Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties
Source: Los Angeles Times
For weeks this fall, an ebullient President Trump traveled relentlessly to hold raise-the-rafters campaign rallies sometimes three a day in states where his presence was likely to help Republicans on the ballot.
But his mood apparently has changed as he has taken measure of the electoral backlash that voters delivered Nov. 6. With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment, according to multiple administration sources.
Behind the scenes, they say, the president has lashed out at several aides, from junior press assistants to senior officials. Hes furious, said one administration official. Most staffers are trying to avoid him.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, painted a picture of a brooding president trying to decide who to blame for Republicans election losses, even as he publicly and implausibly continues to claim victory.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-absent-20181113-story.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Sounds like an ordinary day at the office to me.....
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)Then the L.A. (L.ying A.lways) Times complains that he wouldn't answer reporters' shouted questions.
For example, (shouted question) "Mr. President, is it true you are now stark, raving mad?"
Trump --- silence.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)This has been my sig for a long time...
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)And if the nattering nabobs of negativism have their way, a great pres'dent is gonna be drummed out of office.
rickford66
(5,523 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)with all that traveling for rallies. I bet he is dog tired now. He is 72 and fat.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I am planning a big ass party for the day his heart does explode...can't wait, my Nov. 2016 bottle of champagne is waiting for it...
NCjack
(10,279 posts)standing on his chest.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)2 divorces, 3 marriages, 4 bankruptcies, defended 50 law suits, sex with multiple porn stars, Multiple hush hush blackmail payments, and 60 lbs overweight? Actually considering all of that he has gone through, he looks like a survivor.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)who started with his father...i.e...Guy Who Knows Everything. Also, pretty steady reporting of the possible impending arrest of DJT, Jr. Not that he cares much about him...likely last on the list of worries were it not for The Meeting. Now you mention it and all things considered, he is doing pretty well just to get up in the morning.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)He knows other world leaders are laughing at him.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...reason.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... he just didn't know it.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Last week, on a post-election NPR show, I heard Nancy Pelosi's description of him:
Much, much more dangerous than a pouting child.
And he should be treated as a dangerous, wounded animal. Cheese-us! The nuclear "football" is within the grasp of this dangerous beast's pudgy, tiny, Big-Mac-special-sauce-covered fingers.
In the aftermath of Watergate, if ever there was a scenario where the 25th Amendment should be invoked, now is the time!
matt819
(10,749 posts)He's not doing his fucking job.
Now that I see that in writing, maybe it's for the best?
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)The one thing he can't handle is being viewed as a loser, and he knows that's exactly what he looks like on a worldwide stage right now.
maxsolomon
(33,321 posts)Narcissists can only blame others for their failures.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)75 endorsed or strongly backed candidates...
21 won, 54 lost
That's a winning percentage (0.280) so bad that it would be right there with the worst baseball teams in history (going 45-117 for a full season)...it is not quite as bad in football, where he would be a 4-12 team...Basketball? Try 23-59...ouch!
People should start following him around and chant "TWENTY EIGHT PERCENT!!! TWENTY EIGHT PERCENT!!!"...at first he wouldn't get it, but once someone explained to to his pea-brain, he'd NEVER be able to handle it. He'd be in a straight jacket in an hour!
at140
(6,110 posts)notice he only campaigned for senate candidates who were in danger of losing.
52 repugs in senate is his wall against removal from office. If dems won Indiana, FL,
TN & Missouri, Donny would be back living in Mar-a-Lago!
William Seger
(10,778 posts)... like acting like a decent human being.
Javaman
(62,521 posts)because the last time I checked the orange asshole hasn't done a fucking thing "presidential.
so by "retreating" does that mean he's eating more mcdonalds and watching even more tv?
underpants
(182,788 posts)This really reminds me of Al Franken's "Why Not Me?"
It's actually not a very good book but the story sounds eerily similar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Not_Me%3F_(novel)
The Presidency
The Void, a book supposedly written by Bob Woodward, describes Franken's brief and turbulent tenure at the White House. After Franken makes a bizarre inauguration speech apologizing for slavery, the resulting backlash sends Franken into depression. Franken's aides give him anti-depressant drugs, but this causes Franken to display strange behavior. Franken has himself cloned, punches Nelson Mandela in the stomach during a state meeting, and hatches a dangerous plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein by flying to Iraq and hitting him with a plaque that reads, "World's Greatest Grandpa." Congress forms a committee to investigate Franken's mood swings, which leads to the unraveling of his administration. After his diary is publicized, Franken is forced to resign.
mastermind
(229 posts)so, in other words, is doing what he usually does, eat cheeseburgers while watching fox news.
