James Woolsey isn’t advising Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team any longer after quitting his post the other day.
The former CIA director, though, didn’t surrender his expertise on national security issues. His advice, then, to the commander in chief-elect? Cool it with the tweets after you become president.
Woolsey makes a cogent point. According to CNBC: Trump should re-evaluate his use of Twitter (TWTR) with “fresh eyes” after the inauguration, because “governing in 140 character transmissions is a lot harder,” Woolsey said on “Squawk Box.”
Indeed. This idea of making policy proclamations via Twitter gives some of us the heebie-jeebies. He declared, for instance, that he might reconsider the nation’s decades-long One China Policy as it relates to our relationship with the People’s Republic of China.
He uses Twitter to criticize the media, his political foes and also uses the social medium to praise the likes of Vladimir Putin.
I am going to hold out a glimmer — a sliver, perhaps — of hope that Trump is going to wise up once he becomes president. Man, it’s all most of have … hope that he’ll listen — finally! — to someone who knows a thing or two about national security.