Armed Services Chair Says Trump Handling Syria Like 'Drunken Sailor' with 'Emotional Rantings of a

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Armed Services Chair Says Trump Handling Syria Like ‘Drunken Sailor’ with ‘Emotional Rantings of a Child’


On CNN, new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) was on CNN on Monday when he took some hard shots at Donald Trump. This comes a day after his big Sunday talk show interview on ABC’s This Week where he cautioned against too much enthusiasm for impeachment.

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“He’s changing course like a drunken sailor, okay? There’s no thought behind it,” said Smith, going for the heat. ‘What we need is actually rational policy in Syria on border security. All we have is the emotional rantings of a child, alright? And he goes back and forth depending on what the last person said to him.”

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Smith elaborated on the process of withdrawal and the need to do it carefully, and said that the president’s way of “operating on the whims of his emotions” is “disastrous” and “ultimately why [former Defense Secretary James Mattis] left.”

“It wasn’t just the decisions, it was the way the president made them, you know, like a 4-year-old,” he said. “And we cannot govern the world, we cannot have relationships with our allies, and have a clear foreign policy when he flits all over the place with no intelligent rationale.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/armed-services-chair-says-trump-handling-syria-like-drunken-sailor-with-emotional-rantings-of-a-child/