CNN went head over heels for him after this…
Former Defense Secretary and General James Mattis tore into President Donald Trump in a speaking engagement after the president called him overrated.
Mattis did not hold back on his former employer and the current president at the Al Smith Dinner in new York on Thursday.
And CNN host Don Lemon, in his typical fashion, loved it when he showed the clip of the speech on CNN where Mattis took many shots at the president.
Rush Transcript:
“I do stand before you, as was noted here, really having achieved greatness. I mean, I’m not just an overrated general, I am the greatest, the world’s most, overrated.
“And this in no small part — I will tell you, I owe New York. I owe New York for this because, Senator Schumer, have I thanked you for bringing my name up in a rather contentious meeting in Washington where this grew out of?
“So I would just tell you, too, that I’m honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress.
“So I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals. And, frankly, that sounds pretty good to me. And you do have to admit that between me and Meryl, at least we’ve had some victories.
“And some of you were kind during the reception and asked me, you know, if this bothered me to have been rated this way based on what Donald Trump said.
“I said, of course, not. I’d earned my spurs on the battlefield, martin, as you pointed out, Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor.
“So, not in the least put out by it, and I think the only person in the military that Mr. Trump doesn’t think is overrated is who you pointed out, Martin, that’s Colonel Sanders.
“But none of this can diminish the honor that I feel tonight of being here among all of you wonderful folks in this great all-American city.
“I started working in Washington, D.C., that I realized how easy I had it overseas in a combat zone. Now, this won’t be news to anyone in this room, but we’re going through a tough highly partisan time here in our country.
“And I’ve never been much for partisanship. I’ve always believed in bipartisan and the greatness of our country lies in teamwork. And my record on bipartisanship is clear, after all, I’ve reportedly been fired by presidents of both parties.
“I will stand on that record. As many of you know, Donald Trump nicknamed me ‘Mad dog,’ but these days I’ve turned over a Kinder, gentler leaf. I like to think of myself as less of a ‘Mad dog’ and more of an emotional support animal, and that’s really great because now the airlines let me fly for free.
“It’s been a year since I left the administration. The recovery process is going well. The counselor says I’ll graduate soon.
“A year is — according to white House time — about 9,000 hours of executive time or 1,800 holes of golf. And that’s given me some time to reflect and to think about what our country and where — about our country and where it’s going, so I turn to history for we’ve been through tough times in the past in our country and often in history,
“I have found the way forward. It’s tempting, this evening, to look back exactly a century to 1919, the year that Alfred Emanuel Smith first took office as governor of New York. His nomination as the democratic Party’s candidate for president, first Roman catholic to be nominated for that office by a major party, nine years ahead. It was in many ways a troubled time.
“Anti-immigrant fervor ran high. Political corruption made national headlines. The glitz of the jazz age was real, yet working and living conditions for much of the American population were abysmal.
“The country was enjoying an economic boom but a storm was on the horizon. ‘No,’ Lincoln went on, ‘It was not the foreign aggressor we must fear. It was corrosion from within.
“’The rot, the viciousness, the lassitude, the ignorance. Anarchy is one potential consequence of all this. Another is the rise of an ambitious leader unfettered by conscience or precedent or decency who would make themselves supreme. If destruction be our lot,’ Lincoln warned,
“’We must, ourselves, be its author and finisher.’” I think often of Abraham Lincoln’s speech because it embodies both our greatest hopes and our darkest fears.
“Today, in our own time, we need only look around us. For decades, our political conduct has been woeful and a source of national paralysis. We have supplanted trust and empathy with suspicion and contempt. We have scorched or opponents with language that precludes compromise. We have brushed aside the possibility that persons with whom we disagree might actually sometimes be right.
“We owe a debt to all who have fought for liberty including those who tonight serve in the far corners of our planet. Among them, the American men and women supporting our Kurdish allies.
“And I would note that the phrase, ‘All who have fought for liberty’ also include the generations of ordinary citizens who have embodied our national ideals and passed them down.
“In Springfield, Lincoln invoked Biblical language to describe how the power of this common spirit protects our nation. He said as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, your eminence, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
“So, ladies and gentlemen, with malice for none and charity for all, let us restore trust in one another. Thank you very much.”
Src: The Federalist Papers
PEOPLE IN D.C. ARE SO JUVENILE AND PETTY. ANOTHER AH HAVING TO ‘GET EVEN’, JUST LIKE A CHILD ON THE PLAYGROUND. IT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME. WHEN WILL WE HAVE ADULTS – NOT CORRUPTED ADULTS – IN GOVERNMENT? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ HATE AND WISH WE COULD STOP PAYING TAXES, AND JUST FIRE THEM ALL AND START OVER AGAIN. IT’S AMAZING TO ME HOW EGO IS SO APPARENT IN POLITICS. NO TALENT. EGO.
