Leaks Suggest Trump's Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct

[highplainsdem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-leaks_us_589a45f1e4b04061313a1fbb?

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?

So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.

Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.

Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ― although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail.

For Americans who based their impression of Trump on the competent and decisive tycoon he portrayed on his “Apprentice” TV reality shows, the portrait from these and many other tidbits emerging from his administration may seem a shock: an impulsive, sometimes petty chief executive more concerned with the adulation of the nation than the details of his own policies ― and quick to assign blame when things do not go his way.

Unsurprisingly, Trump’s volatile behavior has created an environment ripe for leaks from his executive agencies and even within his White House. And while leaks typically involve staffers sabotaging each other to improve their own standing or trying to scuttle policy ideas they find genuinely problematic, Trump’s 2-week-old administration has a third category: leaks from White House and agency officials alarmed by the president’s conduct.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Holy fucking shitballs!!!!!!

.

[sunonmars]

42. its obvious he suffers from mental breakdowns....

This whole up all night making tweets ranting and phone calls is basically a cry for help, his subconcious is basically screaming "Help me".

This is not going to end well.

They could manage it when he was a TV person and could hide behind cameras, he cant hide now and i suspect a very public mental break will happen soon.

This will end in resignation or the 25th getting enacted.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Tale a ticket and get on line.

[annabanana]

3. I will hold the Republicans personally responsible,

each and every one of them, for each day they heedlessly allow him, even encourage him, to dismantle America.

[Kablooie]

30. No way! The Democrats are responsible!

Because Beghazi!

[SoCalDem]

37. you forgot about the

eeeeeeeeemails....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. But but but

Trump's going to bring the revolution according to Susan Saranwrap

[Scarsdale]

44. I agree

They are putting in people who will destroy this country. After they get Sessions and a few other unqualified goons in place, THEN they will decide tRump has to go. His mental state was obvious to most of us, even Putin knew and he used him like a puppet.

[unblock]

4. wait -- "the competent... tycoon he portrayed on his 'apprentice' tv reality show"???

anyone who saw that show even once would know that he portrays a horrendous manager who sows discord and conflict in his team, encourages back-stabbing, rewards lying, and is pleased with those who "win" by any means.

although everyone on the show was for some reason begging to win and work for him, it's obvious that he'd be a horrible person to actually work for. he made basic, textbook management mistakes all over the place.


decisive, ok, i'll give him that. but competent? *no f------ way*.

[groundloop]

18. HAH !!!! you just admitted to watching that crap show.

[unblock]

28. yes, and i completely blame mrs. unblock.

she watches most of those so-called reality game shows.

mostly i just like sitting next to her and playing games on my phone, surfing du, etc.

but, yeah, can't help but take in some of the crap that's on.

[Blanks]

47. He should have been required to say...

"I'm not a billionaire, but I play one on TV".

[unblock]

48. yeah. thing is, he never displays anything that makes him look capable.

contrast this to gordon ramsey on hell's kitchen. sure, much of what ramsey does could easily be Hollywood fakery. we obviously can't taste or smell the food, so other than visual cues, we have to take his word as to judgment. who's to say if there's not enough salt, e.g.

but at least there are occasional moments where ramsey is giving very specific cooking advice. not saying it's brilliant advice, but at least he's showing some kind of actual expert knowledge.


donnie never seemed to do *any* of that on the apprentice. praise the winners, knock the losers, get the people arguing, then fire one of the losers. that's it. he never seemed to shed any light on how to better run a business or anything.

so, yeah. not only pretend billionaire, but pretend executive, too.

[lunatica]

61. And total idiot wannabe apprentices who drooled at the vision of themselves

as billionaires. I never watched it but hear Amarosa is a real villain and got famous for being really nasty to everyone just to win.

It's the same for those who went to his university. Droolers all of them.

[sunonmars]

41. Trump's business talent is built on sand, he is a pyramid scheme.

He basically knows nothing but bluster and fronting on camera, this is all going to go to shit really quickly once the curtains are drawn back, he is close to exposure and he knows it, his psyche is going break the dam soon.

[unblock]

43. unfortunately, now he is in a position to embezzle a fortune.

if the media was capable of actual investigative journalism and responsible coverage, the campaign would have been very different and we wouldn't be in this situation.

but as it is, donnie can milk his office for enough to make himself solvent and then some.

