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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:11 PM Oct 2021

TFG spent most national security meetings acting like a big baby

Trump spent most national security meetings calling his predecessors 'idiots' and claiming credit for things he didn't do, book says

The top Russia expert from the Trump White House said in her new book that former President Donald Trump spent most national security meetings complaining and calling his predecessors "idiots."

That's according to "There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century," by Fiona Hill.

Hill served as an intelligence analyst from 2006 to 2009, under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In 2017, she was appointed deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council under Trump.

"I soon would have the opportunity to observe firsthand - over and over again - that Trump was far more interested in seizing the opportunity to claim credit and say he had done 'amazing things' for people, things that 'nobody had ever done before,' than in engaging in the hard work necessary for real accomplishments," she writes in her memoir.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-spent-most-national-security-meetings-calling-his-predecessors-idiots-and-claiming-credit-for-things-he-didnt-do-book-says/ar-AAPaitP
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TFG spent most national security meetings acting like a big baby (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
You could show 75 million Americans videotape of him acting like a child Eliot Rosewater Oct 2021 #1
Remember the former guy is the one who crashed the stage at a charity event gratuitous Oct 2021 #2
I don't think he's matured at all since 1948. tanyev Oct 2021 #3
It wasn't an act. 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #4
that's when he even bothered to ATTEND national security meetings mnmoderatedem Oct 2021 #5
Babies don't grab women 'there'. spanone Oct 2021 #6
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #7

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. You could show 75 million Americans videotape of him acting like a child
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:13 PM
Oct 2021

exposing that he has no intellect at all, none, and they would still worship him.

My point is while I am glad all this truth is coming out, it will make zero difference. VERY bad days ahead.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Remember the former guy is the one who crashed the stage at a charity event
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:18 PM
Oct 2021

He hadn't contributed any money, but decided he needed to be up on stage with the people who had done the fundraising and hard work for the charity building a school for kids with AIDS.

https://www.complex.com/life/2016/10/trump-crashed-charity-event-macarena-didnt-donate

Seems like he hasn't matured at all since 1996.

mnmoderatedem

(3,728 posts)
5. that's when he even bothered to ATTEND national security meetings
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:13 PM
Oct 2021

remember when he was a sitting president he indicated how he couldn't be bothered to attend those daily meetings, because effectively was bored by them.

And the comment drifted on by with barely any attention. And if Obama had dared to say something like that, we'd STILL be hearing about it.

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