When Jason Miller was on my Sunday show, I asked the Trump senior adviser why his boss was trashing the likes of Bill Barr, John Kelly, John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney. Why did he hire them in the first place?
"Well, look, I think as President Trump learned with real estate, you learn something new in every single deal. Of course, there'll be some people that don't get invited back," he said.
In a combative and probing interview with Donald Trump on Monday, Fox’s Bret Baier asked a similar question, ticking off what the former president had said about these and other appointees (Barr a "gutless pig," Kelly born with "a very small brain") – though in fairness they have been denouncing him as unfit for office.
"Because I hired 10 to 1 that were fantastic," Trump said. "We had a great economy. We had phenomenal people in charge of the economy. We had phenomenal people in the military." Then he veered off into saying that he had defeated ISIS in four weeks (of course he had some help from our brave soldiers).