Wilbur Ross: Trump’s Syria Strike Was “After Dinner Entertainment”

In a statement that has sent shockwaves across the diplomatic establishment, Donald Trump’s decision to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Syria last month was just ‘after-dinner entertainment,’ which ‘did not cost the president anything,’ US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said, shortly after President Trump called the attack a ‘tough decision.’ Ross delivered the controversial comment while speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, according to Variety.
This is how Ross recalled Trump’s April 6 meeting with Xi at the President’s Mar-A-Lago luxury resort in Palm Beach:
‘Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria,’ Ross said. ‘It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 2, 2017.