Trump Unchained: Was his performance a direct result of the weakening of Priebus and Kellyanne?

[Maru Kitteh]

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Trump never seemed too impressed with Priebus to begin with, and several of his inside circle were against bringing the GOP chairman on at the White House, believing that he lacked loyalty to Trump. Priebus is under attack from many sides, even Breitbart recently sported the headline As Flynn Resigns, Priebus Future In Doubt and friends of Trump have given interviews calling Preibus "weak" and "in over his head."

Kellyanne Conway has been greatly weakened, her future called into question and the subject of many rumors in a fall from grace that arguably began in earnest with her announcement that Trump subscribes to a universe governed by "alt-facts." Shortly after her now famous "Bowling Green" gaffe she landed in Dutch with even the House Ethics committee for hawking first daughter-wife Ivanka's Chinese-made wares from inside the White House.

Having considered this for a while today, I think that the moderating influences, the ones who set him on a teleprompter and were even able to take away his Twitter at key times have been steadily weakened since Trump's arrival at 1600. The devil on his shoulder is stoking the flames of chaos, and consolidating his own power within the White House by appealing to the darkest angels of Trump's nature.

Trump has decided that all this "professional" bullshit isn't any fun, and it certainly isn't getting him the love and admiration he wants. His approval ratings are in free-fall. The respect and love he thought would automatically come with "winning" and being a president didn't materialize.

Unhappy and longing for the old days, he's decided not only to schedule himself a rally, but to go back to the openly belligerent, no-holds barred hand-to-hand combat and bellicose hostility of the campaign trail. There is no one there with sufficient strength to moderate him now, to tell him what a bad idea it was, to keep his rage, frustration and ineptitude from blossoming in full public view.

That, I think, is how we ended up with the chaotic and unhinged performance we saw today.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. If that's the case, I'll take more

[Maru Kitteh]

2. I think your wish will be granted.

I think we will see more of this.

[Lotusflower70]

3. Interesting observations

He doesn't like to be restrained. They tried the let's see if we can make him look more Presidential instead of like a raving lunatic approach but he can't hold it together long enough. And he fixates on things such as crowd size, popular vote and voter fraud because even though he won, he really lost. We lost. He over exaggerated the margin of his victory in comparison to other Presidents and he got called out. He hates to be called out. He deflects and dodges and tries to place blame everywhere else but on himself. He wants the glory but doesn't want to work. He wants the power and doesn't want to be questioned. Well fuck you Commander Fake Orange von Douchebag, we see you for the conman that you are and we will not be silenced.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. He cannot move beyond those slights because there is no topic more important than himself.

It is the only subject he cares about. It is the only thing he thinks about. It is the only topic he can be bothered to study or read about.

From a July 17 article from last year.

He has no time to read, he said: “I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.”

Trump’s desk is piled high with magazines, nearly all of them with himself on their covers, and each morning, he reviews a pile of printouts of news articles about himself that his secretary delivers to his desk. But there are no shelves of books in his office, no computer on his desk.

More at link.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-doesnt-read-much-being-president-probably-wouldnt-change-that/2016/07/17/d2ddf2bc-4932-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html

[KittyWampus]

4. Bannon told him "you can do a better job yourself" and pushed out in front of cameras?

Sounds very likely.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Bannon touted his desire to burn it all down for years. What better vehichle

could he have possibly found to accomplish just that?

Trump is perfect.

[Doodley]

6. In addition, I think he might have forgotten to take his medicine. Bless his bigoted cotton socks.