Top U.S. officials tell the world to ignore Trumps tweets
Source: The Washington Post
By Michael Birnbaum and Griff Witte February 18 at 7:45 AM
MUNICH — Amid global anxiety about President Trump’s approach to global affairs, U.S. officials had a message to a gathering of Europe’s foreign policy elite this weekend: pay no attention to the man tweeting behind the curtain.
U.S. lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — and top national security officials in the Trump administration offered the same advice publicly and privately, often clashing with Trump’s Twitter stream: the United States remains staunchly committed to its European allies, is furious with the Kremlin about election interference and isn’t contemplating a preemptive strike on North Korea to halt its nuclear program.
But Trump himself engaged in a running counterpoint to the message, taking aim on social media at his own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, because he “forgot” on Saturday to tell the Munich Security Conference that the results of the 2016 weren’t affected by Russian interference, a conclusion that is not supported by U.S. intelligence agencies. They say they will likely never be able to determine whether the Russian involvement swung the election toward Trump. The determination to ignore Trump’s foreign-policy tweets has been bipartisan.
“There is a lot more support for continuing our past policies than it might appear from some of the statements,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) told an audience on Sunday that was comprised mostly of Europe’s foreign-policy elite. “The unanimity comes from those folks who are actually operationalizing policy.”
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you apparently have no fucking conscience, lets get to that point first and foremost----------------your a fucking idiot
I know the media made it sound like you could bring sanity to the clown show.......................you have failed, and you also lie
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
It's a diplomatic way of saying to ignore the Presidential statements and look at what the actual departmental employees are doing.
...On the other, I think it is a way to distance Americans and the US from this strange phenomenon Trump being.
And save, as much as possible what's left in terms of credibility and dignity.
Our leaders know who is Trump. They won't say it publicly but they have no consideration for him and will certainly not take him seriously.
I'm almost sure, it is a relief to have again real diplomats to talk with and who really represent the USA, until a real president will be elected.
It is a way to limit the damages and more or less, go back to our habits as long time allies.
