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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGabe Sherman's Latest (VF): His base is revolting, his staff are rolling their eyes, & Ann Coulter..
called him a joke. But, says a self-pitying president, Macron is worse.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/trump-is-flailing-fuming-and-jealous-of-jared
For weeks, Donald Trump had been scheduled to fly to Palm Beach on Friday to begin a two-week Christmas vacation at Mar-a-Lago, but those plans are in doubt as Washington hurtles toward a partial government shutdown after Trump insisted Thursday he would veto any spending bill that did not include billions of dollars for his border wall. Trumps renewed veto threat capped a chaotic three-day period in which the president briefly gave up on the wall, enraging his base, and then walked back his walk-back in a head-spinning capitulation. Hes over. Hes finished, one Breitbart staffer told me. Inside the White House, some advisers fear hes boxed himself in, with disastrous results in every direction. Hes losing it, one former West Wing official said. He doesnt know which way to turn.
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As his supporters turned on him, Trump took a self-pitying attitude. He complained to one friend that European leaders were doing much worse. The world is melting down! Look at France. Those riots are costing them a billion dollars a day! he said, according to a person briefed on the conversation. Trump told another friend that the only person in the White House who gets good press is Jared Kushner. In an apparent bid to change the narrative, Trump announced he was withdrawing the 2,000 United States troops in Syria, but that only compounded the crisis by spurring Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign. It was some reverse wag-the-dog bullshit, a Republican close to the White House told me.
Now, Trump has hours to negotiate his way out of one of the worst crises of his presidency. No matter what happens, allies fear the episode has revealed Trumps inability to govern at a moment when Democrats are about to open political warfare on the White House. Theyre absolutely going to crush him. He has no idea whats coming his way, the Republican said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Gabe Sherman's Latest (VF): His base is revolting, his staff are rolling their eyes, & Ann Coulter.. (Original Post)
hlthe2b
Dec 2018
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regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)1. He thinks Jared's getting good press...???
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)2. He's gotten some recently (Crime Bill)
JI7
(89,252 posts)3. he probably thinks it's good press when people joke about Jared being appointed to other positions
like chief of staff, defense sec etc.
edbermac
(15,941 posts)4. President Queeg.
I literally think Trump would act like this if interviewed by Mueller.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)5. the Cowardly Don reveals himself
Will his "base" see just how chickenshit he is, now?