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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.Trump's U.N. envoy Nikki Haley quits; denies 2020 ambitions
By Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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cla68
If President Trump replaces Sessions with Lindsey Graham as AG, then Haley might run for his senate seat.
bass4funk
I was thinking the same thing. Sorry to see her go, amazing woman, a strong fighter for sure on the behalf of US foreign policy, loved her style. However, she did say 6 months she would retire, but she will remain in politics and support the President in 2020.
Dango bong
in the last two years my 401K has almost doubled and I have had a raise. Who in the world thinks they can challenge Trump? Are you crazy?
kawabegawa198
Great woman. John Bolton was the best though.
bass4funk
Oh, without a doubt. Bolton, the man, the legend is the best. There is speculation that he might take up the position, but it’s just pure conjecture at this point, but if he were to get the position, he’d definitely be the best one.
CrazyJoe
Remarkable how often Trump announces his "big announcements", like it is some accomplishment that another person is resigning from his cluster F of an administration.
Turnover is a smidge high in this administration.
PTownsend
She must be waiting for Tsar Vlad to decide who he'll support this time. But I'm pretty sure Vlad will stick with Trump.
Trump's doing all he can to make the US, the world's largest consumer of oil and gas (Russia's main export products), continue to remain the largest consumer, while China keeps on burning more in its race to catch up with the US.
Chip Star
Too right! One of the architects of the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan is the best choice for the UN.
theFu
If anyone ran against Trump as a Republican in 2020, I'd vote for her/him/it in the primary, provided she is over 35 and native born American.
Anyone who isn't a democrat.
Chip Star
Honest question: Do you think Trump is less harmful to the country than any democrat?
Alfie Noakes
Yet another rat jumping off the sinking ship. Paul Ryan and Haley clearly know the subpoenas will start flying soon and are making their escape.
Ah yes, the Gatestone Islamaphobic hate-merchant responsible for the deaths of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's a really good one.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-bolton-anti-muslim-bigot-hate-groups_us_5ab52bf2e4b008c9e5f6f1f9
plasticmonkey
Cult 45ers think that saying something often enough makes it true. Haley's assertion is just plain false. And a silly redefinition of the word "respect".
https://www.newsweek.com/global-respect-us-leadership-dropped-sharply-under-trump-opposite-happened-784298
Anyway, the only thing that matters to Cult 45 is that its followers continue to believe their own fantasies.
Blacklabel
So in what areas are things lacking or not going well?
Dango bong
money talks. Americans are making more spending more and more comfortable now. Good luck beating Trump. What will his opponents run on? Less jobs and more illegal aliens? Good luck.
bass4funk
Like many other Presidents. Interesting how the left THINK they know why Haley decided to leave when not even a single WH staff knew, even Kelly, not even her staff.
No, the US is definitely more respected then a laughing joke for the last 8 years of having a weak President, now being respected doesn't necessarily mean you are liked. This admin. to its credit is not concerned about that nor should it be, but the last admin. desperately wanted to be loved and that in itself is a fantasy. Haley at least put nations on notice and made sure everyone knew the days of taking advantage of the US was coming to a screeching halt.
PTownsend
Did Trump's spooks find evidence Ms Haley wrote the NYTimes editorial critical of him?
Laguna
She's quite intelligent and likely figured now was time to distance herself from him. His brand is damaging for her future.
1glenn
I see some problems with Ms. Haley running for President, although I think she would be a huge improvement over Trump.
Many of the racists in the Republican base will never back a minority such as herself.
She needs the backing of people who are traditionally open to getting along with minorities, namely Democrats, but her right-wing views, and her recent endorsement of Kavanaugh, will be a problem in that regard.
Chip Star
Exactly! I read this o bout super-secret conservative website where all administration officials post updates. It's like a FB for conservatives. MAGMA!
Totally! I wish libs would stop living in the past and accept reality, Obama is no longer president, but the left can't stop themselves from mentioning him at every turn. It's about President Donald J. Trump and how he virtually built the country from scratch.
Trump 2020!
bass4funk
No, because if she thought that she would have never even taken the job to begin with. Unlike most liberals, the one thing about Haley, she's very direct and opinionated. She didn't like the President in the beginning, but later hit a middle ground, she could have easily said, No, but there were a lot of foreign issues that they shared a common ground on.
Toasted Heretic
Trump caught unawares on this, despite his denials.
People talking about how much money they're making today. But meanwhile the streets are filling with the casualties of their wealth.
Republican supporters are undoubtedly vulgar and self-obsessed, but even they'd surely baulk at the nepotism should Kushner or Ivanka be appointed as replacements for Haley?
