Mon Jul 31 2017: What’s wrong with Fareed? Fareed Zakaria – still mad that he promised a landslide loss for Donald Trump in the presidential election – prodded Trump today calling him the ultimate “bluffer” on the issue of North Korea.
Not a good idea. I wouldn’t call his bluffs if I were you, Fareed – you’re putting us all at risk. President Donald Trump is definitely a little testy when it comes to calling him out on anything. Please try not to poke and prod him about military affairs.
But how is the President “a bluffer”? He’s signed all his Executive Actions he said he would, he went ahead with the Travel Ban, and he quickly went after Syria after the chemical weapons attack Bashar AL-Assad carried out on his own country. Remember on that day the President tipped his hand by saying that he would have a decision on Syria “very soon,” – that night, in fact. So the President is not a man of inaction.
Yet Fareed went ahead and said just that. Keep in mind that Fareed has his own special to promote airing tonight on Why Trump Won, I suspect that is why he’s feeling more confident about running his mouth. But given the history of CNN postponing its special Specials indefinitely, I don’t expect to see it tonight so who knows why Fareed thinks he won’t be watching Don Lemon with ‘Breaking News’ tonight at 10 pm. [Note: Fareed’s special was postponed and is slated to premiere Monday August 6.]
Speaking of breaking news — Antony Mooch Scaramucci is out as White House Communications Director. (I need to hire more staff to keep up with this Administration.) Anthony lasted a little over 11 days (counting weekends). Wow I bet he never even shorted a stock that quickly in his former life.
Alas, with every failure there is a lesson to be learned. The lesson here is when the Boss takes you out to dinner to celebrate your first day on the job, don’t get drunk out of your gourd and call a New York Times reporter when you stagger home. Scaramucci first made news by ousting Sean Spicer as Communications Director and Press Secretary. Boring news, admittedly, so the Mooch felt the need to make a bigger impact on his first full day on the job by getting hammered the night before. But who wouldn’t do that, really? (People who end up keeping their new job, probably.)
And it looks like the President took my advice and took out Rience Priebus as Chief of Staff, too, this weekend and replaced him with Homeland Security Director John kelly. (Hat trick!) Priebus was a real dud anyways, we only ever heard from him when he leaked information to the Press (yes, I’m calling the leak. Check back here later when the NY Times and Washington Post out him in a year.) I never cared for the guy — Spicer and Preibus were nothing but Republican Party political hacks. Once in the White House they were actually expected to produce results. Spicer was a loose cannon, and Reince was, just Reince (presumably named Reince by his parents because Ugly Forrest Gump was too on the nose for pointing out a privileged dunce).
So where were we? Oh yeah, Fareed calling the President indecisive and all talk and no action. Good call after a week of three firings and hirings. Now the news media can go ahead and call this a White House in chaos – although they’ve been using that phrase for 9 months now – however I don’t see it that way. This is a good house cleaning in my scorebook; Did you really like the lineup of characters running around the administration to begin with? Absolutely not.
All these replacements are good. And the action is swift and decisive – just what we elected Trump for; no, exactly what we elected Trump for. If the Trump train is running a little off course, change the conductor, rip up the rails and change tack. Bad people in powerful positions of influence bring down countries and economies, not just presidential administrations. So firing these losers is just what the doctor ordered, and we don’t have to wait around for changes to be made.
