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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Mon Jan 23, 2017, 09:09 AM Jan 2017

""Our adversary is of a choleric temper and easily provoked..." - " Sun Tzu


WASHINGTON — President Trump’s first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually giving way to attempts at damage control.

The problem is that what works on the way to the White House does not always work once a candidate gets there.

To the extent that there was a plan to take advantage of the first days of his administration, when a president is usually at his maximum leverage, Mr. Trump threw it aside with a decision to lash out about crowd sizes at his swearing in and to rewrite the history of his dealings with intelligence agencies.

The lack of discipline troubled even senior members of Mr. Trump’s circle, some of whom had urged him not to indulge his simmering resentment at what he saw as unfair news coverage. Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back. By the end of the weekend, he and his team were scrambling to get back on script.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-aides-rocky-first-weekend.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news



Let's drive this s o b crazy and make him crazier than a sh!t house rat.
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""Our adversary is of a choleric temper and easily provoked..." - " Sun Tzu (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 OP
"Let's drive this s o b crazy and make him crazier than a sh!t house rat." Sherman A1 Jan 2017 #1
Have to agree SledDriver Jan 2017 #2
Too stupid to know his biggest weakness dalton99a Jan 2017 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. "Let's drive this s o b crazy and make him crazier than a sh!t house rat."
Mon Jan 23, 2017, 09:12 AM
Jan 2017
I do not believe that would be terribly difficult or require very much time as it all seems to be well underway.
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