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TRUMP SEETHES AS ADVISERS FEAR THE PRESIDENT IS UNRAVELING
At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now its clear that Bob Corkers remarkable New York Times interviewin which the Republican senator described the White House as adult day care and warned Trump could start World War IIIwas an inflection point in the Trump presidency. It brought into the open what several people close to the president have recently told me in private: that Trump is unstable, losing a step, and unraveling.
The conversation among some of the presidents longtime confidantes, along with the character of some of the leaks emerging from the White House has shifted. Theres a new level of concern. NBC News published a report that Trump shocked his national security team when he called for a nearly tenfold increase in the countrys nuclear arsenal during a briefing this summer. One Trump adviser confirmed to me it was after this meeting disbanded that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a moron.
In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trumps ire is being fueled by his stalled legislative agenda and, to a surprising degree, by his decision last month to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary. Alabama was a huge blow to his psyche, a person close to Trump said. He saw the cult of personality was broken.
According to two sources familiar with the conversation, Trump vented to his longtime security chief, Keith Schiller, I hate everyone in the White House! There are a few exceptions, but I hate them! (A White House official denies this.) Two senior Republican officials said Chief of Staff John Kelly is miserable in his job and is remaining out of a sense of duty to keep Trump from making some sort of disastrous decision. Today, speculation about Kellys future increased after Politico reported that Kellys deputy Kirstjen Nielsen is likely to be named Homeland Security Secretarythe theory among some Republicans is that Kelly wanted to give her a soft landing before his departure.
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MFM008
(19,806 posts)especially him.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)or use similar language to suggest Trump is about to pay a price for his reckless behavior? We've been at this same point for two years now. It gets worse and worse, but there is still no indication that the Congress, the Cabinet or the People will intervene. It's not an inflection point until one of those grouos actually does something other that whisper quietly amongst themselves.