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sheshe2

(83,633 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 02:24 PM May 2017

Trump Wants to Fire Everyone

Mike Allen reports that the POTUS is pissed off at almost everyone on his team and thinking about firing anyone who isn’t nailed down.

"He’s frustrated, and angry at everyone,” said one of the confidants.

The conversations intensified this week as the aftermath of the Comey firing pushed the White House from chaos into crisis. Trump’s friends are telling him that many of his top aides don’t know how to work with him, and point out that his approval ratings aren’t rising, but the leaks are.

“The advice he’s getting is to go big — that he has nothing to lose,” the confidant said. “The question now is how big and how bold. I’m not sure he knows the answer to that yet.”

If Trump follows through, his innermost White House circle would shrink from a loop to a straight line of mid-30s family members with scant governing experience: Jared and Ivanka. So while the fighting and leaking might ease, the problems may not because it’s the president, not the staff, calling the shots.


Read More: http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/5/14/94752/2136

Going big because he has nothing to lose is truly frightening.
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Trump Wants to Fire Everyone (Original Post) sheshe2 May 2017 OP
you're right, janterry May 2017 #1
You're right as well, janterry. sheshe2 May 2017 #2
This is a good sign, Nixon did the same thing FakeNoose May 2017 #3
15 months Trumpdumper May 2017 #11
OK thanks FakeNoose May 2017 #14
He needs to fire them all randr May 2017 #4
well, he's got me on fire! William769 May 2017 #5
Hi Bill... sheshe2 May 2017 #6
Hey, tRump, it'd be easier to just fire yourself. Yonnie3 May 2017 #7
He should start with malaise May 2017 #8
Yup...fire himself... sheshe2 May 2017 #9
Yes....! northoftheborder May 2017 #10
Nothing is ever his fault, you know. leftyladyfrommo May 2017 #12
It is down to his family now. Demtexan May 2017 #13

FakeNoose

(32,555 posts)
3. This is a good sign, Nixon did the same thing
Sun May 14, 2017, 02:33 PM
May 2017

Nixon was gone about a month (?) after he fired his staffers.
Once he turned over the TAPES he was dead meat, and he knew it.

I don't remember the exact amount of time, but Nixon fired Haldeman, Erlichman, John Dean and most of his boys. Then he went down. I think maybe Dean resigned before he could be fired, but he was the one who turned on Nixon anyway so it didn't matter.

It won't be long now.

Democrats, we must maintain courage and resolve to see this through.





Trumpdumper

(170 posts)
11. 15 months
Sun May 14, 2017, 03:46 PM
May 2017

Dean, Ehrlichman, Haldeman all were gone in late April 1973; Nixon resigned in early August 1974.

FakeNoose

(32,555 posts)
14. OK thanks
Sun May 14, 2017, 07:59 PM
May 2017

Trump can't possibly last that long.

I'll bet he's out before the end of 2017, at the rate he's going now.




randr

(12,409 posts)
4. He needs to fire them all
Sun May 14, 2017, 02:38 PM
May 2017

He never had a clue as to how our government works and none of the toadies he has hired know anymore.

Yonnie3

(17,419 posts)
7. Hey, tRump, it'd be easier to just fire yourself.
Sun May 14, 2017, 03:16 PM
May 2017

I haven't heard of Jared and Ivanka's activities at all this past week, just the things they aren't going to do. Are they hiding from the Comey fallout or what?

He's going to be mighty alone if he goes big. Perhaps that situation will hasten his departure as his mental state declines.

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