by Itunuoluwa Adebo
President Trump cracked an expensive joke about his UN Ambassador Nikki Haley at the working lunch he hosted at the White house Monday.
Trump asked the assembled ambassadors as Haley sat by his side “Does everybody like Nikki?” Amid laughter Trump added: “Otherwise, she can easily be replaced.”
Awkward laughter follows
Trump was joking. And everyone in the room , including Haley understood that. But, was he really kidding ?
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First, we know being absolutely certain where you stand in the Trump orbit is hardly possible. We remember White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s arc since he came to Washington. Bannon who seemed to be Trump’s closest and most trusted adviser in the earlier days of the administration , pushing Trump successfully on the travel ban and ramping up talk of the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Till Bannon fell out with Trump and the President offered a public condemnation of Bannon as “a guy who works for me.”
