It's not just Trump v the media and links - he's at odds with his own cabinet

[bendog]

The skirmish surrounding Patterson’s nomination is the latest in a series of personnel battles that have played out between Mattis and the White House, with each side rejecting the names offered up by the other while the Pentagon remains empty. The White House has yet to nominate a single undersecretary or deputy secretary to the Defense Department, while Work, Mattis’s deputy, is an Obama administration holdover who only agreed to stay on until the secretary taps a deputy of his own.

A similar tug of war has played out between the White House and other agency chiefs, most notably Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom the president denied his top choice for deputy secretary of state last month.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...nt-white-house-pushback-anne-patterson-235633

 

[JakeStarkey]

When Mattis and Tillerson have a majority of the cabinet on their side, along with McMaster, they will advise Pence to submit an Amendment XXV petition to the Congress to remove Trump.

 

[bendog]

Someone in the WH (Bannon Miller?) is trying to micromanage probably the most well thought of retired general and the former chairman of Exxon. It will not end well.

 

[BlindBoo]

Trumpsong

 

[Iceweasel]

I don't take shit from Politico seriously. And I don't recall the anal exams the last eight years so ....

 

[bendog]

Trump axed Tillerson's choice of Elliot Abrams because Abrams criticized Trump in the campaign

And someone, I assume the alt Right, axed Patterson at defense because she was part of the Arab Spring on Morsi .... and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Petulance and an ideology at war with the diplomacy of 16 years