Here comes Donald Trump’s deranged meltdown about Nikki Haley
It’s still unclear why South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley chose to throw away a promising career in politics by taking the UN Ambassador job in the Donald Trump administration, a move which has predictably destroyed her credibility. Haley has spent 2017 alternating between lying on Trump’s behalf and trying to walk back his most dangerously deranged foreign policy ideas, and she’s become a national punchline along with the rest of Trump’s advisers. Now it turns out Trump is outraged at Haley because she dared to say something diplomatic.
Over the weekend, Nikki Haley appeared on television and attempted to dishonestly justify Trump’s blatant attempt at starting a Middle East war by moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Predictably, Haley was asked whether she believes the women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Haley diplomatically responded that “They should be heard” and that “they have every right to speak up.” She didn’t say whether or not she believes Trump’s accusers, but what she did say was enough to set Trump off.
Trump became “infuriated” at Haley once he learned of her remarks, according to an Associated Press report (link). We’re now facing a finite number of possibilities as far as what comes next. Trump could fire her. He could simply choose to publicly humiliate her, either by attacking her on Twitter (as he’s done to his Attorney General Jeff Sessions), or by leaking embarrassing things about her (as he’s done to his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson). Trump could also decide to simply tweet that the story is “fake news” and then randomly blame it all on a black reporter, as he did on Sunday when he responded to a New York Times report by attacking CNN reporter Don Lemon, who had nothing to do with the story.
In any case, Donald Trump is now feuding with his own UN Ambassador, Attorney General, and Secretary of State. This comes amid too many high profile resignations in the unstable Trump White House to even bother listing.