Chip Star
Couldn't agree more. The best way to demonstrate someone's character is by unnecessarily comparing them to a lib.
Amen.
theFu
Any Democrat? No. Just all that have been put up for President in my lifetime.
Toasted Heretic
Unlike the right, who get all their secret info from FBI and Washington contacts. And then crow about it online.
Haley's bullying about taking names delighted the pro-Israel lobby but even that can't obscure the fact that she went against Trump on several occasions. Criticizing Russia on Syria and Ukraine, speaking out against the UK chemical attacks and announcing sanctions on the meddling state. She also spoke out on human rights issues.
She is right wing, by any standards but clever enough to put a bit of distance between herself and the soon to be disgraced fake President.
Chip Star
Appreciate the honest answer. It seems a stretch to me that Trump is less harmful than Bill Clinton or Obama. I'd be curious to hear your take.
bass4funk
Everyone was caught off guard, even her own staff.
Been like that for 2,500 years
And the left more so.
Don't worry, Ivanka made a statement this morning, she's not interested in the position.
bass4funk
What? Ok....lol
And that is ok, debunks the lefts argument that everyone under Trump falls in lockstep like most Democrats. She has always been candid and direct.
Thank God. Dana Powell might replace her and she is pound for pound just as good and stern as Haley. I'm loving' it!
2024 is soon? Ok....
plasticmonkey
Yes it does.
Trump and his policies are disliked and disrespected because they are foolish. Period.
yamada1043
Jared Kushner, who doesn’t belong in the White House, may be considered as the replacement of Nikki Haley at the United Nations ... only when hell freezes over.
ulysses
Lol, Trump said she told him 6 months ago, so is Honest Trumo lying....
Haley is a strong and intelligent woman and obviously has Presidential ambitions. Being associated with a shipwreck of an administration, having to defend its lies day after day probably is not the right way to that throne.
Most of the people associated with this administration will be pariahs in a few years and anyone who has ambition should jump ship fast.
Blacklabel
Up to 11 downvotes and no one can tell me what things are not going well or are lacking. So it’s basically just let’s manufacture some outrage.
hes gonna replace Haley with Kuschner! Gonna replace her with Ivanka! Kanye! All of the supposed problems are just speculation. U.N. ambassador isn’t a lifetime appointment she just wants to do something else, or spend some time doing nothing at all.
Matt Hartwell
Would be interesting to see her run off against a Democrat female candidate. Could be an ace card.
There are an awful lot of people that support Trumps policies but don't support Trump.
Perhaps a majority of Republicans fit that category and a number of independents.
bass4funk
No, it doesn't, the last President went on an apology tour through the MidEast bowing and saying "sorry" and appeasing our enemies and that didn't stop our ambassador from being murdered, didn't stop the Taliban and it certainly didn't stop Assad, didn't stop Putin in Crimea.
Ahhh, but they fear him, they know where their bread is buttered and they know if they start something Trump is crazy enough to fully engage any adversary and take the fight to them using the full US military might. So yes, they do respect the President in that they know this man will go to any length to keep our nation and our allies lives safe.
plasticmonkey
That's your narrative, but it's completely false. It's a narrative for people who can't deal with facts or complex realities.
Fair enough, but what's that got to do with the definition of respect?
That's your definition of respect?
plasticmonkey
This man doesn't have a clue what he's doing. He's just a dumb guy who likes to talk about himself. Very few people in the world like or respect that.
Haley knows this, but can't say it. It's just her way of jumping ship to fight another day.
Chip Star
Which is exactly how Trump got Kim to the negotiating table. Instead of using the full light of the military, he canceled the war games. What a genius!
Too right! God bless America and Trump! This is demonstrated by Trunp's completely coherent international policy. Nothing sends the single that you can't mess with the US or its allies more than disparaging those allies and bending over for Putin! Cold hard facts that us conservatives understand.
Chip Star
Trump said she had told him some six months ago that she was thinking of leaving by the end the year "to take a little time off."
Someone is incorrect here.
Chip Star
A coherent foreign policy, relations with our long-time allies, divisions within the country . . .
Laguna
I used to work in a job that involved much photography, and I learned, when looking at a woman, to focus on a dime-sized spot on the forehead. What is Trump looking at?
Chip Star
Another example of libs constantly bringing up Obama. There is zero evidence that the current bull market started under Obama. There was no stock market before Trump! MAGMA 2020!
Goodlucktoyou
She is a liar. Just like in the UN. Kushner will get her job, trump will be impeached and she will be the first woman president.
bass4funk
No, that’s not my narrative, that’s what happened, I didn’t create the history or killed these people. Our ambassador, Gaddafi, Assad, all real, all happened after the apology tour.
