Former National Security Adviser John Bolton was ousted abruptly on Tuesday as President Donald Trump soured on him months after first being drawn to his TV appearances in support of Trump’s agenda.
Despite the moustache, he was reportedly hired due to his bombast and bluster on Fox.
What scares most people about Bolton, was what Trump was attracted to - at least on air. However Bolton is something Trump doesn’t comprehend: an ideologue (and a crazy war-mongering one, at that.)
Glad Bolton is further away from the levers of war. Now we just need to pry Fat Nixon’s baby-like fingers off of those levers of power/the white house.
That said of all of the rumours swirling yesterday as to what was the final straw, I enjoyed most the one that Trump was all obsessive over the idea that Bolton leaked the nuke the hurricane story to the media. Its just so humiliating for all involved.
I’m delighted at Bolton’s humiliation–long overdue and he should have suffered more.
OTOH: I will also very much enjoy the karmic inevitability of the demise of Tucker Carlson’s career. The only thing I wish I could do is then shoehorn him into combat fatigues and drop him into the Afghan mountains with a big target on his back reading “Chickenhawk.”
This was the conman-in-chief finally realizing that Bolton actually meant all that crazy talk, and would’ve regime-changed several countries if given the chance. Conman met the ideologue and didn’t like it.
Kinda funny to think of Trump being freaked out by an underling who didn’t live entirely for the grift.
spot on.
Along with his myriad of reprehensible, unredeeming qualities is the odd reluctance in Trump to start a shooting war with anyone, so much so that he puts scary amounts of energy into sucking up to dictators and war criminals. I don’t believe it reflects any real humanity in him, so much as a fundamental fear that the blow-back will stick to him in a way that most American “interventions” have to other presidents in the last 50 years. I don’t think it’s about killing people in other countries, it’s about having to take responsibility for killing people in other countries, especially if the overall endeavor is labeled a failure in the end.
Donald Trump, John Bolton, Tucker Carlson: Snakes on a Plane
I think maybe it’s simpler? Wars sound like hard work. Lots of presidenting to do, and not so much strutting on camera. But your theory fits, too.
And lots of criticism. What he seems to have really sought out are opportunities to be perceived as a peacemaker. Less criticism and expense, all that, and he wants a Nobel bad because of you-know-who. My greatest fear in the early days was we’d get into a shooting war that would escalate to WWIII but he just doesn’t seem to have much of an appetite for it for some reason. 
Ahhhh…it was the 'stache…and it was Spicer’s suits…and and and. Helluva way to run a government.
I think his fear is rational. All of our wars of empire have ended badly. The age of empire is over, the neocons just haven’t ever gotten the message.
The mustache’s tenure at the White House was 43 Mooches.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told Fox News in June that it’s “tough” to follow his instincts and withdraw all troops from Afghanistan when a “great-looking, central casting” military general urges him not to.
Makes one wonder what daddy issues Jr is trying to work out with his dalliances into facial hair…
Bolton, Tucker, Trump.
Here’s to praying that the lifeboats are all riddled with holes.
No Republican ever got fired for being too crazy.
Most of the ones that fall out of favor suffer their fate for being insufficiently crazy.
One of the final nails in the coffin had to be that Bolton was right about inviting the Taliban to Camp David. The only thing worse than being spectacularly wrong is being right and Dear Leader being spectacularly wrong.
