“Up until now, Lt. Gen. HR McMaster has kept his anger at the Trump White House in check. McMaster has performed admirably in major U.S. conflicts over the past several decades, including the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War, but as McMaster notes in his new book, The War With Ourselves: My Mission Tour in the Trump White HouseIn some ways, his most challenging assignment as a soldier was his last: serving as national security adviser to a mercurial president. cnn report.
“In his sharp and insightful account of his time in the Trump White House, McMaster described meetings in the Oval Office as ‘exercises in competitive flattery,’ during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president with comments like ‘Your instincts are always right’ and ‘No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.’”
“Meanwhile, Trump used to say ‘strange’ things like, ‘Why don’t we bomb the drugs in Mexico?’ or ‘Why don’t we just wipe out all the North Korean soldiers during their parade?'”
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