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)in this trend, what are the normal duties etc. that this guy do, that can even be considered presidential? Golf? Vacation? Eating cheeseburgers? Tweeting like crap as he always does?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)or did they mean he hasn't been out golfing this week?
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... and that's all he's been doing since October 1st. So really, we don't have a President any more. The White House occupant is just taking up space until further notice.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)lilactime
(657 posts)D23MIURG23
(2,849 posts)As much as I like to hear that dump is suffering it's shitty to hear that he is doing things that are pissing off our allies and trading partners. This struck me as especially bad:
Just as Trump was returning to Washington on Sunday evening, Pence was heading to Asia in the presidents place, and at his first stop greeted Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Trumps absence, experts said, is notable, and a glaring affront to many Asian leaders.
It matters more in Asia than other regions because face is so important, said Matthew P. Goodman, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former White House coordinator for Asia-Pacific strategy during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. Your willingness to go out there is a sign you're committed and not going is a sign you're not.
It seems any credibility we may have gained as a nation from Obama's presidency has been undone cheeto face. The bottom half of the electorate has succeeded in shooting our country in the foot again.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)We elected Clinton, then after two terms screwed that up with W. After that disaster, we elected Obama for two terms. But then we proved that we could hit bottom with Trump.
So even if we find another FDR, other countries have come to realize that we will probably follow up after 8 years with a new burning toxic-dump of stupid and evil.
We are going to need a generation to recover - starting when the cycle ends.
BumRushDaShow
(128,898 posts)This is how it has been for at least 30 years. It's his perpetual state of operation. Example - the below was written in 1990 NOT yesterday!
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES WITH M. A. FARBER JUNE 7, 1990
<...>
A Risk-Filled Business
In the seven months since a freak helicopter accident robbed him of his top casino executives, Mr. Trump has for the first time become directly involved in running these complex operations with thousands of employees, where management risk is as ever-present as chance at the gaming tables.
Since then, his casinos have been undermined by an exodus of senior managers, some of whom were dismissed and others who left complaining of Mr. Trump's overbearing and idiosyncratic style. Surviving staff members complain of low morale. Bills are not being paid on time, vendors say. And state regulators, growing more concerned, have stepped up a broad inquiry into all his holdings.
In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has been huddled with his bankers, who are concerned about his ability to keep making timely payments on the debt he used to accumulate such properties as the Plaza Hotel and the Trump Shuttle. Underlying those talks is his need for cash, which his casinos could satisfy through either strong performance or by fetching high prices on the auction block.
<...>
Since he took a more direct hand in his casino operations late last year, he has fired a number of senior managers. Others have walked out in disgust. ''I simply didn't want to work for Donald Trump any longer,'' said Jack O'Donnell, the former president of the Trump Plaza and a well-regarded gaming industry executive who quit last month. Mr. Trump has lashed out publicly at his own top aides in press interviews and on television, balked at complying with severance agreements and appointed executives to positions for which they seem to have little relevant experience. The result has been a level of friction that has become the talk of the industry - and that has made it increasingly hard for him to recruit managers.''People who work there are terrified,'' one regulator said. ''People are hiding under their desks.''
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/07/business/empire-risk-trump-s-atlantic-city-debt-forcing-trump-play-for-higher-stakes.html
No one had to "read the tea leaves" here. The handwriting was in the papers for decades.
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FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Even though you were posting to another commenter, this is HELLA good!
ffr
(22,669 posts)LOCK HIM UP!
world wide wally
(21,741 posts)Womp, womp
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He is not smart and he isn't educated. He was campaigning the only way he knew how--fighting the last battle of 2016, and it did not work.
He's a one trick pony.
James48
(4,435 posts)...retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment,
How is that any different?
Thats exactly Trump. Bitterness and resentment.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)A wounded animal will strike out in panic and desperation. Is there ANYONE sane in the White House who is able to withstand his rage? Any Congressional Republican willing to put country over party and tell him it's over, as Goldwater did to Nixon?
Oh. Nevermind.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)When the hell has Adolph Rumpus engaged in traditional presidential duties!?!?
There is NOTHING that is either traditional or normal about the way this fascist operates in the history of US politics.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Calories in Mcdonald's Big Mac Meal With Fries and Coke With No Onions
Calories 1,120 Sodium 1,240 mg
Total Fat 48 g Potassium -- mg
Saturated 13 g Total Carbs 148 g
Polyunsaturated -- g Dietary Fiber 8 g
Monounsaturated -- g Sugars 65 g
Trans 2 g Protein 29 g
Cholesterol 75 mg
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/mcdonalds-big-mac-meal-with-fries-and-coke-with-no-onions-113208356
*Everyday
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)W T F
(1,146 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." ...