Pure madness: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages
Source: Washington Post
Trump has been asking people close to him whether they believe Kushner or his company have done anything wrong, according to a senior administration official. Two advisers said the president repeatedly tells aides that the Russia investigation will not ensnare him even as it ensnares others around him and that he believes the American people are finally starting to conclude that the Democrats, as opposed to his campaign, colluded with the Russians.
Still, the developments have delivered one negative headline after another, leading Trump to lose his cool especially in the evenings and early mornings, when he often is most isolated, according to advisers.
For instance, aides said, Trump seethed with anger last Wednesday night over cable-news coverage of a photo, obtained by Axios, showing Sessions at dinner with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation, and another top Justice Department prosecutor. The outing was described in news reports as amounting to an act of solidarity after Trump had attacked Sessions in a tweet that morning.
The next morning, Trump was still raging about the photo, venting to friends and allies about a dinner he viewed as an intentional show of disloyalty.
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SunSeeker
(51,728 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)nothing has changed except it has poured onto the good ole USA.
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)The spoiled little evil bastard nearly started a goddamned war because he didn't get his way and drumpf has to ask if it was wrong?
Out.of.touch.
I guess I can believe he actually was stupid and ignorant enough to not realize that his criminal-in-training SIL was running around doing evil shit.
Oh, and iwanna really did marry her father: another incompetent real estate crook.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Heknows exactly what kushner and everyone else in his family is doing - becasue he trained them all on how to do it.
He's ignorant and stupid in other ways, but when it comes to scams, he knows them well.
not fooled
(5,802 posts)he does have skillz--in criminal activity
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)things are far worse than I though it would ever get. Mainly because I guess I held out hope that even a republican congress would have taken some action before it got this bad. They are complicit at this point, and have been for awhile.
Larrybanal
(227 posts)and the republicans have shown him that they are not going to stop him. truly trump can not really believe he is going to end this OK...regardless of how the easy the GOP tries to make it for him
WhiteTara
(29,724 posts)because they are all in on this together.
Welcome to DU
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)Nobody in authority -- except Mueller -- is willing to stand up to him, and his ego won't let him to even consider the possibility that he has made any mistakes, ever. If he does get caught and convicted (fingers crossed), he'll be dragged off to Federal prison screaming, "NO COLLUSION! NO COLLUSION!"
I don't want to accept the possibility that the Orange Asshole will prevail, but after he got a pass on the Access Hollywood tape, my faith in the American people to be unwilling to accept unacceptable behavior was shaken.
groundloop
(11,525 posts)Hell, with Russian money being funneled through the NRA and into the hands of Congressional repubs there's no way in hell they're going to do anything to stop the madness.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)Trumps delusional, irrational behavior is a danger to the World. All we hear from Congressional leadership is.....(crickets) or the sycophantic Obstruction of Nunes and Russian partisan Rohrabacher.
Trumps base still believe all of Muellers work will lead to indictments of HRC and the Democratic Party.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... paying Dana Rhorbacher and his response and thought to myself we're screwed.
No doubt the ReThug leadership is on the take from the Russians
pangaia
(24,324 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)The stupid, fucking racist elf does NOT WORK FOR YOU!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,023 posts)I can just imagine it - the orange one is becoming fully untethered!
bucolic_frolic
(43,332 posts)The shock is going to hit him hard. They should tell him he'll get off the hook if he resigns.
ffr
(22,672 posts)While it's all fun and games to hear discourse in the WH, until he's and other conservatives are removed from positions of power that give them the ability to rob the U.S. Treasury at our expense, I'm only concerned with my level of rage.
Tuck Frump!
George II
(67,782 posts)dchill
(38,547 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)-- Mal
cubbies01
(85 posts)Sundowning is a symptom of Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia. Its also known as late-day confusion. If someone you care for has dementia, their confusion and agitation may get worse in the late afternoon and evening. In comparison, their symptoms may be less pronounced earlier in the day.
MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)How can he not understand at this point that the Attorney General works for US, not him? He must have been told a hundred times by now. Loyalty to Trump is not part of the equation.
He is disassociated from reality. Surely there are 11 Republican senators who see this and aren't tainted by Russian money and would move to replace him with.... oh wait....Mike Pence. Right. Big stumbling block there.
Well, maybe we wait until after November, dump them both and end up with President Pelosi.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)He actually believes God speaks to him. I wonder if God was speaking to him when he colluded with Putin and pals? Go get 'em Mueller!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029773455
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029892213
catbyte
(34,459 posts)Reading articles like this scares the crap out of me. He's so goddamned unstable, yet 80% of Republicans and 100% of Republican "leaders" support that maniac. We are in so much trouble every fucking day he keeps infesting the White House. Hurry, Mr. Mueller. Please, please hurry.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Because Putin sent him a message with his display of nuclear bombs hitting his Florida estate area?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)There really isn't any better way of describing it.
Botany
(70,592 posts)Trump has been asking people close to him whether they believe Kushner or his company
have done anything wrong, according to a senior administration official.
Money laundering
RICO
Treason
Election Rigging
Working with a hostile foreign power in order to damage the United States
extortion
bank fraud
BumRushDaShow
(129,582 posts)mail fraud
income tax fraud
among others...
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)A Washington outsider with tons of business experience to treat the USA the same way he treated his businesses.
You know, to make us all rich, since that's what presidents are supposed to do for us.
The fact that he was a failed businessman, propped up by organized crime and thuggery beyond our imaginations, a failed human being, a loudmouthed but empty-headed twitter twit, seems not to have registered in the least.
Again, as long as he echoed Rush or Sean or Fox & Friends, and as long as he ridiculed liberals and Obama and Hillary, that was sufficient. Evangelicals loved him because, you know, abortion.
Bottom line, they still view him as a political novice and give him more cover than they ever would have afforded Obama, even though they incessantly chided his inexperience as a major drawback.
His going off the rails is something the MAGAts think is funny because they think it disturbs US so much. Wait til hell breaks loose. They may not think it's so funny after all.
Cha
(297,734 posts)benld74
(9,910 posts)magicarpet
(14,178 posts)... all around him and Mueller starts breathing fire and flames down his back neck. Then we will see the real trump meltdowns. Who knows what he will do or what horrors he is capable of once Mueller begins cranking the screws tighter and tighter on him.
Team trump is losing his very closest sycophants directly around the Oval Office as they are disbursing, disappearing, and disintegrating. Soon he will not be insulated by yes men and women surrounding him. If he has to deal with reality rather than his constructed fantasies he could become way more dangerous, unpredictable, and irrational. All his contacts and connections that keep him grounded and tethered to some extent will be gone.
That is when things could really begin to get extremely scary.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Still in fear of some crap he could pull to show authoritiy or gain narcissistic needs
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I'm not joking. What protections are in place for him and Melania?
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)He, plus the family hope that the justice system does its job. They maybe too stupid to know what they are messing with.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Behold - we give you - Donald the Great
D E S T R O Y E R
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That's his normal. I've heard repeatedly he likes the chaos, the temper tantrums, keeping people off kilter. It gives him jollies, I guess.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)If he blew out an artery.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)Nothing new about his chaotic lashing out amidst an incompetent disorganized WH, except that this week his impulsiveness resulted in stock market drop and his tweets about trade war threatens continuing volatility with negative economic consequences.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The GOP billionaire donors have constructed a propaganda machine and push out congressmen who are not true believers. The sad part is the Congress thinks they're doing the right thing - and that's because of GOP propaganda, paid for by billionaires.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Hi Bob Mueller