Back in late January, President Trump surprised many with a reshuffle of the National Security Council, adding his chief strategist Steve Bannon to the council while removing the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and the Director of National Intelligence.
Today, he reversed course, booting Bannon off the council, restoring both of the previously removed posts to the principals committee, and also adding the Secretary of Energy, the CIA Director, and the US Ambassador to the United Nations to the committee.
There were reports of Bannon clashing with National Security Adviser HR McMaster, and the move is seen as a boost for McMaster, as the revision also downgrades the authority of Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, putting him under McMaster’s control.
Interestingly, White House officials say that the only reason they put Bannon on the council in the first place was to “keep an eye” on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned in February, and that Bannon’s appointment was always intended to be temporary. Officials added that Bannon never attended a single meeting of the council in his role.
Just to keep an eye on flynn…..?????? Just baby sitting then….????? Hey screw them If they can’t take a joke….. But who is the joke on…??? Is it on Bannon, those who voted Trump, or is it on McMasrers…..??????
Still leaves one wonderin why to let the navigator go this
early in the voyage…
Must more to this than Thanks Alot! Good job baby sitting… See you soon… Or not… Stay tuned… Who knows what rocks they yill find in the sea of tears ahead without Bannon to steer away from peril.. What think you..??
Even Trump cannot avoid getting stuck in the tar-pit that is Washington.
Populism and nationalism are not permitted within the establishment. Trump probably got the same message recently as Elizabeth Warren got from from Larry Summers back in 2009.
The Democrats took care of the Sanders threat in-house.
The elites’ firewall is still working as designed.
Probably a McMaster demand. At this point I think Trump is already just a hostage in his own presidency as most of his inner circle from the campaign is separated from him and those still around are under enormous pressure & threat of investigations and trial in the media, right up to his son-in-law.
Another scalp for the Establishment/Deep State.
The establishment always wins in the end.
The best explanation of this is that Trump was compeltely ignorant and uninformed to begin with. Wasn’t it obvious?
To somebody’s credit, a lot of his ignorant bullsh-t moves are being fixed. Trump’s supporters can put it down to the establishment winning against Trump but that’s just laughable at this point.
Trump’s verbal flailing around on his new position on Syria last night was a real comedy routine but probably good enough to fly right over the heads of most of his supporters. Like as if Trump ever had a position on Syria, Russia/Putin, or anything related.
However, Raimondo is going to be pretty well limited now on his support of Trump. It’s going to have to be refined to “the establishment has forced Trump to be prowar”, sort of useless babbling.
As Raimondo’s country marches to war against Syria! Make it good Raimondo, it’s going to take at least a few thousand words!
Do you have any idea what an all-out war with Syria would be like, Don? Do you really know what the situation in Europe was like back in March of 1914, 5 months before the outbreak of WW1? We’re in the same type of situation today as Europe was in 100 years ago .. only, this time, the major powers (USA, Russia and China) have large stockpiles of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. The so-called “Establishment” is totally psychotic and suicidal, and the rest of us don’t want to be victims of the USA’s suicidal actions.
What actually changed Donald Trump’s stance on Syria (and Russia) was the death threats he’s been receiving from lunatic left-wing extremists, who hate Russia in the extreme. The Donald began his administration on the right track, with his anti-war, anti-interventionist Inaugural address, and that’s when the lunatic fringe on the left ratcheted up their rhetoric with actual death threats.
Oh sure Eileen, it’s not Trump’s fault that your country could be on the verge of a war that involved Russia. And you can’t believe the truth because it’s still domestic politics for you.
Eileen, if it turns out that you have contributed in your small way to war with Russia or with Russia involved, do you have childrent you should be buying lethal injections for so you can administer them when the radiation sickness gets too bad to endure?
I know that having Bannon as Chief White House Strategist was an unusual person to have on the National Security Council, and that it was possible he was there to check on the others, but what I see as a bigger story is whether Bannon is on the outs with President Trump.
I would prefer that to not be the case, but I have heard that Gary Cohn is playing a bigger role in the White House than before, and that his views are more closely aligned to Hillary Clinton’s, as he sees himself as being a liberal New Yorker. I think he’s going to help drag President Trump toward the direction of what didn’t work before, and wreck his presidency.
I would definitely prefer Bannon over Cohn, as Bannon is a better thinker about what’s going on here.