Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles

[riversedge]

What--no more chaos???




https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&src=trending&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Trending&pgtype=article





Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles

By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANFEB. 5, 2017


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..............Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. “Did you hear that, this guy thinks it’s been terrible!” Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.

But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.

Mr. Trump got away from the White House this weekend for the first time since his inauguration, spending it in Palm Beach, Fla., at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, posting Twitter messages angrily — and in personal terms — about the federal judge who put a nationwide halt on the travel ban. Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the two clashing power centers, traveled with him.

By then, the president, for whom chains of command and policy minutiae rarely meant much, was demanding that Mr. Priebus begin to put in effect a much more conventional White House protocol that had been taken for granted in previous administrations: From now on, Mr. Trump would be looped in on the drafting of executive orders much earlier in the process.

Another change will be a new set of checks on the previously unfettered power enjoyed by Mr. Bannon and the White House policy director, Stephen Miller, who oversees the implementation of the orders and who received the brunt of the internal and public criticism for the rollout of the travel ban.........................

[Hortensis]

1. Top trending article at the Times. Most interesting

of all to me was THIS: "But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban."

Really? Wonder how Trump liked SNL's skit about President Bannon...

"But for the moment..." Bannon is so scary he makes rival Priebus and the Koch caucus look almost wholesome in comparison. Almost.

[JHB]

2. Kremlin Don didn't take it well, if his morning nit-twits are any indication...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!

Link to tweet

"Accumulation of data"? Is that what they're calling this stuff these days?

[Hortensis]

4. Lol. Must be. His ADD doesn't allow info accumulation.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. We need the chaos contained for the safety of the country

But I don't want for Republicans to be able to paper over what a disaster he is politically. I want his approval rating to stay low and his agenda crippled until we can vote for a new POTUS. Fortunately, he seems to be doing a pretty good job of that on his own and I doubt that anybody around him other than Bannon could bring him to heel.