Secretary of Homeland Security found out about President Trump's Muslim travel ban by watching TV
Source: The Independent
He was getting his first briefing on the executive order when he discovered it was already being signed
Donald Trump acted so swiftly on closing US borders to refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries that his new Secretary of Homeland Security, John F. Kelly, found out about it from broadcast news.
Flying back to Washington from Miami, Kelly was given his first briefing on Trumps plan, which would ultimately lead to pandemonium and protests at US airports.
The New York Times reports:
'Halfway into the briefing, someone on the call looked up at a television in his office. The president is signing the executive order that were discussing, the official said, stunned.'
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/donald-trump-usa-travel-ban-muslim-john-f-kelly-secretary-of-homeland-secutity-tv-a7552821.html
Amateur hour
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)flygal
(3,231 posts)mobeau69
(11,144 posts)they just haven't worked out the connection yet. Stay tuned.
tavernier
(12,388 posts)I think the rest went to the media and Starbucks.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)We are screwed.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Trump probably found out that he was signing this Executive Order in a similar fashion.
2naSalit
(86,623 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)He has no idea what he is signing until its put in front of him and he reads the title.
Fking DUMBASS!!!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)took the job, he knew that he was becoming Secretary-in-Title-only (SITO). If he can't man-up, then he should suffer in silence and tell his staff to do the same. He could save some dignity by telling Trump the magic words: "I resign immediately." It is past the time for him to fall in line. He deserves all the indignities that Trump, Bannon and Conway heap on him because he is just a simple tool who had a higher opinion of himself.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)SURPRISE SURPRISE!!
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)35,040 amateur hours (4 years worth),
unless the idiot republicans do something about this,
like kick McCheetohead's a$$ to the curb.
dalton99a
(81,510 posts)Bayard
(22,075 posts)I suspect most of Trump's appointees are going to be treated in a similar fashion. If he wanted their opinion, he'd give it to them.
Paladin
(28,261 posts)No chance of that happening, though.....