we know as a retired marine corps four-star general that the chaos must be anethma to him. the dysfunction in the white house as chief of staff he partly owned it but the driver, the cause of it is the president of the united states. not the staff secretary. not the chief of staff. not the deputy chief of staff. it s a completely unprepared, completely incompetent, extremely emotional president of the united states who revels in his ignorance, who revels in his unpreparedness, he doesn t know the first thing about anything. and i m certain that s frustrating to someone like john kelly who knows that we can t pull our forces out of the korean peninsula one day after they ve been there for 60 years just because the president saw something about it on fox & friends. it s become the the republicans have become the party of trump. he s got 80% gop support.
stay focused on what it was. it was supposed to be an initial conversation with good will displayed by him and people in the room about solving a problem and what he is so wrapped around the axel of his own ratings and per formances that it didn t seem to sustain his own interest while he was there. well, look, the meeting yesterday was a reaction, of course, to the wolff book where the premise has been laid out that the president is incoherent, fundamentally unfit for the job, profoundly unstable. so the solution to that was the stunt we saw play out discussing immigration yesterday. and so while he may have been coherent, he demonstrated his complete utter, unpreparedness to discuss a serious public policy issue in this country. and then what i think was most shameful about it is when we
course, whether it was a crime or not, the special counsel will determine but we know that the president of the united states was engaged in premeditatedly lying to the american people and in every instance as is always the case since they made the first representations denying that there was any involvement with russians, every instance the administration has been found to be lying on all of these issues and, of course, we see in this book the chaos, the incompetence, the recklessness, the unpreparedness around the most powerful person of the world of the menageri e. looking at the comportment in this majestic place, the west wing of the white house, they couldn t be more vile than if they re monkeys hurling excrement at each other in a cage. the new york times reporting tonight comes after an
conspiracy. it s frightening, frankly. again, we see that with the actions on the airplane, of course, whether it was a crime or not, the special counsel will determine but we know that the president of the united states was engaged in premeditatedly lying to the american people and in every instance as is always the case since they made the first representations denying that there was any involvement with russians, every instance the administration has been found to be lying on all of these issues and, of course, we see in this book the chaos, the incompetence, the recklessness, the unpreparedness around the most powerful person of the world of the menageri e. looking at the comportment in this majestic place, the west wing of the white house, they couldn t be more vile than if
the unpreparedness and the nature of his personality in a job that requires steadfastness. and, you know, the real problem beyond reinforcing those fears, and i suspect by the way that those who love trump will continue to love trump, but the real problem is that it becomes a central story now and it will for some time at a time when, you know, this president was coming out of a break in which he was celebrating having passed a major piece of legislation, just tax cuts and seemed to be getting some footing and now this throws him right back again. one republican we don t know who that republican senator is.