On her weekly Sirius XM broadcast, former U.N. Ambassador and SC governor Nikki Haley pushed back on President-elect Donald Trump’s X re-post from his Truth Social account announcing to the world he had no interest in Haley as a part of the Trump 2.0 Administration.
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@NikkiHaley made clear that she never wanted a position in the Trump administration in her private conversations with Trump Transition Co-chair @HowardLutnick — and when Donald Trump’s best Steve Witkoff came to her house asking her what position she wants. She also stated it publicly 4 times on tv.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. It was just two weeks ago that Haley was criticizing Trump for his campaign catering to men. Haley appeared testy at Fox News’ Bret Baier’s question about why she was not campaigning for him.
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It is particularly telling that it was not her who put the issue of her being part of the administration to bed; it was Trump. Why keep that potential alive in media circles if you had made it clear weeks before that you had no interest? It seems Haley may have been playing games of her own, and Trump’s post put her games to bed.
Nikki Haley pushed back Wednesday against President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that she wouldn’t be welcome in his new administration, pointing out that she had long said she wasn’t interested and revealing she had been contacted by his transition team.
“I know the game he was playing. I don’t need to play that game,” the former South Carolina governor and past GOP presidential primary rival to Trump said on her weekly radio show on SiriusXM, later adding: “He can be shallow at times, and I think he showed that.”
Haley also said:
“I had no interest in being in his cabinet. He knew that,” she added. “At this point, we should pray President Trump does well, we should pray that everyone he appoints does well,” she said.
Yes, we all should be praying the new Trump administration does well. But when you come off as a touch bitter, as if you have been called out on deceptive tactics, what else can you say? As the above post indicates, she comes off more as a jilted lover than a woman in control. Which is part of the reason why she lost in the primaries and why her political capital is nonexistent.
Curious: Who thought it was a good idea for Haley to have a weekly radio show? However does she fill up the time? I guess with globalist prognosticators, Never Trumpers, and The Trump 1.0 Bitter Retread Hour with John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, John Kelly, Omarosa Manigault, and others who are still ranting about what a terrible leader President Trump was and will be in this next term. Then there’s the international failure theater, like former UK Prime Minister David Cameron. What amazes me is that these people, instead of slinking away, warming a board or think tank seat, and happily spending their wealth instead parade their incompetence and bad policies that got them booted from their former positions for all the world to see.
My colleague Streiff said it well:
While I think Haley and Pompeo are talented and did superb jobs in Trump 1.0, there is no doubt that they both have their sights set on the White House. At the same time, there is a lot of doubt that they are philosophically aligned with President Trump on foreign policy or have the humility to serve him loyally if they disagree. Pompeo, in my opinion, was one of those appointees in the first Trump Administration in the mold of John Kelly, James Mattis, and Rex Tillerson who saw themselves as the adults in the room charged with the mission of keeping an impulsive and not-very-bright Trump from breaking too many things. Last time around, Pompeo used his role as CIA director to block key Michael Flynn aides from serving on the National Security Council.
I think Haley and Pompeo’s first allegiance will be to protect their personal brands against a future presidential run. They will probably leak, and slow-roll Trump policies they believe will harm their personal political chances.
Haley is still trying to appear relevant and on the pulse of Republican leadership. She is another one who has stayed too long at the fair and fails to recognize that the Republican Party where she was once lauded no longer exists; at least in any form that matters to people or can still wield power. What Trump did with his post was not being shallow, but conclusive. New day, new party, and new agendas that have no room for corporatists and globalists.
