MaddowBlog-Trump wants to pick foreign leaders, and his list isn't limited to Iran

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The president believes he’s entitled not only to choose officials to serve in his executive branch, but also to choose leaders in foreign lands.

Have you seen his picks? Anyone - I mean anyone - could do a better job than any of the morons, in his regime. 🤡

Trump wants to pick foreign leaders, and his list isn’t limited to Iran
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With Ayatollah Ali Khamenei having been killed as part of the ongoing war in Iran, there’s great uncertainty surrounding who will lead the Middle Eastern country going forward. Evidently, Donald Trump doesn’t just have some ideas on the subject, the president also expects to be directly involved in answering the underlying question. MS NOW reported Thursday as part of the network’s live blog coverage:

Trump told Axios in an interview today that he must be involved in picking the next supreme leader of Iran.

Several news outlets have reported that the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, is favored to succeed his father. Trump said that would be ‘unacceptable’ to him and dismissed the regime’s process of picking a new supreme leader, which is carried out by senior clerics who make up Iran’s Assembly of Experts.

The Republican explicitly told Axios, “I have to be involved in the appointment,” a position he continued to emphasize in others interviews Thursday. Indeed, Trump told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl: “We don’t want them to put anybody in there unless it is approved by us.”....

We’re not just talking about Trump’s habit of endorsing foreign candidates and hoping they’ll win elections in their respective countries. Rather, this is a situation in which the president believes he’s entitled not only to choose officials to serve in his own executive branch, but also to choose leaders in foreign lands.

I continue to think about the Americans who supported the GOP ticket in 2024 because they believed Republicans would pursue a foreign policy based on restraint and non-interventionism, and just how spectacularly wrong they were

[RainCaster]

1. Which country should select our Supreme Leader?

France, UK or Canada?