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highplainsdem

(48,731 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:31 AM Jan 2018

'War Could Start From the Private Residence': Trump Aides Joke Away His Latest 'Nuclear' Tweet

Source: Daily Beast

Aides to the president generally didn’t bat an eye at his latest, most provocative, salvo against North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong-Un. They’ve come to accept that this is the man for whom they work. It’s a dark existence. But it is—judging from the multiple White House officials and administration veterans The Daily Beast talked to for this story—also one they have normalized internally.

“It’s a running joke [in the West Wing] that nuclear war could start from the private residence during Fox [News] primetime,” one senior Trump aide told The Daily Beast. “Sometimes the joking includes more uncomfortable [or] nervous laughter than other times.”

After a year in office, much of Washington D.C. has changed, but the president himself has not. Left alone in his residence at night,Trump will watch Fox News and will tweet his feelings. Aides in the administration say they approach it as a facet of the job. And that means not growing alarmed even when the boss talks about brandishing a nuke.

“When he goes off on stuff like this, it's the [White House's] job to rally around him and make up reasons for why it was okay," a former senior Trump administration official said.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/war-could-start-from-the-private-residence-trump-aides-joke-away-his-latest-nuclear-tweet



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'War Could Start From the Private Residence': Trump Aides Joke Away His Latest 'Nuclear' Tweet (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2018 OP
HAHAHA! It's funny, 'cause it's nuclear war! tanyev Jan 2018 #1
Oh my how positively hilarious! The Genealogist Jan 2018 #2
the day-care center needs a night shift....... lastlib Jan 2018 #3
Right? Cosmocat Jan 2018 #4
They could have comedy night at the WH Liberalagogo Jan 2018 #5
I can hardly wait Scarsdale Jan 2018 #6

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
2. Oh my how positively hilarious!
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:38 AM
Jan 2018

No knee slapper like a man-child destabilizing the world and starting a world war because of a temper tantrum. Just uproariously funny. Another real whopper is that the repukes in Congress will actually do something to stop it.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. I can hardly wait
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 12:38 PM
Jan 2018

until we get ADULTS in office again. Fully functioning, intelligent ADULTS. This crew in office now are hopeless, inept, STUPID. Do they have parents? If so, their parents must be mortified that their offspring are as dumb as tRump.

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