NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump is "CEO of the country, he can fire anyone he wants", America's envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has said, while defending him for firing former FBI director James Comey Haley said she believed that the criticism of Trump stems from discomfort with his propensity to act on his decisions. "The president is the CEO of the country," Indian-origin Haley told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" on Sunday. "She was responding to a question if she found herself having to explain to foreign diplomats Trump's domestic policy decisions. "I think what you can see is that this is a president of action," she said of Trump. "A missile test is not the way to sit down with the president," Haley said.On May 10, Trump fired 56-year-old Comey, abruptly removing the top sleuth overseeing a criminal probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Source: Times of India May 15, 2017 14:50 UTC