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applegrove

(118,492 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:16 AM Jan 2019

Book by Former Staff Member Describes a White House 'Out of Control'

Book by Former Staff Member Describes a White House ‘Out of Control’

Cliff Sims, a former communications staff member and Trump loyalist, is one of the few people to attach his name to descriptions of goings-on at the White House that are not always flattering to President Trump.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/politics/book-trump-white-house.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

By Maggie Haberman at the New York Times

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The president often comes across as unfamiliar with Washington and stymied by aspects of the job. According to Mr. Sims, Mr. Trump was unsettled by the condition of the West Wing, which he found dilapidated. He delighted in giving tours of the Oval Office, down to the private bathroom and the small study he converted to a dining room with a television on the wall. He explained in detail to aides how important the chyrons on television are, because so many people consume programs muted.

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Book by Former Staff Member Describes a White House 'Out of Control' (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2019 OP

Link, please? The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #1

Here you go. And thanks. applegrove Jan 2019 #2

Thank you! The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2019 #3

It is embarrassing that in our country, this is the president. dawg day Jan 2019 #4

I thought it was telling. Trump is running things on his gut and needs applegrove Jan 2019 #5

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,587 posts)

1. Link, please?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:18 AM

Jan 2019

applegrove

(118,492 posts)

2. Here you go. And thanks.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:22 AM

Jan 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/politics/book-trump-white-house.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,587 posts)

3. Thank you!

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 02:23 AM

Jan 2019

dawg day

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4. It is embarrassing that in our country, this is the president.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:14 AM

Jan 2019

A "study" becomes "a TV room," because he never reads.

applegrove

(118,492 posts)

5. I thought it was telling. Trump is running things on his gut and needs

Reply to dawg day (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 04:39 AM

Jan 2019

information that feeds his gut: information on crowds. Policy information does not do it. He's been going on GOP policy often since Bannon left. No need to be embarrassed. We all saw the slow moving coup over the last 40 years. It is everywhere. The US is just the juiciest prize so was where the campaign to reduce democracy in democracies started.

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