President Trump Suggests He Fired Mattis

Ugggggh. Can we please not do this?

President Trump just held a cabinet meeting, and he kinda sorta suggested that he fired Mattis.

“As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I,” Trump remarked.

It seemed pretty mutual to me.

“What’s he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” he continued.

“I think I would’ve been a good general, but who knows,” he added.

Trump says his generals did not do a good job in Afghanistan and suggests Mattis failed him. pic.twitter.com/oe8MQZev29

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 2, 2019

Consider this one of those moments that I wish Trump would’ve said less. Much less.

More from the meeting:

Trump says if Romney fought Obama like he fought him, Romney would've been president. "I hope he's gonna be a team player." https://t.co/nRDvDHphpz pic.twitter.com/jGPFkL61ED

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 2, 2019

President Trump says he would "rather not say" if he's willing to accept less than $5 billion for his border wall to end the government shutdown https://t.co/nhksVfeDer pic.twitter.com/lsPVNV2Jj7

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 2, 2019

NEW: Pres. Trump says he got a "great letter" from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We really established a very good relationship… we'll probably now have another meeting. He'd like to meet, I'd like to meet." https://t.co/rKFmstFG7Y pic.twitter.com/LA0W1y0NXm

— ABC News (@ABC) January 2, 2019

Trump invokes McCain on Obamacare: "John McCain voted against it, after campaigning for many years. He went thumbs down and that was the end of that." https://t.co/MiFyhxQuTA pic.twitter.com/n1o5MvsAJp

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 2, 2019

Annnnnnnnnnnnd we’re off to a bumpy start.