By the time of the Syrian attack on Khan Sheikhoun, McMaster had been Trump’s national security advisor for only about six weeks. Yet his efforts to inform the president had already become an exercise in trying to tutor a recalcitrant and resentful student. Recently Trump’s meetings with McMaster had ended up in near acrimony, and now the president was telling several friends that his new national security advisor was too boring and that he was going to fire him.
