Trump drops F-bomb on call after accidentally ringing former adviser he hates
President Trump dialed a very wrong number and ended up chewing out his former national security advisor, according to the latest bizarre report on mixed White House messages.
It happened when Trump accidentally rang his former national security advisor, H.R. McMaster. In a bit of unfortunate timing, the call occurred a day after Trump ripped him as 'a weak and totally ineffective loser!' CBS News reported.
The tip-off that Trump had phoned the wrong person came when Trump started speaking to 'Henry.' The former Army Lieutenant General goes by 'H.R.'
'Mr. President, this is H.R. McMaster,' he responded, according to the network.
'Why the f*** would I talk' to H.R. McMaster?' Trump shot back, according to two sources, who said the president then went into a 'scathing critque' of McMaster, who dissects his 13 months working for Trump in his book, 'At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House.'
He has spoken openly of the 'hold' he says Russian President Vladimir Putin has on Trump, criticism that has infuriated the president.
It turns out that the person Trump was trying to phone was South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Trump loyalist who the president has appointed to his 'council of governors.'
President Donald Trump accidentally phoned his former national security advisor H.R. McMaster, who has publicly criticized his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin
White House communications director Steven Cheung tore into the McMaster who got the Trump call in a statement.
'H.R. McMaster has completely beclowned himself and his third-rate book, which is now sold in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore, is filled with lies in a futile attempt to rehabilitate his tattered reputation,' he said.
The mishap comes just weeks after Trump's current national security advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffery Goldberg to a Signal chat where members discussed an imminent military attack on the Houthis in Yemen.
The White House has declared the matter 'case closed,' although the Pentagon's inspector General has opened a probe of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the commercial app during the conversation.
The IG will look at whether the Secretary and other personnel 'complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business.'
