The Wheels Are Coming Off the White House

[DonViejo]

July 27, 2017 at 9:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

First Read: “Accusations of incompetency can undermine even the most talented of politicians. Just ask George W. Bush (Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina) or Barack Obama (HealthCare.Gov).”

“But while the events and news over the last 24 hours seem like just another day for the Trump White House, they expose a level of dysfunction and chaos that could leave a lasting mark for a president who said back in February that he was running a ‘fine-tuned machine.'”

“The whole point of electing a businessman to become president was expecting someone to effectively run the government. But what happens when that businessman can’t run the government? That’s the significant long-term danger for Trump and his administration.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/27/wheels-coming-off-white-house/

[uponit7771]

1. They came off after Red Don Jr's sons emails ... were watching them slowly

... move away from the vehicle as the vehicle one at a time while the vehicle rolls down the highway at 67 mph... happened to me once, thank God

[RKP5637]

2. A businessman was elected, but one who is deranged! n/t

[NightWatcher]

3. When electing a businessman, first make sure he was a successful businessman

and that he was not just propped up by a foreign country because they were using his incompetence to launder billions under his failing business skills.

[livetohike]

7. Pretty much what I was going to type. Pick a businessman

who doesn't have a string of bankruptcies!

[spooky3]

10. +1

[Maraya1969]

15. Better make sure the businessman is not a sociopath too.

CEO sociopath rates are double the average rates. The traits of a cutthroat businessman are too high in my opinion.

Unless they are like Ben and Jerry

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Things don't have to be true....they just have to say they are, that is all that matters....

brand not substance as long as the money keeps coming and the gibbering adulators keep on stroking Donnie's narcissism.

The healthcare bill does not have work or even be successful. It just has to get done so Donnie can brag and lie.

[Johonny]

5. It's become just another reality game show-only he doesn't have the guts to fire people

instead he just tweets bad things about them hoping they go away...Leadership!

[xor]

6. Wheels? What wheels?

They've been sliding around this whole time.

[lame54]

8. That's ok - the house repugs...

Are willing to drag it over the finish line

[Orrex]

9. Yeah, they've been coming off since the afternoon of Jan 20, 2017

If only we had some governmental body empowered to do something about it.

[rickford66]

11. Trump: "Reince, look out the window. Check the wheels."

Reince: "The White House doesn't have wheeeels."

[Caliman73]

12. Glad I hit that first link

I was about to mildly scold Mr./Ms.? Goddard for that first line:

“Accusations of incompetency can undermine even the most talented of politicians. Just ask George W. Bush (Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina) or Barack Obama (HealthCare.Gov).”

to put the word talented and George W Bush in the same line is ridiculous. Then I saw it was Chuck Todd who is one of the authors of the original article and thought, "Well Todd is the pre-eminent boot licker". President Obama's roll out of Healthcare.gov was pretty amateur hour for a talented president. W's invasion of Iraq was not incompetence, it was criminal. His response to Katrina and his general presidency was marked by incompetence, as was his governorship of Texas, and basically every other thing he has done in his life.

Trump is the same. Without daddy's money Trump would have ended up in prison or wearing cement shoes in the East River a long time ago.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. shown here!

[C_U_L8R]

14. Finally, we can toss out that old BS claim

Running government like a business is a horrible idea.
Especially when the businessman is a dope like Donald Fucking Trump.

[jberryhill]

17. Wheels?

[Orsino]

20. Training wheels. n/t

[Drahthaardogs]

18. They keep saying this and Trump keeps getting his way

Meanwhile his approval rat still hovers around 38%


Has anyone ever considered that CHAOS is his strategy and the more the better?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Given the businessman couldn't actually run his own businesses, why are we surprised?

Trump steak, anyone?

[maxsolomon]

21. the whole point of electing THIS businessman

is to burn the Federal Government to the ground.

which isn't really what "real republicans" had in mind. the tea party and their ilk, however...

[Paladin]

22. Those wheels aren't detaching nearly fast enough to suit me.

We need some coast-to-coast public demonstrations to move the process along. Resistance is patriotism.

[Skittles]

23. how STUPID are the people who thought Trump was a great businessman

he is a BULLY, a CON MAN who has been PROPPED UP BY RUSSIA FOR DECADES