White House meltdown

[struggle4progress]

By Paul Waldman | The Washington Post
Updated: 9 hours ago

... New reporting paints a picture of the administration descending into a thunderdome of backstabbing and resentment as staffers jockey for position or wonder whether they should get the heck out, all presided over by an erratic, unhappy president. This might sound like a familiar story, but if it isn't already worse than it has been before, it soon will be, especially now that the midterm elections have cast a cloud over the remaining two years of President Donald Trump's term ...

Trump's trip to France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I was a disaster, marked by a brooding and petulant president mocked and condemned wherever he went ...

While Trump is considering replacing Kelly with Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, "aides told Trump that appointing Ayers would lower staff morale and perhaps trigger an exodus" ...

Trump's firing of Jeff Sessions and appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, a move meant to protect him from the Mueller investigation, is turning out to be a mini-scandal in its own right ...

... Nobody likes losing, of course, but nobody hates it more than Trump, particularly after he worked so hard in the weeks leading up to the election, telling his supporters that "I'm not on the ticket, but I am on the ticket, because this is also a referendum about me." It was indeed, and he was pretty emphatically rejected ...

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/11/14/paul-waldman-white-house/

[brush]

1. I wanted to say something sympathetic without the snarky "thoughts and prayers'...

one might find on DU about trump, but I decided against it.

Fuck that fat fuck.

[justhanginon]

4. Works for me!

[lindysalsagal]

2. Isn't this round 47 for "white house meltdown?"

I believed it everytime, but how do others keep propping it
up?

[EleanorR]

5. I think it's just a permanent state

Kind of inevitable given the ineptitude, narcissism, and corruption in the White House right now.

[central scrutinizer]

14. Yes, every week

We read an article with phrases like "this was a particularly chaotic week" or "acrimony seems to have reached a new level" or "Trump seems even more petulant and angry".

[UniteFightBack]

3. Ho hum it's just another day at the office. nt

[2naSalit]

6. He could have

an aneurysm if he keeps up his raging and eating shitty stuff that barely qualifies as food.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. teaser

[dalton99a]

9. Beautiful cake has a calming effect

They should feed him more. A lot more.

Just eat and take a nap

[Wounded Bear]

10. You say that like it's a bad thing...

[2naSalit]

11. *snort*

Just trying to stay out of trouble...

[Wounded Bear]

13. I hope Agent Mike has the night off...

[central scrutinizer]

15. No!

I don't want him to elude justice by croaking.

[UTUSN]

8. Sounds like the last day in HITLER's bunker (there was an orgy).

[2naSalit]

12. Wasn't he

all alone?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Hitler had his Eva, had staff and their families in the bunker.

Most movies show the bunker as having living quarters for the people in it.

At the end, some of the people left and either surrendered, or fled. I think a couple of his closest staff also killed themselves, there are some stories about a couple families that killed their children then themselves.
Also reports he killed his dog, perhaps Eva then himself, or she cyanided herself, etc.

Very much Jim Jones type of fervor.