After Assad killed dozens of his own people in the city of Douma with a vile chemical weapons attacks, President Trump tried to blame former President Barack Obama for the Syrian disaster happening under Trump’s watch, forgetting that he had tried to order Obama not to attack Syria.
Sunday, April 8, 2018:
If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2018
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The problem is, the Internet does not forget.
In 2013, Trump was trying to order Obama not to attack Syria at all:
AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA – IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2013
It wasn’t one of his one-off mistakes/missteps:
President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your "powder" for another (and more important) day!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2013
@walaa_3ssaf No, dopey, I would not go into Syria, but if I did it would be by surprise and not blurted all over the media like fools.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013
Let the Arab League take care of Syria. Why are these rich Arab countries not paying us for the tremendous cost of such an attack?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013
Trump wanted the troops out and Assad responded with a deadly chemical weapons attack on his own people.
The horrific attack is one of the outcomes of Trump’s irregular isolationism. We might not want to be the world’s police, but with great power comes great responsibility. If we don’t take action during humanitarian crises, this is the kind of thing that can and does happen.
“The Syrian state denied government forces had launched any chemical attack and Russia, President Bashar al-Assad’s most powerful ally, called the reports bogus,” Reuters reported. Furthermore, “The Russian Foreign Ministry warned against any military action on the basis of ‘invented and fabricated excuses’, saying this could lead to severe consequences.”
Now Trump is trying to say there is a big price to pay. But his words are weak and worthless, as his own tweets herein evince. Over and over again, Trump demonstrates that not only is he weak when Putin is involved, but in general, his words have no meaning or weight and he takes zero ownership of his own words.
Trump’s shift with the paranoid, mercurial winds of his moods and he, as a leader, can be easily talked out of his threats – unless he is trying to fire people who are investigating him, and then he has a Nixonian heel of steel, which should not be confused with a spine.
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