Outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley admitted during an interview with the “Today” show that during her tenure at the U.N., she used Trump’s “unpredictable” nature to her advantage.
“If I needed to pick up the phone and say, ‘This is what I’m going to do,’ or, ‘are you good with this?’ We kind of partnered in that,” she said. “And so he would, like, ratchet up the rhetoric and and then I’d go back to the ambassadors and say: ‘You know, he’s pretty upset. I can’t promise you what he’s going to do or not, but I can tell you if we do these sanctions, it will keep him from going too far.'”
NBC’s Craig Melvin asked if their partnership was similar to a game of “good cop, bad cop.”
“I was trying to get the job done, and I got the job done by being truthful, but also by letting him be unpredictable and not showing our cards,” she said.
Watch the full interview below:
Watch outgoing U.S. ambassador to the UN @nikkihaley’s full exclusive interview with @craigmelvin about Khashoggi’s murder, working with President Trump and what the future holds for her. pic.twitter.com/JXqrFDhAJo
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 12, 2018
Cool generalizations, but what specifically did she accomplish?
I read it twice. Seems like pure nonsense to me???
Just say he is an uncontrolled idiot
So rather than enacting any meaningful international policy, particularly any discernible policy of the POTUS, she exploited a known weakness of the POTUS to sow chaos in the international system and undermine the stability of American Power specifically and the legitimacy of the Security Council more broadly.
Cool.
I guess we should be proud that she wasn’t committing fraud like the rest of the appointees?
If by “getting the job done” you mean undermining America’s position in the world and allowing Russia to run amok, then sure, you got the job done.