[Brother Buzz]

5. 3 a.m.? Xi Jinping would have been wide awake and be happy to help the idget

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. Can you imagine how Flynn felt to get a 3 am call from the Pres.?

He would assume, naturally enough, that it was about a crisis.

[Brother Buzz]

54. He probably had a woody thinking we're waist deep in America's latest military quagmire.

Where will it be? North Korea? Iran? California? Anything’s possible with Commander Cuckoo-Bananas in charge.

[backscatter712]

6. It's like watching Downfall, aka Der Untergang.

That movie's famous for the widely re-subtitled Hitler rant, but the whole movie is worth watching, just to see Hitler completely out of touch with reality and sanity.

Yes, Lord Dampnut reminds me of that...

[KittyWampus]

7. who could possibly leak this? A 3am phone call between Flynn and Trump? Smells fishy.

I think it's bullsh*t.

And I think Bannon throws this crap out on purpose.

[Amaryllis]

10. What would be Bannon's purpose in throwing this out on purpose?

[KittyWampus]

12. More insigificant nonsense talked about rather than Trump's lying to sheriffs

about murder rate.

[Amaryllis]

14. sounds about right. experts in the art of distraction.

[SCVDem]

29. Remember the Russians and the election?

So many distractions!

[tblue37]

20. Flynn complains to someone about it, and that someone either leaks it or tells someone else who

leaks it.

It could happen.

[progressoid]

45. Trump would have to have someone do this for him since he can't work the phones.

And talk of a call to Flynn at 3 a.m. would raise a lot of flags and people would notice.

It's not implausible.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Must read more...

Kick

[spiderpig]

9. I'm no mental health professional, but it's been obvious for decades

that this clown has delusions of grandeur and a dangerous attitude of entitlement.

He is also illiterate, crude and disgusting.

He's also a compulsive liar.

As much as we criticize DC, I'm absolutely gobsmacked that this idiot is in the Oval Office. And I lived through Nixon, Reagan and two Bushes.

[3catwoman3]

63. He also has delusions...

...of competence.

[Cha]

11. Yeah, then fucking DO SOMETHING!

[brush]

13. It's been only two and a half weeks and already this admin is a laughing stock

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The travel ban, Devos, the glaringly incompetent plagiarist is the Education Secretary, a white supremacist is a top advisor and is on the

NSC, The trump ok'd Yemen raid was a tragic debacle that resulted in some 30 people dead, a known racist has been nominated to

SCOTUS, he's fallen out the presidents of Mexico and Australia, the the British parliament has refuse to let him address the body,

Chancellor Angela Merkel had to explain the Geneva Conventions to him, his admin misspelled British PM Theresa May's name he's holed

up alone in the White House at night as it's pretty apparent that his wife doesn't want to be with him (DC undoubtedly has great private

schools for her son). . . God, WTF is next?

[Glimmer of Hope]

15. He doesn't understand the USD?

I am still baffled that some think he is intelligent. He is far from it. And who picks up the phone at 3am? That is just wacky.

[ecstatic]

25. lol. 3AM call from the President could indicate an actual emergency,

so yeah, Flynn was pretty much forced to pick up. lol

[Glimmer of Hope]

32. Oh yea. He is not really President in my world. Lol..

[lunatica]

62. Trump calling someone at 3am is nothing more than crank call

The question is, how will he read when he gets the 3am call.

[meadowlander]

55. It's not that he doesn't understand the USD,

it's that his first impulse when he doesn't know something isn't to Google it and learn something. It's to call a random person he trusts and get them to explain it to him/make the decision for him.

This is why he's so easy to manipulate.

[grantcart]

16. SME Significant Medical Event

When the body is fighting with the mind the body always wins.

[Ilsa]

17. Dammit, when is someone going to go on record

and give us proof of Trump's inappropriate behavior?

[RainCaster]

31. What good would that do?

Until the GOP has had enough, it would do no good.

[Blaukraut]

19. Why, might I ask, is anybody surprised??

Trump went out of his way to show the world that he is, at best, incompetent, and at worst, insane. His parasites were well aware from the beginning. My guess would be they thought they could 'manage' him. Well, evidently, nobody manages Trump.

