"He's acting like diplomats are just construction workers he can release with a wave of his hand."

[lostnfound]

"It's really disrespectful to treat them this way."

Just heard these exact words on Stephanie Ruhles show, by an otherwise sensible guy.

Of course he is right, but it struck me as a classic moment of clarity about why rich media and the swamp are hated.

Because if you make your living as a construction worker in America, there is no respect. You can be released with a wave of the hand, and there's no job security. And that's just life, for the bottom 80%.

[dalton99a]

1. Employees are fungible

to the great businessman

[gratuitous]

5. Trump will probably withhold their last paycheck

You know, just in case a stapler is missing from the embassy, and they have to figure out if one of the departing lifted it.

[dalton99a]

6. He's probably already instructed Sessions to go after anyone who wants to talk to the press

[SummerSnow]

2. In Trumps world, they are expendable.

[loyalsister]

10. Exactly

I don't understand why there is any expectation that would ever be driven by the standard conventions and procedures that have defined the presidency for as long as any of us has been here to see it. He defined himself as a character and candidate as operating without basic rules of courtesty and diplomacy.
He promised to be that guy in the WH and that is one promise he has not broken. As horrify and terrifying as it has been, I think that none of what he has said has surprised me. What bothers me more is that people are being too conventional about encouraging him and having any expectation that he might deicide to actually act like a president.

[Zoonart]

3. For all of those idiots that have been yammering

for years about how the USA needs a CEO and not a president... well?

I read in Vanity Fair that Jared and others who were charged with staffing up the wast wing were shocked to find it empty when they arrived. They had some stupid idea that an incoming administration was like a corporate takeover... that all of the employees would remain in place and they could weed them out at will over time. THEY HAD NO IDEA. how government works and they don't to this day.

For 45, cutting these diplomats loose is just like stiffing contractors, it improves his bottom line. Only it's not HIS anything. It is the infrastructure of OUR government that has been built painstakingly by foreign service professionals over a century.

He just does not give a shit about anyone's life or treasure other than his own and that includes the treasure of OUR government.

[dalton99a]

7. The Trump family is treating the U.S. government like a business acquisition

It's theirs to use and ours to pay for

[loyalsister]

11. It's shame that this was what (hopefully!!) it has taken to expose the fallacy

that the skills of even a business mogul would transfer to the office POTUS. Of course, that myth that Trump has ever been truly successful may live on with some.

[lostnfound]

12. Well said. Nt

[CanonRay]

4. It's disrespectful to construction workers as well.

[lostnfound]

13. That was exactly my point.

All human beings need to be treated with respect, as the subjects of their own lives, not as objects to be used.

[maxrandb]

8. And then stiff them

For their wages and benefits

[maxsolomon]

9. This is hard to get for a lot of us, but he was Crackin' Wise

He's trying to demonstrate how the expelled staff is just water off a duck by turning it into a joke.

At his core, he's a NYC Wise Guy - busting chops, pulling legs. He's thinks he's a fucking riot and so do his mouth-breathing voters.

[BainsBane]

14. That's how TRUMP treats them

waves a hand and never pays them.

[WinkyDink]

15. I think he might have meant SPECIFICALLY those who worked for TRUMP. That HE regarded them as

"just construction workers......"

[bdamomma]

16. there is this

thing called Karma, I hope every miserable thing he has done or think he's entitled too bites him back so hard.

He deserves pay back for what he is doing to this country and the world. I hate the man.