{"id":177473,"date":"2019-09-10T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/10\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T23:49:00","slug":"dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/10\/dont-let-the-door-hit-your-butt-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Door Hit Your Butt on the Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>John Bolton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-fires-bolton-as-national-security-adviser-saying-he-disagreed-strongly-with-many-of-his-suggestions\/2019\/09\/10\/13409e2c-d3b9-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html\">just got fired<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>He should never been hired in the first place; he&#8217;s so crazy that he makes Trump look sane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump announced Tuesday that John Bolton was no longer his national security adviser, ending a stormy tenure marked by widening rifts between an unorthodox president seeking a foreign policy victory and an irascible foreign policy hawk who had been deeply skeptical of much of the president\u2019s agenda. <\/p>\n<p>Trump disclosed the departure in a terse Twitter message, saying he would name a replacement as early as next week. Potential candidates include at least two conservative foreign policy commentators who have appeared on Fox News, where Bolton\u2019s fierce attacks on Democrats endeared him to Trump nearly two years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The appeal didn\u2019t last, however, as Bolton\u2019s opposition to elements of Trump\u2019s approach on North Korea, Iran and Afghanistan, among other issues, put him at odds with his boss and other advisers. Trump also largely blamed his third national security adviser for overselling the strength of Venezuela\u2019s political opposition earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1171452880055746560\">Trump said on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cI asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A pity that this could not be settled in a cage match with flame throwers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton just got fired. He should never been hired in the first place; he&#8217;s so crazy that he makes Trump look sane: President Trump announced Tuesday that John Bolton was no longer his national security adviser, ending a stormy tenure marked by widening rifts between an unorthodox president seeking a foreign policy victory and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,450,588,379,541,454],"class_list":["post-177473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-employment","tag-fail","tag-military","tag-security","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}