Donald Trump tried to claim that he has done more to fight ISIS than Obama, and a former Obama official schooled him on what a real president does.
Trump tweeted:
We have made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years.Must be proactive & nasty!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017
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Former Obama White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Alyssa Mastromonaco, responded:
let us know when you kill Bin Laden https://t.co/bvIC1ykTZW
— Alyssa Mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) September 15, 2017
Proactive and nasty are not policy solutions. Trump has no policy solutions for anything. He only has feelings. Trump is going to be nasty to ISIS. I am sure that will teach them. What’s he going to do? Is he going to call ISIS idiots as he did to his own Attorney General, or is he going to refuse to make eye contact with ISIS like he is doing to his own economic adviser?
Trump’s obsession with measuring up to Obama is sad. The President is obsessed with his predecessor. The Trump is doing more in months than Obama did in years is becoming a common talking point in this White House. Earlier this week, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders falsely claimed that Trump has done more bipartisanship in eight days than Obama did in eight years.
This administration has no direction, no clue, can’t govern, and is being led by a senior citizen man child who is on the verge of becoming an Obama stalker.
It is illogical and impossible to believe that Donald Trump has done more to combat ISIS than Obama.
Obama got Bin Laden, and that is a bar that Trump will never be able to clear.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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