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"(Trump) proceeded to lecture and insult (the Secretaries of Defense, State and Treasury) about how
A senior White House official who spoke contemporaneously with participants in the meeting recorded this summary: “The president proceeded to lecture and insult the entire group about how they didn’t know anything when it came to defense or national security. It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.”
Woodward, Bob. Fear: Trump in the White House (pp. 226-227). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.
Entire group = Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin, McMasters, Cohn, Dunford, Bannon
This passage came first, of course:
Trump got up and walked out.
All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump’s attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn’t pay us to be there, then we didn’t want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money.
“Are you okay?” Cohn asked him.
“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.
All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump’s attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn’t pay us to be there, then we didn’t want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money.
“Are you okay?” Cohn asked him.
“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.
Woodward, Bob. Fear: Trump in the White House (pp. 224-225). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.
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