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Tom Rinaldo

(23,181 posts)
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 09:18 AM Oct 2017

Trump boasted during the campaign that he would bring in the best minds to advise him [View all]

He had no trouble getting his choices confirmed by the Senate.

Trump said he would listen to his generals regarding national security.

He put three of them in key positions in his administration.

Trump argued that people who succeeded in the private sector were the real leaders in society, the ones who understood how the world really worked and who knew how to get things done.

He made the CEO of one of the world's largest corporations his Secretary of State.

Trump got his team. They advised him.

And Trump told them to go fuck themselves. He will do what he wants regardless of what they think.

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