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Trump Aides Can’t Stop Blabbing About How He’s a Madman
Topic Started: Jan 24 2017, 03:29 PM (1,573 Views)
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As I've said, old Trumpy & Co., aren't off to a great start. Now this!

Trump Aides Can’t Stop Blabbing About How He’s a Madman http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-aides-cant-stop-blabbing-about-how-hes-a-madman.html

"The president is a 70-year-old child whose TV time must be closely monitored — because any news story that upsets his ego will trigger a temper tantrum followed by irrational demands that his indulgent, overwhelmed guardians will be helpless to refuse.

Or so Donald Trump’s aides keep confiding to the nearest available reporter.

On Sunday, one of the president’s confidantes told Politico that his staffers have to “control information that may infuriate him,” a task made difficult by the fact that the leader of the free world “gets bored and likes to watch TV.”

That same day, some Trump aides provided the New York Times with a portrait of the president as a moody adolescent."
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Talking about babbling like a madman.

I know who gets my vote for the worst poster on p.com
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On Sunday, one of the president’s confidantes told Politico that his staffers have to “control information that may infuriate him,” a task made difficult by the fact that the leader of the free world “gets bored and likes to watch TV.”

That same day, some Trump aides provided the New York Times with a portrait of the president as a moody adolescent.

Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury



America elected an adolescent idiot as president.
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We have indeed elected quite a piece of work. To go from a talented, even-keeled quick learner like Barack Obama full of earnest seriousness and a natural feel for the importance of the job to a deranged septuagenarian juvenile who can't even be trusted to watch TV on his own...

I'd say "God help us" but frankly, this nightmare is what we deserve.
Edited by Two a.m., Jan 24 2017, 04:50 PM.
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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fake news....not one source other than anonymous ones....how long are you mods going to let this nonsense continue.... :popcorn:
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Four days into the Trump Administration and the White House is leaking like a sieve.
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dr345
Jan 24 2017, 04:58 PM
Four days into the Trump Administration and the White House is leaking like a sieve.
Right you are and it doesn't bode well for old Trumpy!
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One thing that comes through from Trump's career is that he's not a particularly effective manager and that's already showing. Unlike Obama who had a pretty firm managerial style which left remarkably little infighting or drama, I expect Trumpville to be an endless soap opera. Trump is basically a weak-minded, unpredictable and impulsive boy-king who has little emotional control and absolutely no idea what he's doing. In such an environment, there is intense competition for "access" to the leader. That's because policy and power is essentially decided by whoever the toddler-in-chief spoke to last so everyone wants his ear. Expect constant jockeying and frequent leaks as all the snakes crap on each other trying to position themselves better. The only thing that might unite this motley crew is the overarching desire to keep the toddler-in-chief from going bonkers over this or that thing he saw on Twitter.

If we're lucky, someone will emerge as the alpha-dog and run the country with Trump as a sort of figurehead. Maybe they can keep some Thorazine on hand to keep him calm when he starts to get loony. If we're not lucky, it'll just be continuous chaos with no one in control of anything and Trump running around unplugged saying and doing crazy stuff without anyone holding his leash.
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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Two a.m.
Jan 24 2017, 05:19 PM
One thing that comes through from Trump's career is that he's not a particularly effective manager and that's already showing. Unlike Obama who had a pretty firm managerial style which left remarkably little infighting or drama, I expect Trumpville to be an endless soap opera. Trump is basically a weak-minded, unpredictable and impulsive boy-king who has little emotional control and absolutely no idea what he's doing. In such an environment, there is intense competition for "access" to the leader. That's because policy and power is essentially decided by whoever the toddler-in-chief spoke to last so everyone wants his ear. Expect constant jockeying and frequent leaks as all the snakes crap on each other trying to position themselves better. The only thing that might unite this motley crew is the overarching desire to keep the toddler-in-chief from going bonkers over this or that thing he saw on Twitter.

