strength. when deep down inside you look at all of this erratic stuff he s doing, and i think strong is not the right word to be charitable to describe president trump. his approval numbers are weak, right? and when it came to firing mattis, he didn t do it himself. if he s such a tough guy, why not do it himself? he had his secretary of state do it. but this is a pattern we ve seen with this president. he won t do the dirty work. he takes the credit. just as he took the credit for demolishing isil before he said turkey and others in the region would take care of the remaining pockets. he s taken credit for the economy until the stock market turns south, now you don t hear him talking about it. he has a tendency to take credit and deflect. that s what we saw with secretary mattis, someone who didn t deserve that. he was pushed out the door, not by donald trump but donald trump s secretary of state. it s about loyalty, that loyalty is a concept he only
strongly or putin said strongly, and i think he surrounds himself with the military because he wants to convey that image of strength. when deep down inside you look at all of this erratic stuff he s doing, and i think strong is not the right word to be charitable to describe president trump. his approval numbers are weak, right? and when it came to firing mattis, he didn t do it himself. if he s such a tough guy, why not do it himself? he had his secretary of state do it. but this is a pattern we ve seen with this president. he won t do the dirty work. he takes the credit. just as he took the credit for demolishing isil before he said turkey and others in the region would take care of the remaining pockets. he s taken credit for the economy until the stock market turns south, now you don t hear him talking about it. he has a tendency to take credit and deflect.
he had handed in his resignation letter and obviously you can extrapolate why that gets to that point. he had been talked about leaving at some point which is why ask the question. he is one of the most popular members of the cabinet along with ambassador nikki haley who was not departing at the end of the year the word that struck out to me was alliances. he has long held this belief that alliances our force multipliers, they are the instruments of american power and you need to sustain them. they are what increase the deterrent edge. if i think people in washington are shocked, i think people in foreign capitals are going to be even more shocked and more worried about this move there is this idea that all of these withdrawals, firing mattis, removing mattis is going to make the world more peaceful.