McMaster Tells MSNBC That 'Trump Disrupted A Lot Of What Needed To Be Disrupted'

Alex Christy | August 27, 2024
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Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster is out with a new book detailing his time as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, and while the book is not by any means an ode to Trump, it is also not the typical anti-Trump book that MSNBC’s Morning Joe has become accustomed to. On Tuesday’s show, the assembled cast admitted after their interview with McMaster that this “surprised" them.

Early on in the interview, McMaster lamented that the Trump campaign has trashed the book because “there's a lot positive about President Trump in here, especially about his disruptive nature and my observation is, having been on the receiving end of a lot of policies and strategies developed in Washington, it made no sense to me overseas when I was serving in Kabul and in Baghdad and, you know, Trump disrupted a lot of what needed to be disrupted.”

From McMaster’s perspective, “the story in the book is also about how he is so disruptive that he disrupts himself, and he becomes the antagonist in his own story. So, this is not, you know—this is not a warning about President Trump. This is informing readers about, you know, the president's character and personality, how that interacts with, you know, the real challenges that we faced, all of which are live issues today.”

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