President Trump has reversed course on Qatar today, speaking to the Qatari Emir on the phone and offering to help resolve the ongoing split between them and other Gulf Arab states. He was said to have emphasized the importance of all the countries in the region working together against terror.
That’s about as far as possible away from President Trump’s position only the day before, during which he not only cheered the other GCC member nations for turning on Qatar, but personally took credit for it, saying that his visit to Saudi Arabia was “already paying off.”
While White House officials insist Trump’s Tweets should be treated the same as any official press statement from them, elsewhere across the administration officials were supporting Qatar, and praising Qatar for hosting America’s largest military base in the Middle East.
Pentagon and State Department officials seemed aware from the beginning that the GCC split was potentially bad for America’s policy priorities in the region, and it seems that President Trump is back on the same page with them after what was a tremendously visible split.
Is this guy for real? My god, what a f**king moron. Anyone who continues to back this psycho is psycho.
“Pentagon and State Department officials seemed aware from the beginning that the GCC split was potentially bad for America’s policy priorities in the region …”. Gee whatever gave them that idea, since USAF C&C for the ME are run out of Qatar. I’m sure the don was so much aware of that while he kissed Saudi ass a couple of weeks ago. Bet State and the Pentagon are thrilled the don is going to smooth things over.
He must have covfefe’d on it. (yiddish for sleep, per Al Franken)
Isn’t it obvious by now that it doesn’t matter who’s “President”? There will always be continuity at the top. Random person in a Micky Mouse suit could be president and we’d have the same net result. You could make a buffalo president and we’d be in the same place.
There are three elements that determine who shall be our next president:
(1) Who is best liked.
(2) Who is most intelligent.
(3) Who is the best funded.