1 big thing: "The most toxic working environment on the planet"

[DonViejo]

By Mike Allen

In 14 months covering this White House, Axios' Jonathan Swan emails, he's never registered such a mood of acute anxiety from within the West Wing.

What we're hearing: Nobody knows what exactly is happening, who’s about to be fired, or which staffer will next be frogmarched out the door by security for some shadowy clearance issue.

"This is the most toxic working environment on the planet. Usually tough times bring people together. But right now this atmosphere is ripping people apart. There's no leadership, no trust, no direction and this point there's very little hope. Would you want to go to work every day not knowing whether your future career was going to be destroyed without explanation?"

— A White House official to Axios

Senior officials are equivocating privately when asked whether they think John Kelly and H.R. McMaster are staying or going. Nobody knows because it’s Trump, and the way he dealt with Rex Tillerson was sudden, even though he’d long been fed up with his Secretary of State.

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[Girard442]

1. When the body has an infection that it cannot quell, it sometimes walls it off into an abcess.

This is not anywise a good choice, but it may be the least bad choice. We may have no choice but to try to wall off the Trump presidency from the larger society until such time the abcess can be surgically drained.

[Locrian]

2. is good da?

fearless leader puppet make big beautiful country isporchennyy
mission accomplished - da

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