"We are doing very well in the fight against ISIS," Trump said as he met with the emir of Kuwait in Saudi Arabia during his first foreign trip. "We're going to be having a news conference in about two weeks to let everybody know how well we're doing."
Though that news conference never materialized, he promised the same thing during his Cabinet meeting on June 12.
"We've had tremendous success against ISIS," Trump had said. "You will see numbers that you would not have believed. And, frankly, if you looked back even six months ago you wouldn't have believed it was possible."
"It has been two weeks, and there has been no news conference, nor is there one scheduled.
"If we have one it will be in the guidance," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday, the day before the two week deadline, when asked about Trump's deadline.
Spicer told reporters Monday there was no update on timing of a potential ISIS news conference.
"As soon as I have an update on that I'll let you know," he said".
from CSNBC opinion:
Ah yes, let’s not overlook the importance of branding a national security strategy. Sure, Trump’s policy towards ISIS will be the same as Obama’s, but officials have now been tasked with identifying ways it might appear different.
There’s no great mystery as to how this happened. Trump, having no idea what he was talking about, said Obama’s policy towards ISIS was a failure because, well, it was Obama’s policy. By all accounts, there’s nothing to suggest Trump knew what his predecessor’s approach was, but the Republican was nevertheless certain he would go in an entirely different direction, implementing a secret plan that didn’t exist outside of his overactive imagination.
Then Trump was elected, at which point he had to abandon the pretense that he had a secret plan, and then begin implementing the same policy he’d spent months denouncing.
As Retired Admiral James Stavridis, an NBC News analyst, put it a few months ago, “The current plan to defeat the Islamic State is just like that old saying: Plan B is just, ‘Try harder at Plan A.
Though that news conference never materialized, he promised the same thing during his Cabinet meeting on June 12.
"We've had tremendous success against ISIS," Trump had said. "You will see numbers that you would not have believed. And, frankly, if you looked back even six months ago you wouldn't have believed it was possible."
"It has been two weeks, and there has been no news conference, nor is there one scheduled.
"If we have one it will be in the guidance," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday, the day before the two week deadline, when asked about Trump's deadline.
Spicer told reporters Monday there was no update on timing of a potential ISIS news conference.
"As soon as I have an update on that I'll let you know," he said".
from CSNBC opinion:
Ah yes, let’s not overlook the importance of branding a national security strategy. Sure, Trump’s policy towards ISIS will be the same as Obama’s, but officials have now been tasked with identifying ways it might appear different.
There’s no great mystery as to how this happened. Trump, having no idea what he was talking about, said Obama’s policy towards ISIS was a failure because, well, it was Obama’s policy. By all accounts, there’s nothing to suggest Trump knew what his predecessor’s approach was, but the Republican was nevertheless certain he would go in an entirely different direction, implementing a secret plan that didn’t exist outside of his overactive imagination.
Then Trump was elected, at which point he had to abandon the pretense that he had a secret plan, and then begin implementing the same policy he’d spent months denouncing.
As Retired Admiral James Stavridis, an NBC News analyst, put it a few months ago, “The current plan to defeat the Islamic State is just like that old saying: Plan B is just, ‘Try harder at Plan A.
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