Bolton Slams Trump Foreign Policy | Talking Points Memo

Although former National Security Adviser John Bolton has kept a relatively low profile since his resignation in September, he hasn’t exactly kept his thoughts on President Trump’s foreign policy approach to himself.


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OT, but Trump is dumb as a rock. In a speech today he claimed his daughter Ivanka is responsible for fully 9% of all jobs in the nation. One person in every eleven owes their job to Ivanka Trump.

In 2018, around 155.76 million people were employed in the United States.

While speaking to the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, President Donald Trump praised his daughter Ivanka, who he claimed had “created 14 million jobs.”

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Yeah, fine.

Come testify, you insufferable prick.

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“Bolton expressed skepticism about Trump applying his business acumen to foreign policy…”

“Business acumen”?

Trump?!

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Thank you, Ivanka. Could I ever survive without your service to the country and to humanity in general?

Yeah, probably so.

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It’s decision time, Bolton. Either you step forward and come clean in the overall interests of the United States, or you remain coy for your own partisan and selfish interests (which is what you are accusing Trump of doing). Which is it?

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Bolton referred to the shitstain’s “business acumen” and didn’t have to pause for the laughter to subside? And WTF is this swine doing at a global investment event? The only thing he invests in is war and torture. Oh wait, I forgot, the bizness of America is war and torture. My bad.

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Bolton’s remarks painted a grim image of the President’s family who he believes is guided by personal gain in the decisions they make for the country, according to NBC

Which is a surprise to nobody

Although Trump had claimed that he fired him, Bolton said that he resigned from his position

It doesn’t matter. You’ve got the cheese touch now either way.

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Right on cue – here comes what many people are going to need.

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Sort of embarrassing to watch Trump’s bloviations on economy. The size of the US labor force relative to population has been declining for over two decades, and if anything we have seen a further bifurcation of wealth. The last time the Gini coefficient, a rough measure of wealth or income disparity depending on how it is applied, narrowed, was at the end of the Kennedy administration and in the early years of Johnson. What I hear is the lack of any long-term economic policy, because that would require understanding the future.

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So, you’ll tell a bunch of rich guys in private, but not Congress and the American people? Brave man you are, John Bolton.

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And despite no explanation of how she accomplished this feat, or what jobs, the base eats it up like manna.

Insane,

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Sadder yet is that Ivanka believes him.

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Is moron aware of the number of moderate to severe headaches he’s caused for around 200 million Americans?

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Hey! Kentucky whiskey has never been selling better than it is now under Dotard T rumpp!

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That’s called a hangover.

And is also a tribute, therefore, to the massively successful operation to Make Alcohol Great Again, and support wineries, breweries, distilleries, countless bars and 7-11s…

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He would if Congress paid the fee for his going rate.

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God help us. With regard to the office of the US President and apologies to Edna St Vincent Millay…

Holding a little pool

Left there by the tide,

A little tepid pool,

Drying inward from the edge.

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More OT (except as it relates to “the truth will out”) :

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