Trump is 'flipping out' and 'there's going to be an intervention' after Mattis resignation:

[Quixote1818]

I am thinking this might be close to a breaking point for Republicans. Republicans are seeing what happened with Syria and Mattis and they are getting very freaked out.




Trump is ‘flipping out’ and ‘there’s going to be an intervention’ after Mattis resignation: Former senior White House staffer

MARTIN CIZMAR
20 DEC 2018 AT 22:35 ET

Snip:

“Trump has been isolated in bunker mode in recent weeks as political and personal crises mount, according to interviews with 27 current and former White House officials, Republican lawmakers, and outside advisers to the president, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer candid assessments,” the report says.

Things are likely to come to a head now that Mattis is resigning.

“There’s going to be an intervention,” a former senior White House official told the Post. “Jim Mattis just sent a shot across the bow. He’s the most credible member of the administration by five grades of magnitude. He’s the steady, safe set of hands. And this letter is brutal. He quit because of the madness.”

The situation inside the White House was dire Thursday night, the report said. A Republican close to the White House told the Post Trump was in “a tailspin,” acting “totally irrationally” and “flipping out.”

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-flipping-theres-going-intervention-mattis-resignation-former-senior-white-house-staffer/?utm_source=push_notifications

[jcgoldie]

1. ...Trump was in "a tailspin," acting "totally irrationally" and "flipping out."

... Sooo just another day in America since 2016?

[Cha]

22. Exactly, jcgoldie. The only

difference is it's compounding.

I hope he goes over the edge where he belongs.

[Hekate]

2. In other words, it's Thursday

[jcgoldie]

4. hehe

Nice job you got the better punchline

[UpInArms]

20. And tomorrow is friday

Yet another day for wheels to fall off the bus

[hobby10113]

36. Wheels on the bus?

How many wheels does this bus have?

[UpInArms]

43. Well, the ones on this bus

We’re replace a few times with play dough

[Matthew28]

3. Nothing will happen

He'll fire anyone that tries.

[elmac]

25. tRump thrives on this stuff, its his own realty show, you are right, nothing will happen. nt

[Croney]

5. A real intervention would take him away in a straightjacket.

They probably still think they can corral him enough to make it appear that he is President of the United States. Won't work.

[LonePirate]

28. A real intervention would take him away in handcuffs, not a straightjacket.

[Ohiogal]

6. Doesn't he act that way all the time?

[DontBooVote]

7. I'm sorry, but...

I hope his rubber band snaps, soon.

[KentuckyWoman]

8. This isn't America's first dance with fucking up the world.

My guess is that the Republicans completely approve of the shit being done.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Try enacting the 25th for a start...

Oh wait, that won't happen since his corrupt cabinet is getting rich as long as he is the fake prez.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-madness-of-donald-trump-197853/

[Leghorn21]

10. I'm waiting for LOSER45 to tweet his heartfelt opinion that Gen. Mattis is a "lightweight" -

meantime, he’s just gloating about his big House win tonight

Holy shit, this fuckin guy

[diva77]

11. Rethugs conduct an intervention???

They ALL need an intervention

[PhrankT]

12. That's about what my son in law just told me.

Ex Iraq Military Vet USAF.
He only said that something will happen soon with Trump. That he is isolated. That Mattis is well respected among the troops.


He wouldn't say anymore, & I did press him for some answer, some hint but that's it.
I begged him for something more but he just changed the subject.

Hmm.

Maybe he was just being kind with me.

[gratuitous]

13. An intervention? Way too late for that

I have no idea who these shadowy sources are, but they're way too late for an intervention, like this is some junkie who's hit rock bottom. This is an out-of-control manbaby who's facing a crisis he can't buy or bluff his way out of. For the first time in his life. This isn't some deal that's soured and he's going to just walk away. He's locked in for another two years, and he's run through everything in his bag of tricks. He'll gyre more and more out of control, and it's up to the people around him to quit acting like this is at all normal, and we can just wait him out. Too much is at stake, and the people in a position to do something about it are covering their eyes and ears.

[PhrankT]

16. Your words are like the steady hum around us anymore.

It's intense and never leaves. It is there in every moment of our lives.

This presidency has got to end. He needs to be looked after and we need a leader.

