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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:38 PM Jan 2017

Apparently the Trump-Flynn honeymoon is over.

Trump thinks "Flynn talks too much."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/mike-flynn-is-annoying-trump-because-he-acts-just-like-trump.html

Less than two weeks into the Trump presidency, Flynn has “gotten on the nerves” of the president and others in his administration, according to the New York Times. Why? Flynn’s “overbearing,” he talks “too much,” and he presided “over a chaotic and opaque N.S.C. transition process,” the Times says. Flynn also likes to push the boundaries of what’s typically thought acceptable in D.C. Trump liked that when Flynn was chanting “lock her up” and calling Islam a “cancer,” but those antics have apparently become less amusing over time. Recently, for example, Flynn had to be talked out of going to DeploraBall, a Trump inauguration event where the “Sieg heil!” had to be explicitly banned, because at those kind of things you never know.

Could this be what is behind moving Bannon to the NSC - to rein in Flynn? Things may be about to get even more interesting because this kind of maneuvering almost never works. Eventually the long knives come out and someone gets purged and you know it is not going to be Bannon.

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Apparently the Trump-Flynn honeymoon is over. (Original Post) yellowcanine Jan 2017 OP

He should have shut up when Bannon ordered him dalton99a Jan 2017 #1

So Bannon is solidifying his position. Docreed2003 Jan 2017 #2

I'd prefer a circular firing squad. Bannon is the more ruthless of the two. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2017 #3

Bannon is a clear and present danger, not just for the US, but for the whole avebury Jan 2017 #4

That's what happens when you have so many men stepping on their dicks. Baitball Blogger Jan 2017 #5

Clearly not anatomically possible with this crowd. Must be something else. yellowcanine Jan 2017 #6

Very feasible, considering that they are bottom feeders and are crawling on their bellies. Baitball Blogger Jan 2017 #7

They could be stepping on each other's dicks. nt msanthrope Jan 2017 #10

But I think Flynn is Moscow's Man in Havana--I mean, DC. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #8

Actually, that is interesting... Barack_America Jan 2017 #14

Not Buying This erpowers Jan 2017 #9

See my post 14 above. Barack_America Jan 2017 #15

Can Drumpf get on his own nerves, too?!1 He's certainly gotten on mine!1 UTUSN Jan 2017 #11

I was so sure that the 1st infighting would be between Bannon and Jared Kushner eleny Jan 2017 #12

Ha! There's only one person in this administration allowed to be overbearing and talk too much, tanyev Jan 2017 #13

dalton99a

(81,505 posts)

1. He should have shut up when Bannon ordered him

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:40 PM

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Docreed2003

(16,859 posts)

2. So Bannon is solidifying his position.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:41 PM

Jan 2017

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)

3. I'd prefer a circular firing squad. Bannon is the more ruthless of the two.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:45 PM

Jan 2017

But it makes little difference. Under Trump, they're all batshit crazy and getting worse.

We're one Bannon fart away from martial law.

avebury

(10,952 posts)

4. Bannon is a clear and present danger, not just for the US, but for the whole

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 02:46 PM

Jan 2017

planet as well.

Baitball Blogger

(46,714 posts)

5. That's what happens when you have so many men stepping on their dicks.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 03:26 PM

Jan 2017

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

6. Clearly not anatomically possible with this crowd. Must be something else.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 03:35 PM

Jan 2017

Baitball Blogger

(46,714 posts)

7. Very feasible, considering that they are bottom feeders and are crawling on their bellies.

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 04:10 PM

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msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

10. They could be stepping on each other's dicks. nt

Reply to yellowcanine (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:45 PM

Jan 2017

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

8. But I think Flynn is Moscow's Man in Havana--I mean, DC.

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 04:12 PM

Jan 2017

They pull him, and Uncle Vlad's not glad.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)

14. Actually, that is interesting...

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #8)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:11 PM

Jan 2017

...this whole shake-up did just occur after those two "spies" were arrested in Russia. Everyone agrees that if it was the Trump admin who outed them that Flynn was the most likely culprit.

Nobody wants to get too close to a traitor.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)

9. Not Buying This

Reply to yellowcanine (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:44 PM

Jan 2017

I am not buying this information. Something else is going on here. Flynn and Trump were on the campaign trail together for months. After that they were together for months again as they worked through the transition. If Flynn was going to get on Trump's nerves it would have happened before he was in the White House. It is possible that people within the Trump White House are learning that Mike Flynn cannot be controlled as much as they thought. Maybe being an independent thinker is not a good thing in the Trump White House. Also, they may try to throw Flynn overboard in order to blame him for all the problems the Trump White House is currently having.