Donald Trump Quotes
Gates is a clown—–an absolute clown.
Robert Gates was the longest serving Secretary of Defense in American History. He served 6 different Presidents—–5 Republicans and 1 Democrat. He was the Director of the CIA and at the time of Trump's statement was the President of the University of Oklahoma. Yet Trump, in his inimitable style, insulted this great public administrator and servant and dismisses him as incompetent. Gate had written a book in which he criticized Trump and, unable to control himself, Trump stuck out with this vicious insult and never once tried to answer any of Gate's criticism.
Campaign Speech, September 2016 Quoted on CBS, Face the Nation, September 18, 2018
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
In the wee hours of the previous morning, Donald Trump, then the President Elect and 3 weeks from taking the oath of office, tweeted to all who would pay attention, referred to the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Chuck Shumer, a "clown". Not only was it unseemly for the Presidident to use such a term to refer to one of the more important Congressional leaders, but it was pointless at the time and demeaned the Presidency in the eyes of many, including foreign leaders who were trying to assess the new American President. Trump had a practice of tweeting in the middle of the night nasty messages about people or companies or media who's action may have bothered him. He even tweeted about Vanity Fair for publichinbg a negative review of one of the resteraunts he owned. Most people thought that after he had won the preisdency, he wouod not be so petty and deal with inconseuqntial things and would certainly not send tweets in the middle of the night, but he continued. He had also used the word clown to characterize Robert Gates, the longest serving Secretary of Defense in American history and one wo was regarded by most as the best, He also led the CIA and was the President of the Univeristy of Oklahoma and no one before or since had ever called him a "clown." See Quotation 643249.
- Born: June 14, 1946
- Nationality: American
- Profession: U.S. President, Businessman
Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