If we're lucky, someone will emerge as the alpha-dog and run the country with Trump as a sort of figurehead. Maybe they can keep some Thorazine on hand to keep him calm when he starts to get loony. If we're not lucky, it'll just be continuous chaos with no one in control of anything and Trump running around unplugged saying and doing crazy stuff without anyone holding his leash.
Slim pickings of those surrounding him. I don't see anyone capable or sane.
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Jan 24 2017, 05:31 PM
Two a.m.
Jan 24 2017, 05:19 PM
One thing that comes through from Trump's career is that he's not a particularly effective manager and that's already showing. Unlike Obama who had a pretty firm managerial style which left remarkably little infighting or drama, I expect Trumpville to be an endless soap opera. Trump is basically a weak-minded, unpredictable and impulsive boy-king who has little emotional control and absolutely no idea what he's doing. In such an environment, there is intense competition for "access" to the leader. That's because policy and power is essentially decided by whoever the toddler-in-chief spoke to last so everyone wants his ear. Expect constant jockeying and frequent leaks as all the snakes crap on each other trying to position themselves better. The only thing that might unite this motley crew is the overarching desire to keep the toddler-in-chief from going bonkers over this or that thing he saw on Twitter.

If we're lucky, someone will emerge as the alpha-dog and run the country with Trump as a sort of figurehead. Maybe they can keep some Thorazine on hand to keep him calm when he starts to get loony. If we're not lucky, it'll just be continuous chaos with no one in control of anything and Trump running around unplugged saying and doing crazy stuff without anyone holding his leash.
Slim pickings of those surrounding him. I don't see anyone capable or sane.

Conway, maybe. Kushner, perhaps. Hopefully, it isn't Bannon.

I wish Ivanka was on staff. Despite swimming out of the shallow end of the gene pool, she actually seems reasonably intelligent, sane and serious.

Must take after her mother.

"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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This ain't gonna end well.


Have you paid your internet taxes?
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Jan 24 2017, 04:55 PM
fake news....not one source other than anonymous ones....how long are you mods going to let this nonsense continue.... :popcorn:
If this last week is any indication, you're gonna be really busy the next few months defending your guy.

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Jan 24 2017, 04:55 PM
fake news....not one source other than anonymous ones....how long are you mods going to let this nonsense continue.... :popcorn:
What fake news, the pap that you peddle?

The first days inside Trump’s White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot http://wpo.st/_vwT2
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Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.
Trump White House senior staff have private RNC email accounts http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191
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Jan 25 2017, 07:14 PM
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Jan 24 2017, 04:55 PM
fake news....not one source other than anonymous ones....how long are you mods going to let this nonsense continue.... :popcorn:
What fake news, the pap that you peddle?

The first days inside Trump’s White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot http://wpo.st/_vwT2
"What fake news"

Posts link from Washington Post

:biggrin:
MEEK AND MILD
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Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.

It didn't even start well.

"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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Two a.m.
Jan 25 2017, 08:11 PM
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Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.

It didn't even start well.

Here's another reason why: Trump clamps down on federal agencies; http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315989-trump-clamps-down-on-federal-agencies
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Two a.m.
Jan 25 2017, 08:11 PM
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Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.

It didn't even start well.

Based on what? (Trump is a meanie greedy)
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Two a.m.
Jan 25 2017, 08:11 PM
CautionaryTales
Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.

It didn't even start well.

Spot on with both.
"...a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is detrimental...having lost the will..to demand...good..." - Rachel Carson
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Jan 25 2017, 08:54 PM
Two a.m.
Jan 25 2017, 08:11 PM
CautionaryTales
Jan 24 2017, 06:17 PM
This ain't gonna end well.

It didn't even start well.

Based on what? (Trump is a meanie greedy)

Well, his administration is leaking worse than the seals on a 1973 Plymouth Duster with aides trying desperately to distance themselves from his bizarre behavior. That's exceedingly odd in the opening days of an administration. It usually happens after all the wheels have come off and the boss is scheduled to lose an election next week. You've got his entire team apparently trying frantically to get him to act like he's president and focus on policy and instead, he goes all bonkers because of some pictures of his inauguration and some protesters. So he forces poor old Sean "I have the worst job in the entire world" Spicer to call an astonishingly humiliating press conference and do his best Baghdad Bob impression to tell people that photos they were directly looking at didn't show the things that were clearly in them. He also had to field questions about Trump's continued attempts to claim massive imaginary fraud from the November election. Trump may be the first human being in history to try and delegitimize an election he actually WON. The writers at the Onion have to be wondering how they are going to be able to parody this guy.

It is kind of hard seeing how this goes on for four years. The president is mentally disturbed. The staff is engaged in infighting and the only strategy to get everything on track appears to be attempting to keep our childlike commander-in-chief from watching too much TV so he won't have a tantrum.

I can't predict the future but so far this whole thing is a hot mess. It's gonna be a rough term.
Edited by Two a.m., Jan 25 2017, 10:55 PM.
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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