Trump is reportedly turning on Mattis and taking US military matters into his own hands

[ehrnst]

President Donald Trump has reportedly soured on Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and is making more US military policy on his own.

Trump didn't consult Mattis when he withdrew from the Iran deal, dropped military exercises with South Korea, and ordered the creation of a new military branch.

A Pentagon spokesperson said it was silly to think Mattis wasn't in the loop.

But the Pentagon has a history of disjointed responses to snap decisions from Trump.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reportedly-turns-on-mattis-takes-us-military-into-his-own-hands-2018-6

[peekaloo]

1. Countdown until the "Mad Dog" is put down.

Only sycophants need apply.

[northoftheborder]

2. Ominous. What a bit of news to start the day.

[uponit7771]

3. Cause it went great that time when the narrow mustach guy did it

[Laf.La.Dem.]

4. Why talk to Mattis - when you will talk to the master (Putin) in a few weeks?

He knows more than all the generals -

[Iliyah]

5. Bolton is smarter than Mattis but not as smart as t-rump who is the

smartest person in the un-real world.

[RKP5637]

7. Smarter than Einstein so some in the RW say ...

Damn fools.

[Zoonart]

6. Congress is the check on the power of

Generalisimo tRump. Let them hear your voice.

[Turbineguy]

8. Hitler did that.

It's how he lost the war.

[riversedge]

9. Here at home deploying the Nat. Guard to the border was and is a mistake....

but Mattis will probably not make a fuss about this or other matters---he is a soldier and trump is his Commander in Chief.



.... In July 2017, Trump announced a ban on transgender people joining the US military. Four federal courts struck down the order, and by the end of the year Mattis was accepting transgender troops again.

Trump, unsatisfied with the Pentagon slow-walking his policy decisions, has increasingly cut out Mattis and taken matters into his own hands, NBC cites sources as saying.

Trump recently asked the military to come to the rescue of another imperiled policy by asking the National Guard to come to the border. Mattis reportedly resisted the idea in private but remained tight-lipped and dutiful in his public comments.

"[Mattis] didn't feel like the mission was well-defined," a senior White House official told NBC.
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Now those National Guard soldiers are reportedly shoveling manure and feeding border patrol horses, among other menial tasks. ........................

[exboyfil]

12. Mattis needs to realize that he is no longer a general

but the Secretary of Defense. This is part of the reason that there is a law requiring a special vote by Congress to allow recently retired military from serving as Secretary of Defense.

If he have a military disaster attributable to Mattis' unwillingness to act like a SecDef, then that will be on his head.

[PearliePoo2]

10. When BLOTUS was asked who he would listen to for advice, he said...

"I will listen to myself".

So no one should be surprised that he's a White House human wrecking ball. They'll all be gone. And no one of any quality or with any smarts will be there to replace them.

As Mika said last week on 'Morning Joe', "He's a runaway beer truck, this is one big CLUSTER - - - -".

[Achilleaze]

11. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief* is overcompensating

for his abject cowardice.

* aka Dirty Donny (R)