Add Trump’s national
security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, to the growing list of high-profile
people who think he’s a total buffoon.
McMaster, a seasoned
combat officer in the Army, is reportedly fed up with Trump’s lack of
intelligence, lack of focus, and inability to understand even the most basic
premises of national security.
According to
several Buzzfeed sources, McMaster was
attending a private dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, and dragged Trump
through the mud, calling him an “idiot,” a “dope,” and someone with the
intelligence of “a kindergartner.”
Another source who wasn’t at the dinner told
Buzzfeed that McMaster has made similar comments before.
Recently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called Trump a moron,
prompting the man-baby to jump on Twitter and challenge Tillerson to an IQ
test.
Trump either knows exactly what he is and is riddled with self-loathing and embarrassment over it, or he honestly believes he has one of the great minds and memories of all time, just like he’s claimed, and his fragile fee-fees can’t handle anyone thinking otherwise.
Then there’s Senator Bob
Corker, who’s had no qualms at
all about criticizing Trump, which led the two of them into a Twitter war
because Trump can’t stand looking like the pathetic, ineffective pseudo-man
that he is. And we all know how Senator Jeff Flake feels.
Officials who are on
Trump’s side, however, push back against all these things vehemently.
From their stories, everything is hunky-dory in the White House,
and Trump is highly competent, calm, collected, respected – in short, presidential.
Anyone inside or outside the White House talking badly about him
is just, well, jealous…? Or un-American…?
To them, these stories are nothing more than people deliberately
working to undermine Trump, at least in the world Trump and his loyalists are
desperate to create.
These stories keep coming out, though, and when taken with his
embarrassing public appearances and his ridiculous behavior on Twitter, they
are ever harder to ignore. Buzzfeed has five sources for McMaster’s words, with
a sixth saying they’d heard similar words from him before.
This dinner between McMaster
and Catz took place over the summer, and was allegedly peppered with insults
toward Trump and other senior members of the White House staff, including
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
McMaster reportedly (and, if true, correctly) said that Kushner doesn’t
belong in the White House and shouldn’t be involved in national security
matters.
In short, Trump doesn’t
have the respect he thinks he has.
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