I bet some here will pick it out. It pertains to the NSA, FBI, CIA and all the other agencies during his whole Presidency. He tells you in this video above he knew about the spying. Listen carefully.
At least they weren't holding hands.
Trump will find the real dope and baby in any mirror.
Where are the "support our troops" tea party Republicans? Every lie, every slur, every insult is ignored no matter if it is our law enforcement, intelligence community, or our military. Trump has insulted them all at some point and it is totally ignored.
How the hell can anybody ignore the fact that the current POTUS is clinically insane?
Possibly because there is no "clinical" proof?
"How the hell can anybody ignore the fact that the current POTUS is clinically insane? "
Because there's no such malady and most arguments flow from facts.
Insanity itself is not recognized as a medical condition, but there are a variety of disorders that could cause a person to become legally insane. This chronic mental illness is characterized by a form of psychosis that causes a person to lose touch with reality, at times to the extent of hallucination and delusion.