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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH aides couldn't reach Trump for THREE HOURS to ask about deleting "white power" retweet
NBC reporting that the retweet had set off a "five-alarm fire" at the WH, but Trump was golfing and had PUT DOWN HIS PHONE, and aides couldn't reach Dan Scavino either.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-white-power-retweet-set-five-alarm-fire-white-n1232495
The video remained on the president's Twitter page, where he has 82 million followers, for more than three hours because White House officials couldn't reach him to ask him to delete it, the two officials said. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and had put his phone down, the officials said.
Aides also tried unsuccessfully to reach deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino to ask him to delete the retweet, officials said.
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Once officials were able to reach the president, he agreed to delete it, they said.
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Mindboggling incompetence.
Editing to add a tweet from Walter Shaub, since it matches my wondering if possibly this is just the cover story for the delay in deleting that "white power" retweet:
Tweeted by Shaub a few minutes ago:
Link to tweet
Karadeniz
(22,526 posts)Nevilledog
(51,112 posts)Bev54
(10,052 posts)highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)unc70
(6,115 posts)Who was in charge? Where was Haig?
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He does more harm than good.
Journeyman
(15,035 posts)for at least long enough for any foreseeable emergency to play itself out?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Priorities, you know?
-Laelth
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)He needed a win.
-Laelth
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Probably in 1 ring.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)AdamGG
(1,292 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)this dereliction.
oasis
(49,388 posts)there just long enough to draw attention away from "bountygate".
He reached his racist base in the process. Mission accomplished.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Did he put his phone down too? 🙄
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)in his Secret Service detail.
I refuse to believe they couldn't contact him for that long, he just didn't choose to be contacted.
PCIntern
(25,553 posts)The SS has how many agents on duty with him? Give me a fucking break. Im sure they werent answering their phones either. Yeah.
crickets
(25,981 posts)He just didn't want to delete the video. What an awful, stupid lie to tell. It just makes it worse.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)What is our response, Mr. President?
Hello?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...no one would been able to reach the "President". Yeah, that's not good.
But somehow, I get the feeling, this is going to happen more often. As his poll numbers show him losing and him holding on only to skim off of the campaign, send government duties to his properties to profit, etc. He's going to check out more often.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)It has been known for several years that mornings are simply listed as "Executive Time" on his daily schedule. I have this image of this person in a gold bathrobe, twitter phone in one hand and remote in the other.
tblue37
(65,391 posts)Walleye
(31,027 posts)Because he thinks people can eavesdrop on his conversations through his phone. 😁
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)Granted, maybe not being able to get ahold of this president isn't such a bad thing, but the idea of any president being incommunicado for three hours because he's playing golf (or for any other reason) is just fucked.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)GopherGal
(2,008 posts)highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)Link to tweet
If she doesn't buy it, then it leaves the other possibility Walter Shaub mentioned in the tweet I added to the OP -- that the aides couldn't get Trump to agree to delete that "white power" retweet at first.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)They simply don't realize the dire implications of what yhry are saying.
This claim.....I just can't
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)I'm not buying it.
Hstch05
(219 posts)This was my thought as well. There is no way that the Secret Service detail wouldn't be able to connect with the president at a moment's notice. The only reason why I can think of that they didn't go through his detail was because this was a strictly political matter, and I'm pretty sure they have to log all their communications. But still, it does not pass the smell test.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Total bullshit.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Chelsea Clinton tweeted that if she needed to talk to her dad she could call him on a pay phone from school and never once was he unreachable. Made me laugh but, seriously...the man might be in a meeting or have to be given a message by someone but unreachable? Please.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)You never know what might happen in the middle of an afternoon.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Perfetto!
genxlib
(5,528 posts)After all, about 1 out of 100 tweets are actually written in coherent english. So I have always assumed one of the junior Nazis has posting privileges.
highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)have deleted it, but couldn't reach him either.
And the more I think about this story, the more I think it's just trying to cover for the president not wanting to delete that racist retweet.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)Bingo.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)That moron is paid $400,000 a year, plus an extra expense allowance of $50,000 a year, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment.
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)... what they're not aware of is he stole $500M from the taxpayers' credit card and mnuchin doesn't want anyone to know where the money went.
Robber barons of the 21st Century...
Lock em up!!
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)If it had been an actual emergency, nobody wants Trump involved in making any decisions.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)The president has access to immediate communications wherever he is, whether he's in a car, in an elevator, or on the golf course. In addition to the Secret Service and military aide, the White House Communications Agency officers are always just a few feet from him and can connect him to anyone anywhere in the world. That's the main point of their job. If a staffer needs to reach him, the WH switchboard or signal operator can easily patch them through to WHCA, who can put them on the phone with the president within seconds.
Mission: "To provide premier communication systems that enables the President to lead the nation effectively".
WHCA provides telecommunications and related support to the President, Vice President, White House Senior Staff, National Security Council, U.S. Secret Service and others as directed by the White House Military Office.
This support includes non-secure voice, secure voice, record communications, audiovisual and graphic services, and information technology services in Washington, D.C. and trip sites worldwide. https://cybercoe.army.mil/SIGNALSCH/OCOS/HISTORY/history_white_house_communications_agency.html
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)No fucking way is the White House staff not able to reach him on a moments notice through them.
I suspect he didn't delete it right away as suggested because he didn't want to.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)WHCA's entire function is presidential communications. It's their job to make sure he's accessible at all times - and they're damned good at it. But if for some reason, they can't, the Secret Service agents have phones and radios.
There's no way anyone on Trump's senior staff couldn't reach him on the golf course. The president of the United States is NEVER incommunicado.
lastlib
(23,239 posts)...and no white House staffer SMASHED it (when the opportunity presented itself??!?)
Not only is the presidunce a dumb-cluck--so is his staff!!
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)brooklynite
(94,585 posts)Have you ever had to deal with the sand trap on the 7th hole?
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)directive (which was the norm for Hitler) when the D Day Landings in France began. Oops!
Quixote1818
(28,943 posts)live love laugh
(13,114 posts)nakocal
(552 posts)as it was red meat for his base of racists.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Who did the President shag and when did he shag them?