Rex Tillerson is Out, but Not for the Reason the Mainstream Media Says

We learned yesterday that President Trump asked his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to step aside. The mainstream media pounced on this turnover as another sign President Trump is mentally unstable and the White House is in chaos.

Philip Rucker and his associates at The Washington Post put all pretense aside by headlining his most recent editorial – Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages.

As it often does, The Post pointed to the usual unnamed sources, trusted anonymous “closed friends of the president”, unconventional actions of Trump to prove its point.

Without reading below the fold it is obvious that almost no one in the mainstream media gets it. Trump is unconventional and proud of it. The day after The Washington Post ran the article, President Trump tweeted:

The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come and go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision. I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!

It isn’t just the media that doesn’t get Trump’s different way of doing business in Washington. Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey, wrote Rucker and crew, “[said] the American people — and Congress especially — should be alarmed.”

He then added, I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well,” McCaffrey said. “Trump’s judgment is fundamentally flawed, and the more pressure put on him and the more isolated he becomes, I think, his ability to do harm is going to increase.”

Peter Wehner, a veteran of the three Republican administrations and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center agreed, “Trump’s fundamentally distorted personality — which at its core is chaotic, volatile and transgressive — when combined with the powers of the presidency had to end poorly…What we’re now seeing is the radiating effects of that, and it’s enveloped him, his White House, his family and his friends.”

According to The Post article, President Trump’s decision to announce steep tariffs on steel and aluminum caught virtually everyone on his staff and top trade advisors by surprise. Interesting since Trump’s global economic moves were a key part of his campaign promises.

Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s trade advisers and Director of the White House National Trade Council, reminded the nation on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump defeated his political opponents in the 2016 presidential election BECAUSE of his “America First” policies. He said:

In terms of the Republican Party … Donald Trump ran against 16 Republicans. None of those Republicans supported Donald Trump’s positions on trade. He beat every one of them … What Donald Trump wants to do is fulfill his campaign promises to the American people and defend American workers.”

Rucker wants us to believe that upheaval is unusual in a president’s first term and the exodus of confidants like Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn, and Hope Hicks proves the madness of King Trump. In fact, there could be nothing further from the truth.

Trump often compares himself to one his favorites – Andrew Jackson. The election of 1828 was one of the most vicious in American history. Jackson’s opponents attacked Jackson and his wife during the campaign, claiming they married before her divorce from her previous husband. So brutal were the political attacks that Jackson blamed his opponents for Rachel’s death before he took office.

Jackson depended heavily on what he called his “kitchen cabinet” which included one of his closest and most-trusted personal advisors ― his adopted son Andrew Jackson Donelson. Donelson moved into the White House when Jackson did, and his wife then served as the White House’s hostess

Jackson later fired his entire official cabinet because their wives were socially snubbing the wife of his War Secretary.

In spite of The Post’s portrayal of Trump, some of our most effective leaders have been surrounded by naysayers and chaos. Bill Clinton’s first year was marked by nothing but chaos. Like Trump, Clinton favored an eclectic and eccentric mix of advisers with little White House experience over insiders.

Unlike Trump, Bill Clinton didn’t just have opponents calling for his impeachment, he became the only president to be – impeached. And today he is one of Democrats favored spokesman.

When the dust settles, and these angry, bitter anti-Trumpers in the mainstream media have moved on, history will show that President Trump’s administration was not chaotic, but rather genius on his part. He is getting rid of the globalists like Gary Cohn, and the ones who are too mainstream in their agenda like Rex Tillerson. Trump’s administration is as he puts it “very close to having the cabinet and other things I want.”

~ American Liberty Report


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