White House aides lean on delays and distraction to manage Trump
Source: Politico
In interviews, senior staff and others close to the president have described a series of guardrails they use to push the president away from rash decisions.
By JOSH DAWSEY 10/09/2017 05:19 PM EDT
As White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus mused to associates that telling President Donald Trump no was usually not an effective strategy. Telling him next week was often the better idea.
Trump would impulsively want to fire someone like attorney general Jeff Sessions, create a new wideranging policy with farflung implications like increasing tariffs on Chinese steel imports or end a decadesold deal like the North American Free Trade Agreement. Enraged with a TV segment or frustrated after a meandering meeting, the president would order it done immediately.
Delaying the decision would give Priebus and others a chance to change his mind or bring in advisers to speak with Trump and in some cases, to ensure Trump would drop the idea altogether and move on.
Publicly, the White House has pushed back against Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker suggesting Trump must be managed like a toddler he called the White House an adult day care center on Twitter Sunday. In a separate New York Times interview, Corker said aides are forced to spend their days trying to keep the president from going off the rails.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/trump-aides-guard-rails-243608
Irish_Dem
(46,492 posts)sakabatou
(42,136 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tanyev
(42,516 posts)That would work best if they get Ivanka or Hope to do it.
7962
(11,841 posts)kstewart33
(6,551 posts)A must-read for all.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Get him out of there ASAP! I keep singing the Sex Pistols " God Save the Queen" lyrics "It's a fascist regime.. NO FUTURE! NO FUTURE!..."
Marthe48
(16,898 posts)Do the aides who spew this crap even listen to what they are saying? This is like Caligula marrying his horse. Every day.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Jesus Fornicating Christ this country is in DEEP shit.
benld74
(9,901 posts)Is to tell them next week or tomorrow
Heck I used it to avoid temper tantrums with my own kids in the past
ThoughtCriminal
(14,046 posts)The incompetence stops or delays policy moves that are universally destructive and evil.
nini
(16,672 posts)It's not like Pence is going to sign off on all the crap they want.
They are both scum.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Remember the good old days (seems so long ago) when we had an ADULT in the WH, with competant, educated people around him? The go picks their stupid, bottom of the barrel, ignorant candidates to "lead their party" I think they outdid themselves this time.
Sam McGee
(347 posts)I'm really, really confused -- maybe someone can un-confuse me -- tell me:
IS THIS THE PRESIDENT OF THE USofA, OR, IT THIS THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW???
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)the Jerry Springer Show is the USofA.
7962
(11,841 posts)people playing parts
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He is a smart man, and a democratic supporter. He would have made a better president than tRump. Her is an idea for a fundraiser for tRump. On the WH lawn, have Ivana and Maleria naked mud wrestle, with Marla as MC. Those classy ladies tRump marries would likely go for it if the prize was high enough.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)TeamPooka
(24,207 posts)2nd one down about Honey translating for Mao in a story she tells Duke
http://www.weeklystorybook.com/comic_strip_of_the_daycom/2010/07/flashback-back-way-back.html
Journeyman
(15,024 posts)Appreciate your finding this. Great minds and all (yours just seems better attuned to the internet).
DavidDvorkin
(19,468 posts)Journeyman
(15,024 posts)Honey Huan worked as translator for Mao himself. She revealed to US Ambassador Duke that she was one of the few people who still understood him with his rural dialect and health problems, and even she wasn't sure what he said sometimes. Specifically, she was afraid she might have caused the Cultural Revolution by mistranslating a lunch order.
Not to mention her having to take Mao's indecisive nature into account when she translated for him.
On one occasion, Mao told her to send word for the Great Wall of China to be destroyed. She tells him the next day it had been dismantled.
A week later, Mao tells her he's changed his mind and wants the entire Wall rebuilt exactly as it was.
Honey tells the Chairman she personally devised a plan which got the entire Wall rebuilt in one day.
Honey then reveals to Duke she actually spent the whole week watching TV, but "Mao thinks I'm a genius."
To which Duke replies "In a way, Honey, you are."
TeamPooka
(24,207 posts)Journeyman
(15,024 posts)TeamPooka
(24,207 posts)Journeyman
(15,024 posts)I'm certain his dementia (or weak mind, however we wish to characterize it), creates opportunities galore for his staff to manipulate him in so many ways.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)stabbed themselves in the back and totally lied to every person in America.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the money from Russia was GOOD for their party.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)IMO, Russia home grows Is terrorists in their wilder outback, funds terrorists. They foment violence and pay "troublemakers" inside the USA. Republican party takes money/colludes with that country, helps them hurt our democracy. it's disgusting!