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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut": Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, ...
Donald Trump plans to head to Mar-a-Lago for a 16-day Christmas vacation starting Fridayand West Wing officials, remembering previous sojourns, are on edge at the prospect of the president spending two weeks unsupervised. As the Robert Mueller loop tightens around the president, his erratic behavior is causing alarm among his most senior staff. The staff is fed up hes acting like a nut. They cant get him to stop tweeting, a former official said.
Trump still has the ability to compartmentalize, and his mood has yo-yoed. Last night, he was jovial at a White House Christmas party attended by Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ryan Zinke, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Diamond and Silk. He truly lives in separate worlds, another former official observed. Trumps advisers, however, recognize the precariousness of the current political moment. In one sign of the discontent in the West Wing, Communications Director Bill Shine has told friends that hes thinking about signing a month-to-month lease for his Washington apartment, according to a source. Bill is very frustrated, a person familiar with his thinking said.
Trumps freewheeling search to replace John Kelly as chief of staff unnerved Ivanka and Jared Kushner, three sources briefed on the discussions said. Trump, who was annoyed at Kushner after Kushners pick, Nick Ayers, turned down the job, told people he was seriously considering Citizens United president David Bossie. Kushner told people that giving Bossie the job would empower Bossies friend and co-author Corey Lewandowski, a longtime Kushner nemesis. (Last week, Bossie and Lewandowski met with Trump at the White House, a source said.) Bossie is also an ally of Steve Bannon, another Kushner enemy. Jared got Steve Mnuchin and his buddies to tell Trump no way, a source briefed on the discussions said. With few candidates available or willing to take the job, Kushner pushed Trump to name budget director Mick Mulvaney chief of staff. They announced it as acting but hes chief. They only did that so if he and Trump hate each other they have an off-ramp, the source said.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/west-wing-braces-for-christmas-madness-more-departures-and-mueller
Trump still has the ability to compartmentalize, and his mood has yo-yoed. Last night, he was jovial at a White House Christmas party attended by Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ryan Zinke, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Diamond and Silk. He truly lives in separate worlds, another former official observed. Trumps advisers, however, recognize the precariousness of the current political moment. In one sign of the discontent in the West Wing, Communications Director Bill Shine has told friends that hes thinking about signing a month-to-month lease for his Washington apartment, according to a source. Bill is very frustrated, a person familiar with his thinking said.
Trumps freewheeling search to replace John Kelly as chief of staff unnerved Ivanka and Jared Kushner, three sources briefed on the discussions said. Trump, who was annoyed at Kushner after Kushners pick, Nick Ayers, turned down the job, told people he was seriously considering Citizens United president David Bossie. Kushner told people that giving Bossie the job would empower Bossies friend and co-author Corey Lewandowski, a longtime Kushner nemesis. (Last week, Bossie and Lewandowski met with Trump at the White House, a source said.) Bossie is also an ally of Steve Bannon, another Kushner enemy. Jared got Steve Mnuchin and his buddies to tell Trump no way, a source briefed on the discussions said. With few candidates available or willing to take the job, Kushner pushed Trump to name budget director Mick Mulvaney chief of staff. They announced it as acting but hes chief. They only did that so if he and Trump hate each other they have an off-ramp, the source said.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/west-wing-braces-for-christmas-madness-more-departures-and-mueller
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"The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut": Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, ... (Original Post)
demmiblue
Dec 2018
OP
Make that a "rotting, partially digested, slimy nut with a matted, slightly attached toupee." n/t
Judi Lynn
Dec 2018
#6
Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)1. Sounds like material for a new Hallmark holiday movie
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)2. He isn't "acting" like a nut, he IS a nut.
He would have to "act" like a sane person if there was any acting going on in the W House.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)6. Make that a "rotting, partially digested, slimy nut with a matted, slightly attached toupee." n/t
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)7. Well said!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. All these worried, concerned, and frustrated aides
But not one complete vertebra among them.
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)4. The WH staff has even less control over trump when he is out of WH
winstars
(4,220 posts)5. "Jared got Steve Mnuchin and his buddies to tell Trump no way," WTF? Are we in the 5th grade?
Grammar school shit.
Cha
(297,687 posts)8. Fascist Slime at a Christmas
party.. how special.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,430 posts)9. it's a conspiracy
Notice how photos of Don The Con have gotten a little ... unflattering lately?
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5c1945aec7fa322cb240f565/master/w_790,c_limit/Trump-white-house-Nutjob.jpg
lostnfound
(16,191 posts)10. Such a well-run White House. Nt