[tblue37]

21. NOBODY puts Big Baby in the corner! nt

[ecstatic]

22. 3AM WTF? Flynn probably shit his pants when he looked at the caller ID!

Only to realize it was a call about the US Dollar? You know things are bad when even crazy Flynn is talking trash and gossiping.

[Leith]

23. They Are Alarmed by His Conduct?

What the hell took them so long? The guy has been looney tunes for decades.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. It's just a symptomatic crucible of policy and back-stabbing

They have no liberal or progressive opposition to work against
so the anger and bitterness has to go somewhere

[bdamomma]

26. it seems like these

"leaks" are consistently coming out to inform us that this man/child is not well at all. He is definitely off the rails. I really think it is a matter of time before he has a meltdown or psychotic episode.

Too bad they couldn't all go to Russia and leave us alone.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. "sometimes petty chief executive"

Sometimes? That's a good one.

[kwassa]

33. The massive amount of leaking make this administration fascinating.

There is zero loyalty among the new staffers. I've never seen anything like this. I live in the DC area, know many people who have been heavily involved in the political scene here. Including a close friend who worked in the Clinton White House for years.

This is unprecedented and unpredictable. Completely new territory.

[OldRedneck]

34. And let's hope . . .

. . . they keep it up!!!

The Trump Freak Show does not understand that the national sport of DC is NOT football, hockey, basketball, or soccer -- it's LEAKING . . . and damn near everyone in DC is a world class leaker!!!

[kwassa]

36. Leaks are usually strategic, though ....

and there is nothing at all strategic about his. It more an expression of shock and dismay.

[dalton99a]

35. "I went to the Wharton School of Finance. I'm, like, a really smart person."

- July 11, 2015

[SoCalDem]

38. also has a "good brain"..and "good words"

whattaloser

[3catwoman3]

64. Loser indeed. Good words, my ass.

His vocabulary is pathetically limited.

I had a 6 yr old patient a couple of days ago who was learnedly discussing the meanings of transparent, translucent and opaque. I'd like to see SCROTUS do that.

[Stellar]

39. K&R nt

[Nitram]

46. It's just a matter of time.

the harder they come, the harder they fall.

[Puzzler]

49. Well they have a firm grasp of the obvious (n/t)

-P

[Denzil_DC]

50. I was skimming in a hurry,

and misread the OP title as "Leaks Suggest Trump Is Alarmed By His Own Conduct."

I guess that may be next week's leak.

[wordpix]

51. Not exercising, eating fatty burgers w/white buns, overweightinsomnia

and he's crazy besides

[romuluszero]

57. Check your signature, and ask yourself: who was Chief Seattle?

Chief Seattle never even existed lol, look it up under:
white appropriation
"Seattle's letter" written by white dude, no joke
sorry for my 1st post

[Schema Thing]

58. Chief Seattle certainly did exist, you ponce.

His famous speech has been rewritten and was never adequately transcribed, so we don't know exactly what was said - but it was very much a real thing.

[meadowlander]

66. Except, you know,

we have a photo of him and his descendants still live in Washington. I met some of them on a school trip in the 80s. He only died 150 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle

[Bernardo de La Paz]

67. Hmm some kind of first post, it seems. Welcome to DU.

Chief Seattle (c. 1786 – June 7, 1866) was a Suquamish Tribe (Suquamish) and Dkhw'Duw'Absh (Duwamish) chief.[2] A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with "Doc" Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him. A widely publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and respect of Native Americans' land rights had been attributed to him. However, what he actually said has been lost through translation and rewriting.

The name Seattle is an anglicization of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed spelling siʔaɫ IPA: [ˈsiʔaːɬ]. He is also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth.

1864:

[silverweb]

53. Isn't Twitler allowed to google?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Oh, wait... that would require reading and comprehension of words.

Nevermind.

[Beartracks]

56. "The Dumbest Guys in the Room" n/t

[NewJeffCT]

59. But, at least he didn't send emails from a private server

oops, I guess he did that, too.

[Progressive dog]

60. I'm alarmed by his team's conduct.

Most of them are trying to destroy the US government in league with the psychopath in chief. Anything that slows them is good.

[McCamy Taylor]

65. He meant to ask "Is a strong dollar good for Russia's economy?"

Flynn being one of Putin's folks, I am sure Trump thought he would know.