7/7/19: We learn today, that leaked emails from Sir Kim Darroch, ambassador from the United Kingdom to the United States, paint a less-than flattering picture of President Trump.
As the BBC explains:
In a message sent last month, Sir Kim branded US policy on Iran
as “incoherent, chaotic”.
Mr Trump’s publicly stated reason for
calling off an airstrike against Tehran with 10 minutes to go - that it
would cause 150 casualties – “doesn’t stand up”, Sir Kim said.
Sir Kim said it was “unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon” because “this is a divided administration”.
“Pretend you were talking to a seven-year-old.”
Ambassador Darroch’s files cover the period since the Inauguration, up to the current day. Early on, he warned 10 Downing Street that media reports of “vicious infighting and chaos” in the White House were “mostly true,” describing them as “knife fights” in a “deeply dysfunctional environment.” The crew at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he warned, was “clumsy and inept.”
As for allegations that “dodgy Russians” helped Trump win, he warned, “the worst cannot be ruled out [emphasis added].”
He also warned the home government, “I don’t think this administration will ever look competent.”
Sir Kim was saying
what most open-eyed observers have been saying since Trump took charge. Trump,
he told superiors, fills his speeches with “false claims and invented
statistics.” If you wished to talk to him, you had to pretend you were
talking to a seven-year-old. “You need to start
praising him for something that he’s done recently,” the Ambassador advised.
“You need whenever possible to present them [policy suggestions] as wins for
him.” In talking to Trump, it was important to keep points “simple” and avoid
stirring him up. “For a man who has risen to the highest office on the planet,”
Darroch explained, “President Trump radiates insecurity.”
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