‘The Wheels Have Come Off’: The Trump Administration Plunges Into Full-Scale Crisis

CNN’s Jim Acosta reported Thursday that he’d received an ominous text from a “top House Republican who supports the president” and “is in a national security role up on Capitol Hill.” The text, in response to the sudden resignation by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, warned “the wheels may be coming off” the Trump administration. May be?

Let’s be clear: Mattis’s departure isn’t a resignation. It is a blistering protest. A stinging public rebuke of the Unites States president — his Commander-in-Chief — by a four-star Marine Corps general who served his country admirably and honorably for fifty years.

It was without any shred of ambiguity Mattis finally telling Trump, ‘You’re a moron….and I’m outta here.’

There’s no doubt Mattis’s resignation letter was intended as a harsh slap to a president he believes is woefully ignorant of geopolitics and lacking the intelligence, temperament, discipline and strategic thinking required of the job. A president who’s consistently undermined America’s allies while emboldening its enemies.

“My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues,” Mattis…