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Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) becomes the latest lawmaker to announce a forthcoming book \u2014 but this one will take aim at his own party and President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents<\/a>\u201d will explore how a group of \u201cgrifting sycophants and useful idiots\u201d have impacted the second Trump administration, according to a new summary from his publisher released Thursday.<\/p>\n

Tillis has clashed publicly with the president and members of his administration, particularly after Trump effectively forced him into retirement. In an interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Tillis said those individuals \u2014 whom he dubs as \u201cMAGATS\u201d in his book \u2014 \u201care not giving the president honest advice and putting us in positions that we could avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m talking about people who have never worked a day in business, who now have business strategy, decision-making roles, and they’re simply not looking around corners and taking care of this president,\u201d Tillis said. \u201cThose are the people I want to expose in this book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tillis has publicly criticized<\/a> members of Trump\u2019s administration including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth; the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought; onetime acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte; and Trump\u2019s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. His most recent break with the president was his refusal to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanche until he agreed to eliminate Trump\u2019s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.<\/p>\n

But Tillis, who announced last year he would not seek reelection after serving two terms in the upper chamber, emphasized on Thursday that he hopes to help Republicans maintain their slim majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want Republicans to win in November. That\u2019s why I\u2019m speaking out,\u201d said Tillis. \u201c I\u2019m here for the American people, not to score points with Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth or these other folks who I think are giving the president bad advice.\u201d<\/p>\n

His book \u2014 a play on the famous \u201cHow to Win Friends and Influence People\u201d \u2014 will be released Oct. 6, ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) becomes the latest lawmaker to announce a forthcoming book \u2014 but this one will take aim at his own party and President Donald Trump. \u201cHow to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents\u201d will explore how a group of \u201cgrifting sycophants and useful idiots\u201d have impacted the second Trump administration, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}