The Trump cabinet apology tour.

[kpete]

Trump's words send Cabinet on perpetual clean-up mission
Allies around the world aren't sure whether to listen to Trump or members of his team running damage control after the fact.
By NAHAL TOOSI 02/23/17 11:39 PM EST


With each passing day, Donald Trump’s Cabinet looks more like a clean-up crew.

The president’s undiplomatic comments are repeatedly forcing his foreign policy and national security appointees into the awkward position of telling an anxious world that, basically, their boss didn’t really mean what he said.


The latest example came Thursday, as Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Mexico, a frequent target of Trump’s ire. Trump declared in the morning that the U.S. deportation program he wants to ramp up is “a military operation.”

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Still, whether it is Mexico, America’s NATO allies in Europe, or major Asian partners such as Japan and South Korea, Trump aides are scrambling to reassure counterparts that the U.S. is committed to friendships it has long sustained and policies it has long championed. As a result, many leaders in those other countries often don’t know who to believe.



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[gordianot]

1. Weak, ineffectual, a loser as a dictator.

How long do you think Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, IdiAmin, the Korean Kim's, Mao, Pol Pot, or even Nixon would have put up with such disloyal subordinates? Trump is weak even his much touted deplorables may make noise but sit on their hands.