Whenever Trump feels cornered, he can always be counted on to take to Twitter to vent his frustrations. If the number of tweets Trump posts is equal to his frustration in any given moment, Trump’s head is clearly exploding on Thursday evening.
John Kelly didn’t know I was going to fire James Mattis, nor did he have any knowledge of my asking for a letter of resignation. Why would I tell him, he was not…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2020
…in my inner-circle, was totally exhausted by the job, and in the end just slinked away into obscurity. They all want to come back for a piece of the limelight!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2020
The problem is not the very talented, low-flying helicopter pilots wanting to save our city, the problem is the arsonists, looters, criminals, and anarchists, wanting to destroy it (and our Country)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2020
The rant was disjointed and filled with the same kind of lies Trump has been tweeting throughout the day. President Obama, for instance, did not fire Gen. James Mattis; he retired in 2013. For that matter, Trump didn’t fire Mattis, either. He resigned and issued a very public and scathing resignation letter criticizing Trump’s foreign policy. Earlier in the day, Trump also claimed he gave Mattis the nickname “Mad Dog” when he joined the Trump administration although it’s a nickname that the press gave Mattis in 2004.
It’s nice that Trump wanted to give a special shout-out to the Secret Service, but it’s rather insulting that he did so in the middle of a bunch of petty attack tweets.
Trump’s issue with Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes from her statement earlier in the day that she sides with Gen. Jim Mattis, who is under fire for a new scathing rebuke of Trump over his handling of the protesters in front of the White House on Monday. Trump, never one to let a slight pass by, had to do what he always does and insult any dissenters on social media.
By the way, 110,000 Americans are dead from COVID-19, a pandemic that has lasted only three months so far. A thousand more Americans die every day.
Twitter weighed in on Trump’s Thursday rant. See some of their comments below:
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