Demoralized West Wing stokes fears over Trump's capacity to handle a crisis

[DonViejo]

The president has embraced chaos since the beginning, but the past week's drama has left staffers dangerously depleted.

By JOHN F. HARRIS and ANDREW RESTUCCIA 03/02/2018 08:38 PM EST Updated 03/02/2018 08:43 PM EST

Chaos here, backlash there, shock everywhere. And in Washington and around the globe another gasping chorus of WTF commentary: reckless, not normal, reality show run amok.

And so on, et cetera, et cetera, for the one-hundredth-and-can’t-remember time of the Trump Era.

But there is something different about this week’s spasm of sudden policy lurches, graceless personal insults, oozing scandal news, and ceaseless West Wing knife fights.

It is the starkest example to date of President Donald Trump’s executive style looking untenable not merely from the outside — from the perspective of establishment politicians and media analysts — but from the inside, too.

Administration officials and outsiders with windows into decision-making describe a growing sense of despair within Trump’s ranks, driven by the mounting realization that the president’s brand of politics guided by intuition and improvisation is incompatible with a competently functioning executive branch.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/02/trump-white-house-chaos-crisis-434333

[titaniumsalute]

1. Umm...knock knock knock. Hello? Yeah we've been saying this since mid 2016

Nearly every Democrat on earth has been saying that this would happen if the buffoon was elected. He'd turn the Exec branch into a reality show, he doesn't know how to run a Government, he'll rule by ego, it will be dysfunctional. Nothing that is happening is a surprise.

[Mr. Ected]

2. Why raise our blood pressure like this?

With a complicit Congress, we're being told that our illness is terminal and the doctor chooses not to visit.