The Trump White House has entered its final stage: complete meltdown

[marmar]

The Trump White House has entered its final stage: complete meltdown
Richard Wolffe

Trump has retreated to the proverbial bunker with an ‘elite strike force’ of wingnuts and lackeys. They’re all he’s got left
Mon 21 Dec 2020 16.36 EST


(Guardian UK) The last days of the Trump presidency increasingly resemble the fictional presidency in the movie Monsters vs Aliens.

In case you missed this 2009 animated masterpiece, President Hathaway (voiced by Stephen Colbert) responds to an alien invasion with a team of unlikely heroes, among them a giant-sized TV reporter from Modesto, a cockroach-turned-mad-scientist, and an enormous blob of Jell-O.

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In the final month of Donald Trump’s time in the Oval Office, he has at last assembled his own team of outsized odds and ends, self-aggrandizing wingnuts, and brainless lumps of gelatin. You can decide for yourself if this latest incarnation of his “elite strike force” of advisers is more likely to launch all the nuclear weapons or make a fresh cup of coffee.

At the center of the team to save Planet Trump are the unhinged characters of Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn, who reportedly met with the soon-to-be-ex-president in the White House over several hours on Friday.

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Normal presidents treat their final weeks in office like a presidential marshmallow test. While they may want, desperately, to opine about everything the president-elect is doing, they delay their gratification for their memoirs. ...........(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/21/trump-administration-last-days-white-house?

[Karadeniz]

1. Always embarrassing when you see that other countries can see our dirty laundry more clearly

Than half of us can!

[Blue Owl]

2. It's the Final Meltdown

[chriscan64]

3. That made me laugh.

And then I realized, he always seems to have another meltdown when you think he's out of them. He'll have them in the future while Jimmy Carter builds houses. But as president, yes, it is The Final Meltdown for this 4 years that felt like 8.