Opinion | 17 Trump Cupboard-Degree Appointees Criticizing Trump

We don’t take an oath to a rustic. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a faith. We don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”

The president has little or no understanding of what it means to be within the army, to struggle ethically or to be ruled by a uniform algorithm and practices.”

President Trump and different officers have repeatedly compromised our ideas in pursuit of partisan benefit and private acquire.”

Donald Trump is the primary president in my lifetime who doesn’t attempt to unite the American individuals — doesn’t even fake to attempt. As an alternative, he tries to divide us. We’re witnessing the implications of three years of this deliberate effort. We’re witnessing the implications of three years with out mature management. We are able to unite with out him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society.”

I’ve quite a lot of issues about Donald Trump. I’ve mentioned that he’s a risk to democracy. I believe the final yr, actually the previous couple of months of Donald Trump’s presidency, will appear to be the primary few months of the subsequent one if that have been to happen.”

An individual who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. An individual that has nothing however contempt for our democratic establishments, our Structure and the rule of legislation.”

I believe the occasions on the Capitol, nonetheless they occurred, have been surprising. And it was one thing that, as I discussed in my assertion, that I couldn’t put apart.”

Sadly, the actions and rhetoric following the election, particularly throughout this previous week, threaten to tarnish these and different historic legacies of this administration. The assaults on the Capitol have been an assault on our democracy and on the custom of peaceable transitions of energy that the USA of America first delivered to the world.”

Moron,” Mr. Tillerson reportedly mentioned of Mr. Trump.

It’s greater than only a bunch of papers and what massive deal is that this and so forth. Lives might be misplaced.”

I didn’t really feel he did what he wanted to do to cease what was taking place.”

It can all the time be, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re employed for the man who tried to overhaul the federal government.’”

The actual fact of the matter is he’s a consummate narcissist and he always engages in reckless conduct that places his political followers in danger and the conservative and Republican agenda in danger. … He’ll all the time put his personal curiosity and gratifying his personal ego forward of the whole lot else, together with the nation’s curiosity. There’s no query about it. … He’s like a 9-year-old, a defiant 9-year-old child, who’s all the time pushing the glass towards the sting of the desk defying his mother and father to cease him from doing it.”

By the point I left the White Home,
I used to be satisfied he was not match to be president. … I believe it’s a hazard for the USA if he will get a second time period.”

By the point I left the White Home, I used to be satisfied he was not match to be president. … I believe it’s a hazard for the USA if he will get a second time period.”

We want extra seriousness, much less noise, and leaders who’re trying ahead, not staring within the rearview mirror claiming victimhood.”

He requested me to place him over the Structure and I selected the Structure, and I all the time will.”