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https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/832735728991768576
Hint, hint: Trump tends to go most aggressively after the media when a big story is incoming. So...
Trump deletes enemies list to add 2 more namesThe president wrote a tweet about the "enemy of the American people," the media.
Apparently unsatisfied, he deleted it and tried again:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/832708293516632065
https://www.axios.com/trump-takes-2-tries-to-tweet-enemies-list-2268870460.html
Wow, populist?---Leaked Trump tape: 'You are the special people'
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/832940901320228864https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/832943659968499713
Leaked Trump tape: 'You are the special people'
Exclusive audio shows how Trump lets loose at his clubs — inviting guests to join him on staff interviews
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and ANNIE KARNI 02/18/17 08:05 AM EST
President Donald Trump, living alone inside the White House, often hungers for friendly interaction as he adjusts to the difficult work of governance. At his clubs, he finds what’s missing.
That showed last November at a cocktail and dinner reception celebrating longtime members of his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. Deep into the process of meeting potential Cabinet nominees, the president-elect invited partygoers to stop by the next day to join the excitement.
“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump told the crowd, according to an audio tape of his closed-press remarks obtained by POLITICO from a source in the room. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."
"We’re going to be interviewing everybody — Treasury, we’re going to be interviewing Secretary of State,” he continued. “We have everybody coming in — if you want to come around, it’s going to be unbelievable….so you might want to come along.”
As he prepares to spend the third straight weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the tape provides a window into how Trump conducts himself away from the prying press and among the loyal faces of his club.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-leaked-audio-clubs-guests-235161
DON LEMON WALKED OFF: "Don't Come To This Network Again" To A Guest
Russian tabloid re: Trump: "You need to be drunk to understand true position of America's president"
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/832778751003893760Russian media no longer dazzled by Trump
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It was almost as if a US presidential candidate, and subsequently a new US president, had become the golden boy of Russian politics. In January he even received more mentions in the Russian media than President Vladimir Putin.
But I detect a change in tone.
On Friday, Russia's most popular tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda, accused President Trump of making "contradictory" statements about Nato.
The paper points out: "
During the election campaign) Trump had called the Alliance obsolete and useless. Less than two months have passed since he moved into the Oval Office and he's already expressed full support for Nato.
"As the saying goes, you need to be drunk to understand the true position of America's president."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39004987
At the NSC, "plenty of people are sitting at their desks staring at blank screens-It is apocalyptic"
https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/832801948029984769
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/national-security-adviser-chaos-235162
PETRAEUS DROPS OUT
Former CIA chief David Petraeus has dropped out of consideration for the post, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Petraeus held command posts in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and served as CIA director under Obama. He quit as CIA chief in 2012 and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified materials relating to documents he had given his biographer, with whom he had an affair.
Harward, a senior executive at Lockheed Martin and former Navy SEAL, declined Trump’s offer in part because he wanted to bring in his own team, according to two sources familiar with Harward’s decision.
The White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, told Fox News on Friday that Harward’s family “didn’t sign off” on him taking the job
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-scrambles-to-find-top-national-security-aide_us_58a7d054e4b037d17d2820bc?ynct0hlutobn75jyvi&
https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/832793903032049664
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/832796348160159744
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/national-security-adviser-chaos-235162
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