Day 450: Donald Trump’s Syria Hypocrisy

Donald Trump announced Friday night that the U.S. — along with France and the U.K. — was executing limited bombing strikes in Syria as a direct response to dictator Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons to bomb civilians.

Whether the strikes were the right call or wrong call will be borne out in the future, but Trump’s hypocrisy has been revealed immediately.

Trump did not seek or receive congressional approval for the bombings.

Trump has put U.S. dollars and servicemen and servicewomen to work in and around Syria.

Trump has openly discussed, including on Twitter, that a missile strike was imminent. Early reports out of Syria indicate that many of the areas that were bombed by the U.S. and their allies were evacuated days ago after being warned by the Russians.

John Bolton served as George W. Bush’s Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. He pushed George W. Bush to invade Iraq by continuing to claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Bolton is now Trump’s National Security Advisor.

Trump’s poll numbers have lagged for his 15 months in office. As more and more information comes out about Russian interference in the 2016 election, his team faces more legal quandaries — with many already facing indictments and others already pleading guilty — which will likely keep his poll numbers low.

450 days in, 1012 to go

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