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AlterNet / Robert Reich: What the past week also reveals about the Trump team's utter incompetence
AlterNet / Robert Reich - What the past week also reveals about the Trump team's utter incompetence
Robert Reich
March 30, 2025
The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness.
But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime.
Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his depth in dealing with world crises,” and condemns the administration for thinking “it can bully its way through anything by shouting Fake News.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
During the ensuing uproar, Witkoff goes off the deep end, telling Tucker Carlson that Vladimir Putin is “straight up” and not a “bad guy,” claiming he’s “100 percent” certain Russia “doesn’t want to overrun Europe,” and embracing Russia’s claim that people in the seized Ukrainian territory “want to be under Russian rule.”
/snip
Robert Reich
March 30, 2025
The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness.
But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime.
Even The Wall Street Journal criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his depth in dealing with world crises,” and condemns the administration for thinking “it can bully its way through anything by shouting Fake News.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
During the ensuing uproar, Witkoff goes off the deep end, telling Tucker Carlson that Vladimir Putin is “straight up” and not a “bad guy,” claiming he’s “100 percent” certain Russia “doesn’t want to overrun Europe,” and embracing Russia’s claim that people in the seized Ukrainian territory “want to be under Russian rule.”
/snip