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McMaster reams Trump on 60 Minutes and Donald reacts [1]

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Date: 2025-03-03

H.R. McMaster must have touched a nerve when he appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday. Trump must have been watching. Otherwise it would have been just a "reTruth" from someone else.

McMaster was the U.S. National Security Advisor to Donald Trump for a year starting in Feb. of 2017. Preceded by Michael Flynn, Succeeded by John Bolton.

McMaster criticized Trump after he left the administration and never stopped. The 60 minutes interview went the same way, and Trump was livid.

McMaster laid into Trump about how stupid Trump was handling things and being played by Putin.

"Vladimir Putin couldn't be happier because what he sees is all this pressure on Zelensky, all of the pressure on Ukraine, and no pressure on him."

McMaster says Trump is being manipulated by Putin. "He appeals to President Trump's sense of aggrievement, right? That, you know, 'Donald, you know, like me, you know, you've been treated so unfairly.' And he's been very successful at it, because he's a master manipulator and one of the best liars in the world. And he's being played like other presidents have been played, through the same playbook as Putin's."

"War is a contest of wills, and I think what you're seeing is Donald Trump delivering a series of body blows to the Ukrainians in a way that could affect, you know, their will to continue to fight."

Ukraine's allies were probably confused by the meeting. "They think, you know, 'How can President Trump be berating the leader of Ukraine while he's saying kind things about Vladimir Putin?"

Donald doesn't like to be told to his face that he's being manipulated. I'm sure that's the first thing McMaster said that enraged him.

The McMaster post was first, but within a minute of that post Trump posted this one.

News outlets seem to think he's referring to McMaster when he talks about "less time worrying about Putin." I'm not so sure. I'm just wondering how he typed it and sent it in less than a minute.

McMaster first book was in 1997. His second was in 2020 called Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. He added new text to it in 2021 after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. 69 page sample on Google Books. The last one came out in August of last year and is another good reason Trump hates the man now. It's called At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. 46 page sample on Google Books.

The first chapter is titled "You're Fired." On page 2 he gets the phone call from Trump.

McMaster: Good Afternoon, Mr. President.

Trump: Hello, General. I'm calling to let you know that I've decided to go with John. (John Bolton). You did a great job, General. I agreed with you 90% of the time, the other 10% of the time, not so much.

McMaster: Hopefully, you saw that I never tried to get you to agree with me. I tried to give you the best analysis and multiple options.

After they hung up the phone, Trump sent out a tweet.

"... I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend."

That not only didn't last long, it wasn't the case, as McMaster lays out what happened leading up to it.

The book must be filled with great inside information on what it was like working with Trump, especially during the Russian campaign interference investigatipn of Trump and his campaign's collusion with the Russians.

Just like we saw on Friday, Trump is still colluding with the Russians. McMaster knows how it works in Trump's mind and that's why Trump is so angry in a short all caps rant.

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