Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump

Wow, an honest article. Tells me a lot that it has been posted for 4 hours with not one comment.

Mattis has been able to get Trump to change his mind and gotten better solutions, so I expect that to continue.

It's got to be hard working for an idiot.

Eventually Mattis will have to admit to himself that he's enabling a psycho. I hope he's still able to get out by then with some shreds of his integrity intact.

BlacklabelToday  10:27 am JST

Wow, an honest article.

You approve of the content so it must be honest, mustn't it. It's a whole different story when you read anything a bit less palatable though.

Mattis has been able to get Trump to change his mind and gotten better solutions, so I expect that to continue.

Why would the man who is "better at the military" than anyone and understands military issues better than any general who ever lived need to change his mind?

You approve of the content so it must be honest, mustn't it. It's a whole different story when you read anything a bit less palatable though.

It is factual and direct from the source with his actual comments quoted. None of this anonymous sources say that maybe this or maybe that could be true. Actual journalism, they asked the person involved if it was true what was being said and he said no.

Why would the man who is "better at the military" than anyone and understands military issues better than any general who ever lived need to change his mind?

Because he has learned that he in fact is NOT 'better at military' than James Mattis.

Black,

On the other hand, the two men's comments were diametrically opposed to each other, as clearly quoted in the article. So it's not surprising that this gets reported factually. What else could happen?

The media was reporting yesterday from anonymous sources that Mattis was at odds with Trump and was purposely undermining him.

Suddenly today, they accept that no such thing is true after Mattis directly tells them such.

The two entirely contradictory comments were quoted, as they are above. That's all. Nothing has changed.

Mattis must have panicked, thinking Trump would fly into a tizzy for being immediately and directly contradicted like that. But luckily for Mattis, Trump is the one person in the world gullible enough to fall for a simple denial of the facts. Perhaps because denials of the facts are what Trump does the way other people breathe air, he sometimes fails to notice when others follow his example.

Its all fine, such a huge deal was made out of this topic just yesterday now it turned into a big pile of nothing.

I am glad for that because Mattis is one of the key members of the whole administration.

A direct contradiction by a key member of the whole administration of the president's words is, as you say, a huge deal. It remains one despite Mattis' feeble attempt to deny it. I will agree with you though that Mattis generally knows what he is talking about, which makes him a rarity indeed in team Trump.

It remains one despite Mattis' feeble attempt to deny it.

feeble attempt? I believe he called it ludicrous and that it someone's rich imagination and that in no way is it the way it was described. What else can he say to prove that the anonymous sources sowing discontent were wrong (again)?

No sources involved. Each man's words plainly reported. Perhaps you have not read the above article.

BlacklabelSep. 1  12:22 pm JST

"You approve of the content so it must be honest, mustn't it. It's a whole different story when you read anything a bit less palatable though."

It is factual and direct from the source with his actual comments quoted. None of this anonymous sources say that maybe this or maybe that could be true. Actual journalism, they asked the person involved if it was true what was being said and he said no.

So are we to infer from this that whenever anonymous sources are cited, especially if it's anything to do with allegations about Donald Trump, we should just assume the media is making it all up? But if they're actual comments direct from the source they must be true, just like... well, what Bill Clinton said about not having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky?

Anyway, it may be on record that Mattis denied having a bad relationship with Trump. What the relationship is actually like is still left open to conjecture.

"Why would the man who is "better at the military" than anyone and understands military issues better than any general who ever lived need to change his mind?"

Because he has learned that he in fact is NOT 'better at military' than James Mattis.

So all that stuff he came out with about his own military genius was just a lot of rubbish, then. Like everything else he says.