NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly had an interview with Pompeo yesterday, at the State Department. It didn’t go super great for him.
Mary Louise was there to ask Pompeo about Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine. Over the last couple of weeks, Lev Parnas and GOP hopeful Robert Hyde’s threatening Whatsapp messages, and new reporting that Trump threw several tantrums in an attempt to “get rid of” Yovanovitch has cast new light on the fears for her safety, and quick removal from Ukraine.
Mary Louise asked Pompeo a couple of times if he could point to specific times he has defended Yovanovitch, and whether or not he thought he owed Yovanovitch an apology. Mike then declared the interview over, presumably whilst breaking out in a bad case of flop sweat. He then leaned over and glared at Mary Louise.
Shortly thereafter, he shuffled off to his residence to towel himself off, and had an aide summon Mary Louise to his living room “without a recorder”. Because everyone in this administration is a fucking dipshit, they think they can just use the “OFF THE RECORD” Jedi Sith mind trick, and then say whatever they want.
Pompeo then started throwing a little pissbaby tantrum, shouting at Mary Louise about her questioning, then saying: “DO YOU THINK AMERICANS CARE ABOUT FUCKING UKRAINE?” (editors note: we do), and following that up with “PEOPLE WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!”
Then, because he’s a condescending, misogynistic dickhead, he brought over an unlabeled map of the world (who the fuck has one of these laying around? How long was he planning this?), and told Mary Louise to point to Ukraine on the map. Mary Louise Kelly, who has a Masters’ in European Studies from Cambridge, obviously passed Pompeo’s stupid little test.
This morning, Pompeo, not knowing when he’s beat, released the following statement on State Department letterhead:
Obviously, it’s incredibly petty, and dumb as all hell. Especially considering Bangladesh is on a different continent from Ukraine, and there’s not a chance Mary Louise would make an error like that. However… there is another country that starts with “B” nearby. And if Pompeo weren’t insanely stupid, and incapable of pointing to Ukraine on a map of Ukraine, he might’ve remembered which one.
This is all so, so stupid. Donate to your NPR station.
I wake up in Trump’s America everyday and this week has been rough.
I don’t know how we reclaim our dignity and trustworthiness (as much as that was before) after the Trump presidency. The GOP has been infiltrated and is determined to please Russia at every turn. There are some on the left that want to claim that panic of Russia is manufactured by both the Dems and the GOP but I’m of the opinion that while we should not be afraid of building bridges with Russians individually, we can’t rest on our laurels when it comes to Russia under Putin. I don’t have the energy to enumerate the ways in which Putin has interfered in American affairs but I’m sure we all know that he interfered in the 2016 election and is interfering right at this moment.
I believe that Americans don’t really care, in particular, about foreign affairs so to say that Americans don’t give a fuck about Ukraine may be semi-accurate. However, it’s interesting to see where there is some cognitive dissonance for all of these Cold War babies wanting to give Ukraine and the former Soviet Block up as Lebensraum. Does not giving a shit, for Trump and co., mean that they view Ukraine as Russia’s possession and their quest for sovereignty incidental to US policy up until now? I mean, yes, because they don’t understand the policies we’ve been laboring over for most of the century because they’re here to get theirs and flip everyone off on their way out. They’ve rendered our foreign policy incoherent.
Ukraine’s independence matters. Putin will continue to try to take over his neighbors and it will be up to us to decide how much more we want to let him get away with. Putin will stay in power until he dies if he has his way and there’s no benefit to the US to give him that kind of power outside of Russia’s borders.
Mike Pompeo is a stupid fat fuck who failed upward like most white men in our government. We’ll see if he’s savvy enough to hold a government position after this is all over.
“ Mike Pompeo is a stupid fat fuck who failed upward like most white men in our government. We’ll see if he’s savvy enough to hold a government position after this is all over.”
As much as I’d like so see him in bracelets (and not the pretty kind), he’ll probably have a cush job on Fox, a book deal, or a consulting gig.
And that’s the worst thing about our media-government-corporate merry-go-round. I’m going to have to listen to Trump Admins “expert” insight on TV ten years from now or find out that some disastrous court decision was made by a Trump alum. It may not be “civil” to purge a government or strip people of their credentials but if we lived in a just society no one would hear from these people again.
I want them all held accountable, f@ck civility. Who I vote for going forward will largely be based on them holding vowing to these mobsters and grifters accountable for all their crimes. No more letting them get away with it “for the sake of civility”.
If there is a just and loving deity in existence, please can you make that Wuhan virus mutate and only infect these assholes. You don’t even have to kill them (though humanity will be better off if that were to happen). Making them all suffer horrible, agonizing, painful, and embarrassing symptoms for the next 12 months would be super swell.
Please!?
It appears a couple of things one can come away from this meeting: 1) Trump and his cabinet are not smart and work in an environment of YES people and sycophants. 2 ) By continually going to Faux News for their interviews, they don’t know how to handle tough questions and interviews anymore.
Also they thinking yelling equates tough. Instead of looking like a bawling child.
I just love that he agreed to an interview and somehow thought Ukraine would not come up.
“it’s incredibly petty, and dumb as all hell”
Yeah. Wow.
I read the story in the Guardian, which was damning enough, but that was before the insane official statement was released. To borrow a phrase from our president, Chester Cheetah: Sad!
There seems to be two different distinct types of West Point grad. One takes their oath of Duty Honor Country and lives a life of serving the United States (good and bad) seriously. Then there is the other, a self serving shithead who only views the school as a ticket punch as their way to the top.
Pompeo is that self serving shithead.
I know a couple people who went to West Point who are the first kind. One got out of the army as soon as he could and the other is colonel assigned to the Pentagon. I think he’ll get out as soon as he can as well.
Pompeo has a history of being a patronizing joke when women reporters ask him questions that aren’t softballs:
https://www.wired.com/story/pompeo-was-riding-highuntil-the-ukraine-mess-exploded/
Which is obviously a problem, although there is another problem — the press is ignoring this chronic problem with the Trump Administration across the board, and refusing to talk about how their sexism infects their decision making.
“People will hear about this” as if that could be possibly good for him.
Yeah, you fat ass baby, people heard about it. You come off as a colossal ass, yelling at a woman about the shit you’re trying to cover up. Way to Streisand the shit out of it.
And Mikey, unless you can prove you know where Ukraine is, maybe you shouldn’t make that challenge to people. I suspect you can’t even find Europe, you red-faced ape.
Hah, Grammarly says this sounds ‘disapproving’.
Take it away Sam,
It was great seeing donnie congratulating him for berating her ” I think you did a good job on her”, nothing funnier than verbally abusing women amirite. I mean it’s just locker room talk that easily could have been about sexually abusing her or beating her also but boys will be boys right.