Tweeter-in-Chief vs. Retired Marine Corps General
(The
Grand Face Off)
Mattis vs
Trump: No contest
Trump piles
one lie on top of another, then another after that, and then still another after
that and so forth, and bingo another … the man is incorrigible. Case in point
from The
AP:
Trump skews history by
saying he fired Mattis
Introduction:
When Jim Mattis announced his resignation as defense secretary, Trump thanked
him for “tremendous progress” in helping to rebuild the military and for
“retiring with distinction.” Times changed and so did Trump's story about
losing his Pentagon chief.
Trump now
claims he fired Mattis, says President Barack Obama did the same and takes
credit for nicknaming him “Mad Dog” Mattis.
None of that
is true.
After
leaving the administration, Mattis let it be known that he was biting his lip
about Trump's leadership. He only hinted at his concerns — even in a recent
book — until his recent statements this week opening up on “…the first president in my lifetime who does
not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try.”
Trump lashed
back in routine Trump fashion and also in true Trump fashion, skipping the
truth and facts along the way:
TRUMP
TWEETED (of course): “Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in
common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most
overrated General.”
THE FACTS:
That’s not what happened in either case. Mattis resigned as defense secretary
in protest over Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, giving two
months' notice. The retired four-star Marine general announced on December 20,
2018, that he would step down in February 2019.
Another Trump tweet:
He praised Mattis as a “great help” in getting allies to put up more money
for their military obligations, adding: “General Jim Mattis will be retiring,
with distinction. I greatly thank Jim for his service!”
But the
matter didn’t sit well with Trump because three days later he abruptly said he
was bringing in a replacement on January 1, 2019, and not waiting until the
next month.
Also Barack Obama
didn’t fire Mattis, who served as head of the Central Command in that administration.
Mattis departed a few months earlier than expected in 2013, in part because of
disagreements over Iran.
TRUMP
tweeted again: “His nickname was Chaos (FYI: That was Mattis' military call
sign in Iraq) which I didn’t like, & I changed to Mad Dog.”
THE FACTS:
No, Trump didn’t change Mattis’ nickname to Mad Dog, as he often claims to have
done. Mattis had been called that for more than a decade before joining the
Trump administration. Mattis had that moniker dating back at least to 2004,
when he was commanding general of the 1st Marine Division.
He attributed the
nickname to the press, though old press accounts said that’s what his troops
called him in Iraq. He had Chaos as his military call sign Chaos
when he was a Marine Colonel in Iraq.
My 2 cents: Recall Trump
said: “I know more than all the Generals” for what: Skipping Vietnam with
a phony “bone spurs” medical excuse from the family doctor?
In 2016, then-candidate
Trump made it clear that he believed himself to be more knowledgeable than the
military’s leadership saying: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do,
believe me,” (Bragged in
November 2015).
“They don’t know much because they’re not winning,” (Reiterated in
June 2016).
Proof meet pudding – case closed.
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