Most Presidents don’t that’s why they have advisors they’re really clueless except for Roosevelt, HW Bush.
That would be half of Congress, not just the President. Most people like talking about themselves, it’s ok to have confidence and love yourself.
Well, you and I don’t know that, but if she felt that way and hated the Presidents guts, she never had to serve, she could’ve just simply walked away, she didn’t, she stayed, so as an independent woman that is direct and has No shame of telling it like it is, i think there was another reason, I doubt if it had to do with the President.
Chip Star
So true. That's not the only thing that happened after Obama engaged in diplomacy. The Deep State formed and the upper echelons of the FBI decided to become corrupt. Trump will straighten everything out.
Roosevelt knew what he was doing with all those government jobs.
Raw Beer
I could never stand her. I'm glad she's leaving.
prossnip42
Yeah, sure bass4funk, Bolton would be the perfect choice. You know with his failure in Iraq, continued failure in Afghanistan and at some point even threatening to invade Iran, i can't think of anyone more perfect for the job. While you're at it, i think you might want to pick Richard Spencer as a foreign policy minister
smithinjapan
Another one bites the dust. Love how she had to time it so that it's between the alcoholic and sexual predator headed for confirmation and the upcoming whomping Dems are going to commit on Republicans in the midterms. Some people are mad at her because she ruined their Kavanaugh "morning after" feeling.
Blacklabel
Can’t get any more generic than that. So in other words things are great.
smithinjapan
Blacklabel: "Can’t get any more generic than that. So in other words things are great."
Relations with the US have never, ever been worse. But hey, you probably would also like to kiss the butt of the NK leader, too, right? or be in the pocket of Putin as his nation hacks your elections and you alienate yourself from allies. Hahaha... "great" indeed. Trumpers aren't known for their logic, though.
Chip Star
Black: What's wrong?
Me: These things.
Black: Too generic.
See the shifting goal posts?
Blacklabel
If you would give me actual issues caused by your genetic complaints it would help.
relations with allies? Ok which one? And what significant problem has been caused and how does it negatively affect citizens of America?
Madverts
Rats leaving the shrieking ship.
It’s coming...
plasticmonkey
Sorry, but Obama taking an "apology tour" is a right wing narrative. And it's fiction.
All previous presidents concerned themselves with detailed briefings and spent considerable time reading. Trump is the first POTUS to lack any interest in these things. That is a fact. He needs briefing handouts that are no longer than one page, contain no more than three bullet points, and include positive references to Trump himself.
Not to the exclusion of almost everything else. Trump has got a serious narcissistic disorder.
bass4funk
Actually, it’s not. Videos can found on YouTube of him apologizing, weak and deeply embarrassing and still so many Americans killed and for what? Wasted time.
In the beginning this was true, but not now, he’s getting better at it like most Presidents
Which he does receive detailed briefings.
So do a lot of people, the last president and the woman with the pantsuits as well, even the creepy porn lawyer loves talking about himself.....a lot.
Serrano
"her 18-month stint at the United Nations..."
That's a long time to have to put up with dealing with those people.
"and said she would stay on until the end of the year."
Wow, Haley's a real trooper!
Crazy: "Turnover is a smidge high in this administration."
Here's a fact you're gonna like, Crazy: Trump has already got way more done for the American people in less than 2 years than Obama did in eight.
Sneezy
No, there aren’t.
plasticmonkey
Yeah. An edited narrative.
Please provide a link to evidence showing Trump has upped his interest and skill in digesting reports about what's going on. I haven't seen any, but I would sure love to rest assured that the president of the most powerful country in the world gives a rats about the office he inhabits.
False. These people have never had to rely on such cheap tricks as pulling yourself off in public to show how wonderful you are. Obama, Clinton, and Avenatti have legitimate ideas, not just egos.
Serrano
Madverts: "Rats leaving the shrieking ship."
Dontcha mean sinking ship? Or is it shrieking, sinking ship? haha Dream on.
Nikki is a total babe and smart! If she runs and is nominated for president in 2024, it doesn't matter who the Democrats nominate, they could nominate Superman or Wonder Woman and Nikki would still crush them.
Chip Star
The evidence for this is found at the following links:
Chip Star
Absolutely. Those videos show Obama grovelling. These videos can be found on the super-secret conservative websites that only bonafide conservatives like Bass and I have access to. Sorry, no libs allowed. ROFL! Smh. Oh my . . .
Totally. You can find the evidence of Trump getting better at having an attention span and not needing pictures here: and here:
Other presidents needed video briefings with pretty colors in the beginnings of their terms, so Trump is way ahead with his children's picture book briefings. MAGA!!!!
plasticmonkey
Peter Navarro digs Trump = evidence of Trump’s greatness
1glenn
Ms. Haley's biggest strength would appear to be her willingness to repeat Trump's lies with a straight face.