GOD BLESS OUR TRUE LEADER, PRESIDENT TRUMP. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
I only remember that General Mattis was one of
Obama’s Generals & that worried me & many others,
That General Mattis was an Obama Plant. Sadly, that
seems to be Confirmed by the General, Himself.
President Trump was the Democrat General’s
President, Too, but Mattis was not able to cast Politics
aside, to serve his Own President. So Be It, Too Many Political Generals are floating around, servicing those who would do harm to Our Beautiful Country.
another sore looser ?
When work with PRESIDENT ,every thing is OK and after go start criticizing.
SAD.Adult people .
the biggest mistake my president trump made was not to axe all the obama implants on the first day of business. THE FIRST TWO WORDS SPOKEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN RESIGNATION PLEASE.
BRIAN KILJOY IS THE BRAVEST MAN I KNOW. HE SAVED MY LIFE IN KOREA. SCENE FROM THE MACHURIAN CANDIDATE. MY TV IS ON FOX 24-7. I SEE THE CONSERVATIVE PURGE AND SUBTLE SABOTAGE. OREILLY ‘S SINS WERE PAID FOR 11 YEARS BEFORE THEY NUKED HIM .HOWARD KURTZ BROKE THE NEWS ONE WEEK BEFORE IT WAS OFFICIAL. I NO LONGER WATCH CAVUTO AND GASSY GASPERINO. I WISH I HAD ONE AMERICA NEWS. I REFUSE TO WATCH THE COMMUNIST NUT NETWORK CNN. BUT I SEE FIX NEWS TRAINING TO BE CNN ON WEEKENDS. HOW QUICK THE TALKING HEADS ARE TO JUMP ON TRUMP’S SYRIA DECISION AND HAVE NOT WAITED TO SEE THE REAL PLAN.
BASED ON THE TEXAS RALLY I SEE TRUMP GETTING 70% OF THE POPULAR VOTE AND ALL THE ELECTRICAL VOLTS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BITING THEIR TONGUE AND SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE PARTY OF DRUGS AND DEATH, THE PARTY OF NO GOD, NO COUNTRY, NO FLAG, NO KIDS. THEIR MATH IS LONG DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY. A UNITED STATES IS NOT IN THEIR COMMUNIST FORECAST. 38% OF BLACK MALES ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP. GOSPEL BLACKS VOTE FOR TRUMP. LATINO FAMILIES ARE SWINGING OVER TO EL TRUMPO. ON NOVEMBER THIRD 2020. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL UNITE AND VOTE THEIR WALLET WITH THE MAN WHO MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THE MAN WHO UNITES THE COUNTRY. THE PRESIDENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE.
VIVA EL TRUMPO, VIVA CRISTO REY. SPIRIT OF AMERICA PARTY RADIO SHOW ON YOU TUBE ABUTOM.
WATCHING FOX I SAW CLIPS OF FACE BOOK’S ZUCKERBERG SPEAKING AT GEORGETOWN. A SUPPOSEDLY CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. REMEMBER THE DEMOCRAT STUDENT WHO SUED TO GET A CONDOM DISPENSER OVER HER HEADBOARD. I NOTICED THE STAIN GLASS WINDOWS HAD NO SAINTS IN THEM. NO CATHOLIC SYMBOLS. I WONDERED IF THEY USED TO HAVE THEM. NEXT QUESTION WHO SANITIZED IT, WHEN AND WHY?
I ALSO SAW THE PRESS INTERVIEWING MULVANEY. THE ENTIRE PRESS CORP IS ANTI TRUMP. WHY BOTHER TO HAVE A PRESS CORPS?
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/spiritofamericapartybook/2019/10/17/democrat-debate-and-the-winner-is-trump
where was this idiot ever on the battlefield that’s what I would like the news
Mattis is just a part of the Military Complex which wants to run the country
themselves. They pull a lot of the strings of the CIA, FBI, NSA, on and on.
Mattis just wants us spread all over the world. Well, where are the other
countries? We are not everyones police force. Is this how the Defense Department
can get more money? They can demand more funds since they have to have
our soldiers bunkered all over the world. Really, Mattis just needs to keep quiet.
How is this throwing Trump under the bus? A Mendacious Mulatto Gay TDS Host (Don Lemon) speaks to Retired General Mattis – and Mattis talks about his pursuit on non-patrtisanship and being fired by several presidents and like Trump likes Lincoln also.
This is a nothing burger story.
Another story with false headlines? I must have missed where he said really bad things about Trump?
“General” Mattis??? If that far=left creep is a general then I am a Marshal.