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By JOSH MARSHALL Published JANUARY 23, 2017, 10:49 PM EDT
We now have a story from The Washington Post ("The first days inside Trumps White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot" to match yesterday's from The Times ("Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides" . They are each a classic type for a major newspaper. Throw your biggest reportorial names at the story, talk to every one and put together an over-arching from-the-inside narrative. They are each fascinating, occasionally comic and in some ways horrifying reads. But there is an underlying, not-made-explicit message to both which is perhaps the most important. We are three days into the administration and the Trump White House leaks not so much like a sieve as a bucket with no bottom.
The Trump White House not only leaks like crazy. It casually leaks the most intimate and humiliating details about the President - hurt feelings, ego injury, childlike behavior, self-destructive rages over tweets, media failure to credit his own grandiosity. We have simply never seen this level of leaking, with this little respect for the President's dignity or reputation, this early.
A few examples. From the Times ...
Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obamas in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury.
From The Post ...
Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the medias failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the publics perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Specifically John Hurt's indelible, creepily chilling Caligula.
"he feels demoralized that the publics perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment."
THAT is called a break with reality, and if he were a Mental Health patient, meds would be prescribed.
The fact that he is not sleeping much at night is another clue to a problem.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Since Trump cannot abide pets, there is no danger of a horse becoming Senator
but lots of horse's asses have that position.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)thanks for my first laugh of the day!
CousinIT
(9,264 posts)3_Limes
(363 posts)What this says about the level of esteem and respect that aids hold Trump is enlightening. And it doesn't bode well for this administrations chances of success over the next two years. (No way Sniffles last 4 years. There are too many skeletons in too many closets for him to go much longer than two.)
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)While Bannon whispers in his ear constantly how awesome Trump is, the fact is Trump is just Sideshow Don whose signature turns things into law.
Trump isn't writing any policy. It's being pushed in front of him by his handlers.
Weak executives were notorious problems in English history with the magnates running rampant.
The serious people on tv are starting to talk about Trump's mental health.
And I noticed a distinct quieting down of conversations about the counter-surveillance.
IMO, shit's going to get real around June.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Even an R Congress is going to want to do something he doesn't want to or vice versa. And he finds out they aren't just his employees but have their own power.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)This administration will fold up like a cheap plastic deck chair, hair all on fire and looking for an exit. Trump and his gang are the polar opposites of leadership.