"He nailed it, and he knew it," said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president. But then...OOPS!

[Miles Archer]

The mood at the White House on Tuesday night was different altogether — jubilant. Trump returned from the Capitol shortly before midnight to find his staff assembled in the residence cheering him. Finally, they all thought, they had seized control. The president had even laid off Twitter outbursts — a small victory for a staff often unable to drive a disciplined message.

“He nailed it, and he knew it,” said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president.

The merriment came to a sudden end on Wednesday night, when The Washington Post first reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador despite having said under oath at his Senate confirmation hearing that he had no contact with the Russians.

Inside the West Wing, Trump’s top aides were furious with the defenses of Sessions offered by the Justice Department’s public affairs division and felt blindsided that Sessions’s aides had not consulted the White House earlier in the process, according to one senior White House official.

The next morning, Trump exploded, according to White House officials. He headed to Newport News, Va., on Thursday for a splashy commander-in-chief moment. The president would trumpet his plan to grow military spending aboard the Navy’s sophisticated new aircraft carrier. But as Trump, sporting a bomber jacket and Navy cap, rallied sailors and shipbuilders, his message was overshadowed by Sessions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-fury-the-president-rages-at-leaks-setbacks-and-accusations/2017/03/05/40713af4-01df-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html

[MineralMan]

1. Trump is often his own worst enemy.

He doesn't know that, of course. He had the media eating out of his hand after that speech to Congress. They were all ready to declare him "Presidential" and move on to cover high-speed police chases as breaking news. But, then, Sessions and Tweets took over once again, and Trump's fleeting moment of sanity came to a crashing halt.

That's his pattern, and I doubt very much that it will change.

[BSdetect]

2. There was no "moment of sanity" in his speech.

Watch the video of Ryan smirking as scrotus makes his very first remarks about petty fights.

The maniac loves attention and the msm gives it to him endlessly.

They are gullible and complicit in this disaster.

[dalton99a]

3. They deserve his contempt.

He manipulated them like marionettes, kept them in pens like animals, and they faithfully carried his message for him like obedient little children.

[Achilleaze]

4. Yep, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief definitely "nailed it"

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[WhiteTara]

6. Side note...he really tapes

his tie together...what a doofus.