Trump Fires National Security Adviser McMaster, Brings In Ultra-Hawk John Bolton

Donald Trump

There is NO CHAOS at the White House! Got that?

But - that aside, we began the day with Donald Trump's lead lawyer quitting his team for the special counsel's investigation.

Then, the Trumpster's first Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said goodbye to the state department.

Now, Trump has fired his national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and has announced ultra-hawk former U. N. Ambassador John Bolton.

From The New York Times:

Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the battle-tested Army officer tapped as President Trump’s national security adviser last year to stabilize a turbulent foreign policy operation, will resign and be replaced by John R. Bolton, a hard-line former United States ambassador to the United Nations, White House officials said Thursday.

General McMaster will retire from the military, the officials said. He has been discussing his departure with President Trump for several weeks, they said, but decided to speed up his departure, in part because questions about his status were casting a shadow over his conversations with foreign officials.

The officials also said that Mr. Trump wanted to fill out his national security team before his meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un. He replaced Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson with the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, last week.

Voters in 2016 that went for Trump voted for him, in part, because of Trump's hard line opposition to the Iraq War. And now, he brings in the ultra-hawkish John Bolton who still thinks the Iraq War was a good idea.

This marks Trump's 3rd national security adviser in only 14 months in office.

Btw - the stock market crashed 724 points over Trump's proposed $60 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports.

But, there's NO CHAOS in the White House. Got that?

Just some of the reactions from the Twitterverse:

When NYT reported recently Trump was going to change his legal team, he denied it on Twitter. When we reported last week he was changing his national security adviser, Sarah Sanders denied. He did both about a week later after the denials.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 22, 2018

Will Trump announce Kelly’s departure around the time #StormyDaniels is on #60Minutes this Sunday? I wouldn’t put it past him. Today’s replacement of McMaster with Bolton paves the path. Remember that Kelly resisted bringing Bolton into the administration.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 22, 2018

The betrayal has occurred. Iraq War hawk John Bolton is joining the Trump Administration as national security adviser after Trump got elected asserting how dumb the Iraq War was over and over https://t.co/BkCuQcNh3r

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) March 22, 2018

"can i join u in the bomb shelter HR"
"sure rex"
"how about me HR"
"sure reince"
"cool can i com..."
"fuk u jared" pic.twitter.com/6HOzk7mnEb

— darth™ (@darth) March 22, 2018