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ARTICLE: At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMANMAY 16, 2017
... Mr. Trumps rattled staff kept close tabs on a meeting early Monday in which the president summoned Mr. Spicer; the deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders; and the communications director, Michael Dubke, to lecture them on the need to get on the same page, according to a person briefed on the meeting. Even as Mr. Trump reassured advisers like Mr. Spicer that their jobs were safe at the morning meeting, he told other advisers he knew he needed to make big changes but did not know which direction to go in, or whom to select ...
... There is a growing sense that Mr. Trump seems unwilling or unable to do the things necessary to keep himself out of trouble, and that the presidency has done little to tame a shoot-from-the-hip-into-his-own-foot style that characterized his campaign ...
... In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling and honest defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/white-house-staff.html
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)superpatriotman
(6,246 posts)The guy who couldn't make money owning a casino?!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)When the boss says "Jump!" you best not stop to ask "How high?" Unless, of course, he wanted you to jump a LOT higher than you did, then there will be hell to pay. Or maybe he didn't want you to jump quite THAT high. In which case, there will be hell to pay. Or, maybe he told you to jump, but didn't really mean it, and then you went and jumped just because he said so. There will be, you can be sure, hell to pay. Or when he said jump, but you weren't quite sure he meant it, so you didn't jump. You know what's coming, right? Yup, hell to pay.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)PsychoBabble
(837 posts)world wide wally
(21,738 posts)and yet his book is just a series of incoherent babblings on pages numbered randomly.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Not a one of the republicans has enough sand to stand up to the bully Draft Dodger, Comrade Casino, and tell him to stifle his abuse.
Not a one of them has enough sand or gumption to stand up for America, and defend the USA against the Acts of War* being perpetrated against us by the evil empire** of russia and the Russian SympDupe now illegitimately squatting in our White House.
Deplorable. Craven. Totally republican.
* per dick cheney
** per ronald reagan
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)3catwoman3
(23,947 posts)...yet again.
demmiblue
(36,823 posts)FIFY
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)He is admitting he has bad judgement.