Scoop: Trump turns on his Interior Secretary

[grantcart]

Source: Axios

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke went “rogue,” per one source. And President Trump isn’t happy about it.

Two weeks ago, Zinke made an announcement that surprised the White House (and over Twitter, no less, after telling reporters at the Tallahassee airport): the waters around Florida would be exempt from his agency’s offshore oil and gas leasing program. Zinke’s announcement came shortly after he met with the state’s Republican governor, Rick Scott.


Read more: https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-turns-on-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-1516568558-cdd694e1-2a04-4de2-87db-450361dda65f.html

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Of course now the Carolina's, Virginia, etc. all want exceptions

Trump is going to need a BIGGER dog house.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Blue states of course will never receive the exemption.

The goal here is twofold, destroy blue states and make money.

But they forgot they werent all blue states.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. ROFL! Zinke was probably trying to curry favor with 45,

but was too dumb to realize what a can of worms he was opening up.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. If given enough time, he'll turn on just about everyone.

This is far from the last story like this one.

[KewlKat]

4. He was gonna give him some red and pink starbursts but someone beat him to it.

[dewsgirl]

5. +1

[riversedge]

6. article makes it seem like Zinke will stay in the administion......

but read the section before this. Lots of problems with this move by Zinke!



............“Is it legally fatal? No, but it’s so clumsy,” said one former Interior Department official. “It’s unforced errors and creates problems that’s got him [Zinke] tied up in knots.”

Zinke built a lot of goodwill with Trump before this mistake. Trump personally likes him, and they bonded immediately, according to sources who've watched them together. Trump admires Zinke for his service as a Navy SEAL commander, and has praised Zinke's deregulatory work. Trump even consulted Zinke about his Afghanistan war strategy.

Bottom line: Multiple sources tell me it would be a massive stretch to say this incident has ruined Zinke's relationship with Trump. There's nothing irreparable here, though the incident has damaged Zinke's standing in the administration..................

[OnlinePoker]

7. So Trump wants drilling on the Florida coast

Maybe they should start off the shores of Mar-a-Lago.

[TomCADem]

8. The Problem Is That It Did Not Go Through Trump...

...Trump just sits on his ass and does not give a shit, but if someone makes a deal, any deal, it has to framed as though Trump is the one acting like the Godfather.

[Omaha Steve]

9. UNLOCKING

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[grantcart]

10. kick