Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis roasted Trump after the president called him 'overrated'
President Donald Trump this week called former Defense Secretary James Mattis an “overrated” general. Now Mattis is owning it.
“I’m not just an overrated general. I am the greatest, the world’s most overrated,” Mattis said Thursday at the Al Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York.“I’m honored to be considered that by Donald Trump, because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress,” Mattis continued to laughter from the audience. “So I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals. And frankly, that sounds pretty good to me.
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have strongly condemned the move and the subsequent Turkish aggression. Democratic congressional leaders met with Trump at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the issue, but the meeting devolved into an angry confrontation involving name-calling and an early walkout by the Democrats.
When Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer cited an assessment by Mattis that the withdrawal of troops from Syria allowed ISIS to rebound, Trump declared Mattis “the world’s most overrated general” and claimed credit for defeating the militant group for himself. The remark revealed the lingering bad blood from Mattis’from the administration in December, which came in protest to an earlier plan for a military exit from Syria.
Mattis had a storied military career long before the Trump presidency, having served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a retired four-star general, he was seen as a stabilizing force among the temperamental decision making of the administration. He voiced opposition to some of Trump’s most contentious acts, including withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and escalating tensions with North Korea.
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