Trump Accidentally Called Former Aide H.R. McMaster

CBS News reports:

Just over a month ago, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster received an unexpected call on his personal cell, four sources told CBS News. It was from the White House and he was instructed by the voice on the other end to stand by for the president. McMaster, who had served as national security adviser during President Trump’s first term and was ousted after 13 months, was surprised to hear from Mr. Trump at all.

Just a day earlier, on March 2, Mr. Trump had lobbed his latest insult at McMaster, blasting him on social media as a “weak and totally ineffective loser.” “Henry…” is how Trump opened the call before launching into the conversation. “Mr. President, this is H.R. McMaster,” he said into the phone. “Why the f*** would I talk” to H.R. McMaster? Trump asked dismissively, and then Trump launched into a scathing critique of his former aide, two sources said.

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Trump had meant to call South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. The White House refuses to say who placed the call for Trump.

White House spox Stephen Cheung ridiculed H.R. McMaster in a statement to CBS about the call, saying, “H.R. McMaster has completely beclowned himself and his third-rate book, which is now sold in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore, is filled with lies in a futile attempt to rehabilitate his tattered reputation.”