Serrano
Class, poise, guts, style, intelligence. We'll see more of her.
@1glenn Um, what Trump lies did Ms. Haley repeat?
Balakrishnan Gurumurti
certainly she is much more smarter than Trump. she knows how to make friends by being in UN, wonderful girl indeed.
bass4funk
A body double from SNL?
I'm not a spy and don't have that kind of security clearance to verify that.
I haven't seen any as well, but you have your opinion and I respect that and the President has as much respect for the office as the other Presidents except 44, now it may not be the style and form we are used to, but I'm ok with that, we never had a President that fought back against his rivals whether they be on foreign or domestic soil.
Sorry, the guy from Chicago, Buba and the creepy porn lawyer have all when combined egos bigger than the sun. Their ideas aren't much to brag about either, one screwed up healthcare, the other had an extra marital affair in the Oval office and the other one represents failed adult video star and give them a mic and they will give Trump a run for his money,
Chip Star
This about Trump's briefings:
followed by this when challenged for evidence to support the above:
means there is no evidence for the original assertion.
If you cannot provide evidence for a wild assertion, that means you don't have any support for the wild assertion.
This is the MO of certain posters. Make baseless claims and then obfuscate or deflect when challenged. Very sophisticated critical discourse skills.
Admitting the original assertion was completely baseless. Progress. However, it is not an opinion that Trump needs short briefings that are about him, it's a fact.
This statement has no basis in reality. Love that we can't get through a single post without unnecessary references to libs or Obama. This is evidence that certain posters are only interested in stirring the pot on these threads. Sophisticated.
Almost every president has fought back against rivals, both foreign and domestic. They just did it with class and sophistication, which means Trump supporters can't understand it because they can't understand anything more complicated than pettiness and tantrums.
bass4funk
No, when you see the video of President bowing and hearing him speak it, video doesn’t lie, even Spielberg can’t use his magic to change that.
As ever other President, that’s why they have advisors.
No, you just don’t want to hear it because you’re hatred of everything Trump prohibits you from seeing that other Presidents had the same traits, with the exception Trump fights back and refuses to cow tail to the norms of the Washington Kabale.
Doesn’t matter how you did it as long as you do it. You like it classy, I like it in your face.
And the same goes for the DTS haters, they can’t and will never understand their tendency towards violence and mob rule to further their agenda.
starpunk
She's been just a mouthpiece for that obnoxious jackass and she decided it's time to quit before things get worse. Nikki may be tired of being Spankee Boy on's dumb puppet. She already got reamed by her stupid dumbbell boss earlier this year.
She's a babe alright and she wants to show she's smarter than that bimbo Sarah Palin.
She got egg on her face over the Russia issue - her boss is a butt-kissing traitor and he embarrassed her big time. Wait until her kiss-and-tell book comes out around Christmastime or early next year.
They would back her only if she were subservient to their racist agenda - a lap dog.
Those are plusses on her part. That shows that she is much smarter than that idiot Sarah Palin, who has practically NO admiration from smart American women and doesn't deserve it.
We know what the orange Caligula thinks about women. He brags about abusing and assaulting them like a 7th grader - and maybe he's thinking his uncouth lust and sulking because she won't succumb to him.
Chip Star
We were talking about your baseless assertion that Trump has gotten better about briefings. Keep up.
After an attempt to obfuscate, we are back on topic. No other president has needed single page briefings with references to himself and lots of pictures. Smh.
My dislike of Trump has nothing to do with you making assertions that you know have no basis in reality in order to stir the pot instead of add to the conversation.
When considering the strategic impacts of your strategy, it does matter. But thanks for admitting that other presidents have fought back against rivals. That was a quick about-face. This is more evidence that you are stirring the pot instead of adding to the conversation.
The issue was how Trump supporters cannot understand eloquence and sophistication. Stay on point. You did concede that issue to me with this hyperbolic response.
Violence and mob rule. You're describing Teump's rallies and his supporters hate protests. ROFL.
starpunk
Maybe soon Nikki will be like Omarosa and spill the beans. Maybe she got tired of being a token minority or a token woman for this obnoxious orangutan. Perhaps Trumptraitor threw around a few racial slur words for India subcontinent type people (and I don't think I really know any offhand) - but you never know. Donnydouche is an obvious racist, as we all know.
Sneezy
Once again, you misunderstood Chip. But also: let’s have a link to that video or Obama bowing and apologising. Hint: it doesn’t exist. The Washington Post described the “apology tour” narrative as a bare-faced lie.
Chip Star
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/obama-quotes/