You can always trust Democrats to toss tantrums when they don't get their way.
President Donald Trump announced that he would be replacing the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown with Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine. Here's Trump telling an anecdote of how he met Caine.
.@POTUS: "What's your name?"
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 22, 2025
"My name is Caine, sir."@POTUS: "What's your first name?"
"They call me 'Razin.'"@POTUS: "I said, 'Wait a minute. Your name is Razin Caine? I love you. I've been looking for you for five years!'"
😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/2aCs62Ispw
Caine had been an F-16 fighter pilot. Among the things he did was protect D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001, after the attacks.
In addition to a lot of impressive background, Trump explained he picked him because of his great success in helping to destroy the ISIS caliphate. So based on actual results.
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But replacing Brown wasn't sitting well with Democrats like Susan Rice, who had a meltdown. CNN's Kaitlan Collins set the tone saying she heard from unidentified source (a retired general, supposedly) who thought that this was "sadly political" and "tragic." Rice shook her head sadly, as though this was a tragedy.
The Obama Machine is very unhappy about Trump’s new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs —
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 22, 2025
— Susan Rice laments Trump “politicizing” a formerly “apolitical” military:
“We have always had an extraordinarily apolitical professional military. It's one of our greatest strengths as a… pic.twitter.com/2xfQIpzLRF
Rice told Collins:
“We have always had an extraordinarily apolitical professional military It's one of our greatest strengths as a democracy. We have civilian control, but we have men and women in our military of all backgrounds who are super highly qualified, and who serve with honor and serve with integrity and without politicization.
And now, suddenly, Donald Trump is bringing politics into the process of determining who should be our military leaders.
That is dangerous. It's unprecedented. And it does not bode well for our integrity as a democracy.
What is it that he expects that Gen. Caine will do that one of the sitting four stars will not do? That's the question we all need to be asking ourselves. They all take an oath to the Constitution to the United States, not to any individual president or any individual leader."
Perhaps Susan Rice would like to check in on what her boss Barack Obama did in the past, in what some called a "coup" and a "purge" of 197 military officers to align the military with more of what he wanted? That was damaging and unprecedented.
This is not that, as CNN commentator Scott Jennings explained to a CNN panel. There's a really simple reason, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs serves at the pleasure of the president, to be his or her chief adviser.
🔥NEW: Scott Jennings teaches CNN panel a basic lesson on how the US govt works:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 22, 2025
“The [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs] serves at the pleasure of the President."
A lot of need for civics lessons to be administered to hysterical fake news hacks of late.pic.twitter.com/CUp1ZKDDKq
Why does he have to explain this? They should know it already.
Of course Trump is going to choose the person he thinks best for that job, and that's his right. But the Democrats don't want to acknowledge this. They want to make every move that Trump takes somehow "unprecedented" and fearful -- even if it isn't and what they did was actually bad.
If Susan Rice is unhappy, that pretty much confirms what a great move this is.
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