Mori Chu wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:21 pm
Former Chief of Staff John Kelly has this to say about Donald Trump. Scathing. But it always raises the question, why did these people serve him? And why did so many wait years before speaking out, if at all?
Woodward: Kelly labeled Trump ‘unhinged’ and ‘idiot’
BY MORGAN GSTALTER -
09/04/18
https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ward-book/
A lot of Trumps former employees said they stayed on to protect America from Trump and thought Trump would just replace them with yes men that would do all those crazy things.
It seems most of his “best people” had a few things to say about their former boss. I have posted this before. It never gets old.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader,”
White House chief of staff John Kelly called Trump “an idiot” and said he thought the president was “unhinged,”
Omarosa Manigault Newman - Trump is a “racist, misogynist and bigot.”
“We must elect a thoughtful, moral, responsible, respectful leader on Nov. 3. Our current president is not that leader,” he wrote. - Former intelligence agency director Robert Cardillo
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called Trump an “idiot,”
Reince Priebus called Trump an “idiot,”
Former economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was “dumb as sh-t,”
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the president was a “dope,”
Robert Cardillo said that broadly speaking he can “attest that Americans were very well served by those they elected to fill critical national security positions” with the exception of Trump.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in November 2017 that Trump was “like an 11-year-old child,” according to Vanity Fair. He also said that Trump had “lost his step.”
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in July 2017 called Trump a “moron,”
At a dinner in July 2017, McMaster mocked Trump, also calling him an “idiot,” BuzzFeed News reported. At the dinner, which was with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster also said Trump was a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,”
“A supreme sexist.”—Barbara Res, former executive vice-president of Trump Organization, who also said “he thinks he’s God.”
Working with Trump is “like trying to figure out what a child wants”—White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh
“The White House has become an adult day care center”—Republican senator Bob Corker of Tennessee
“Morally unfit to be president,” “unethical” and “untethered to truth”—former FBI director James Comey, who also compared the US president to a mafia boss.
Former intelligence agency director Robert Cardillo - “Our current president bases his decisions on his instincts, and his instincts are based upon a personal value proposition — what’s in it for me?”
“Less a person than a collection of terrible traits”—Trump’s former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn.
Olivia Troye, special adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism issues under Pence - Trump's biggest concern about the coronavirus had been how it would affect his reelection and said that he didn't care about people getting sick. She said she was a lifelong Republican who would vote for Biden.
John Kelly - “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
Someone who “sucks up and sh-ts down”—former Fox News chief and confidant Roger Ailes.
Sam Nunberg Adviser- “This idiot”
John Bolton, a self-described “lifelong conservative,” said he will not vote for President Trump in November, calling Trump a “danger for the republic”
Trump is “unfit for office” and lacks the “competence to carry out the job.”
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says he no longer supports President Trump's re-election, calling his one-time employer "off the rails" and likening the presidency to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 'The guy stinks and he’s a racist'
Ted Cruz - “Whatever he does he accused everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen.”
Rand Paul - “My concern is that he would grab up that power and really treat the country as sort of his little bully fiefdom.” “Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and orange-faced windbag.”
Marco Rubio - “Donald Trump is a con artist.”
Nikki Haley - “Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten.”
Marco Rubio - “Donald Trump has been exploiting working Americans for forty years.”
Lindsey Graham again, “He’s a race-bating xenophobic religious bigot.”
Kellyanne Conway - “He says he’s for the little guy but he’s actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy.”
Mike Pompeo - “Donald Trump said the other day that if he ‘told a soldier to commit a war crime he would go do it.’ ”
Glenn Beck - “I don’t think Donald Trump has even read the constitution, knows what’s in the constitution.”
Rick Perry - “Trump is a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense.”
Susan Collins, who backs Trump just about all of the time said, “I just cannot support Donald Trump.”
Ted Cruz - “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies, practically every word that comes out of his mouth.”
Lindsey Graham - “I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office.”
