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'In the Kremlin’s pocket': Ex-Trump NatSec advisor says world leaders thought he was a 'chump'
By Donna
August 27, 2024 8:19 am
Category: Humor

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H.R. McMaster — the three-star general who served as former President Donald Trump's national security adviser for a little more than a year — is shedding new light on how the 45th president of the United States was viewed by the rest of the world.

The New York Times is reporting that in his new book, At War With Ourselves, McMaster wrote that Trump was often outmaneuvered by world leaders who used flattery to take advantage of him. This was particularly true with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2018, McMaster described how he once saw Trump writing a complimentary letter to Putin to go with a copy of a New York Post article in which he called Trump a "good listener" while criticizing the American political system...

McMaster wrote that foreign leaders treated the former president like a "chump" in their various interactions with him. During a 2017 trip across Asia, the former national security advisor recalled how he warned his boss to not let Chinese President Xi Jinping trick him into agreeing with policies that would benefit China and/or harm the U.S. or its allies. However, Trump wound up agreeing with Xi that military exercises in South Korea were a "waste of time" and that China had a case to annex Japanese territory.

[Xi] ate our lunch," McMaster wrote in a note to then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.


Even when not dealing with international affairs, McMaster wrote that the Trump White House was a "vortex of vitriol" in which staffers were constantly trying to one-up each other with gratuitous displays of sycophancy combined with "accusations of disloyalty" against each other. He also regarded former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon (currently an inmate in federal prison) as similar to both the "Iago" character in Shakespeare's play "Othello," who plays on the leader's insecurities, and the "weird sisters" in the play "Macbeth," who rile up the king with prophesies.


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  1. by HatetheSwamp on August 27, 2024 8:26 am

    alternet.org

    Bahahahahahahahahahaha haha ha!


  2. by Donna on August 27, 2024 8:32 am

    Oh stop it. You didn't even read my post. If you had, you would have known that it's a summary of a New York Times article about McMaster's new book.


  3. by Indy! on August 27, 2024 10:09 am

    It's McMasters finally stepped up (apparently at the last minute) to say something. But if we're being real? Didn't we ALL know this without even needing to be told? We saw it in real time - remember Trump waving like a little girl trying to get the attention of her favorite mancrush at one of those big dinners with Putin? He's as dumb as a rock and in love with dictators.


  4. by Indy! on August 27, 2024 10:09 am
    *It's nice


  5. by Donna on August 27, 2024 10:35 am

    Yep, we all saw how the convicted sexual predator who dishonors our veterans constantly kowtowed to the socialist dictator during those lonnnnnnnnng four years.

    We're not going back!




  6. by Indy! on August 27, 2024 10:37 am

    We're not.


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