[gratuitous]

18. The whole country is going to need therapy for PTSD

Only after Needy Amin is out of the Oval Office will we have a full picture of what we've been suffering these last two years. Make that "a fuller picture." There will never be a reckoning of all that we've lost.

[PhrankT]

21. That is the clear reality of what has been done to us. It's time it is said out loud.

"There will never be a reckoning of all that we've lost."

Thanks for saying the truth.

[rufus dog]

14. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

THE MOTHER FUCKING REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE JUST BENT FUCKING OVER FOR TRUMP!

Do we really expect the republicans to do the right thing. They aren't going to do jack fucking shit.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. This article is third-party spin of an unnamed source. Don't pin your hopes on it.

Ditch RawStory and read actual reporting.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. I follow ROL

But just for occasional celebrity stuff.

They have been very pro-trump for the last couple years. Somehow connected to trump loyalists but don’t recall how.

Nevertheless...for them to print something negative is interesting.

[Quixote1818]

23. It's linked to a Washington Post story and quotes from it.

If you trust the WP then what is quoted is a safe bet. Sure they used loaded words in titles but generally they report mostly from existing news of reliable sources.

[still_one]

24. I seriously doubt it, especially after seeing Paul Ryan and McCarthy laughing and smiling before

announced that they agreed with trump regarding going back to Congress to get his wall, even if it means a shutdown

[elleng]

26. Try a 25th Amendment Intervention.

[AlexSFCA]

30. which means welcome pence?

no, let trump drag the entire gop with him all the way to 2020 or we never get out of it.

[Nasruddin]

27. No

An "intervention"? A covey of quails is going to talk manners to an enraged, rabid mountain lion?

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

[AlexSFCA]

29. they say it after almost every resignation or firing

and then the news cycle quickly turns to something else. Mcmaster, Tillerson, Kelly, Cohn, etc. At this point it makes sense for trump to pursue his wall at all costs because his base is all he has left. If he start softening his extreme promises, he may lose his alt right base like ann coulter and then welcome pence.

[CentralMass]

31. Shame on McConnell and the rest of the wretched GOP. Every time they gain power they take this

country to its knees.

[ecstatic]

32. umm... when is the intervention going to be? After the holidays?

Who knows what else trump will fuck up over the next 2 weeks! The time to act is NOW!

[herding cats]

33. There will be no intervention.

They'll coddle the tantrum and feed his psychosis further.

There's not one person in his inner circle capable of intervening where he's involved. Republicans are spineless and just keep enabling the dangerous and mentally unstable Megalomaniac in Chief.

[Kablooie]

34. Not with 86% approval rate from Republicans. Today on Gallup.

Seems absolutely nothing on earth will ever convince them that Trump is anything but God walking on earth.

[StarryNite]

40. Yes, that's the way I see it too.

They think he was placed by God so no matter what he does it's the right thing to do. He got a cult following.

[question everything]

35. Like a Raging Bull - from a WSJ editorial

Mr. Trump should take this week’s big market selloff seriously as a useful warning. The successful disruptions of the President’s first year emerged from planned strategies executed by allies in the government and Congress. His erratic actions this week are different. Heading into 2019 and divided government, Mr. Trump is acting less like a confident disturber of the status quo and more like a raging bull.

[blue-wave]

37. "this might be close to a breaking point for Republicans."

Those rat bastard republicons. We should never.... no, we can never allow them to live down the cluster fuck they created for our country. Send them all to Siberia to live out the rest of their shit stained lives. Although even Siberia would be too good a life for the traitors.

[C Moon]

38. I don't think they are getting ready to freak: look at what the GOP congress did today.

The slime bag traitors will continue this while they still see a faint light at the end of the tunnel.

[StarryNite]

39. "Trump was in "a tailspin," acting "totally irrationally" and "flipping out."

So what's new? He's been acting like this the whole time but his loyal Kool Aid drinkers don't care.

[BannonsLiver]

41. Not close to a real breaking point

I don’t buy the “they’ll never break” line so far as it relates to actual GOP power players. I don’t care what his inbred followers think. No one should.

The breaking point will come when the economy crashes and the specter of a wipeout in 2020 becomes clear. Both events are hurtling toward reality. The next 12 months will be a time none of us will ever forget.

[LovingA2andMI]

42. The Only "Intervention".....

Is evoking the 25th Amendment. That's It, That's All..

25th Amendment, Section 4:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.