Pure madness: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Trump has been asking people close to him whether they believe Kushner or his company have done anything wrong, according to a senior administration official. Two advisers said the president repeatedly tells aides that the Russia investigation will not ensnare him — even as it ensnares others around him — and that he believes the American people are finally starting to conclude that the Democrats, as opposed to his campaign, colluded with the Russians.

Still, the developments have delivered one negative headline after another, leading Trump to lose his cool — especially in the evenings and early mornings, when he often is most isolated, according to advisers.

For instance, aides said, Trump seethed with anger last Wednesday night over cable-news coverage of a photo, obtained by Axios, showing Sessions at dinner with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation, and another top Justice Department prosecutor. The outing was described in news reports as amounting to an act of solidarity after Trump had attacked Sessions in a tweet that morning.

The next morning, Trump was still raging about the photo, venting to friends and allies about a dinner he viewed as an intentional show of disloyalty.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pure-madness-dark-days-inside-the-white-house-as-trump-shocks-and-rages/2018/03/03/9849867c-1e72-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.a3f0a758bb6b

[SunSeeker]

1. Jeebus. What a shit show. One everyone should have seen coming. nt

[Iliyah]

2. t-rump and his cronies were effed up before going into the WH

nothing has changed except it has poured onto the good ole USA.

[backtoblue]

3. If he even has to ask if Kushner did something wrong..

The spoiled little evil bastard nearly started a goddamned war because he didn't get his way and drumpf has to ask if it was wrong?
Out.of.touch.

[not fooled]

25. Well

I guess I can believe he actually was stupid and ignorant enough to not realize that his criminal-in-training SIL was running around doing evil shit.

Oh, and iwanna really did marry her father: another incompetent real estate crook.

[Merlot]

26. Nope. He's not stupid and ignorant ...well about scams anyhow

Heknows exactly what kushner and everyone else in his family is doing - becasue he trained them all on how to do it.

He's ignorant and stupid in other ways, but when it comes to scams, he knows them well.

[not fooled]

27. Good point

he does have skillz--in criminal activity

[Mr.Bill]

4. Never thought I would say this, but

things are far worse than I though it would ever get. Mainly because I guess I held out hope that even a republican congress would have taken some action before it got this bad. They are complicit at this point, and have been for awhile.

[Larrybanal]

7. trump thinks rules don't apply

and the republicans have shown him that they are not going to stop him. truly trump can not really believe he is going to end this OK...regardless of how the easy the GOP tries to make it for him

[WhiteTara]

32. They're not stopping him

because they are all in on this together.
Welcome to DU

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

43. I really believe he'll get off scot-free, just as he has every other time in his life.

Nobody in authority -- except Mueller -- is willing to stand up to him, and his ego won't let him to even consider the possibility that he has made any mistakes, ever. If he does get caught and convicted (fingers crossed), he'll be dragged off to Federal prison screaming, "NO COLLUSION! NO COLLUSION!"

I don't want to accept the possibility that the Orange Asshole will prevail, but after he got a pass on the Access Hollywood tape, my faith in the American people to be unwilling to accept unacceptable behavior was shaken.

[groundloop]

9. Complicit is putting it mildly

Hell, with Russian money being funneled through the NRA and into the hands of Congressional repubs there's no way in hell they're going to do anything to stop the madness.

[Ccarmona]

16. You are Right, The Repubs in Congress Are Fiddling While DC (& the rest of the Country) Burn

Trump’s delusional, irrational behavior is a danger to the World. All we hear from Congressional leadership is.....(crickets) or the sycophantic Obstruction of Nunes and Russian partisan Rohrabacher.
Trump’s base still believe all of Mueller’s work will lead to indictments of HRC and the Democratic Party.

[uponit7771]

33. +1, I thought Ryan had a bit of sense about him but then heard about the Russian's

... paying Dana Rhorbacher and his response and thought to myself we're screwed.

No doubt the ReThug leadership is on the take from the Russians

[pangaia]

34. They are in it up to their necks. They have no choice but to protrect their own asses.

[vkkv]

5. Mr. MaGoo was disloyal ??

The stupid, fucking racist elf does NOT WORK FOR YOU!

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. so he is reenacting the SNL skit with Aykroyd as Nixon talking to the pictures?

I can just imagine it - the orange one is becoming fully untethered!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Sugarcoating does him no service

The shock is going to hit him hard. They should tell him he'll get off the hook if he resigns.

[ffr]

10. Was this before or after he made taxpayers pay for his 100th golf outing?

While it's all fun and games to hear discourse in the WH, until he's and other conservatives are removed from positions of power that give them the ability to rob the U.S. Treasury at our expense, I'm only concerned with my level of rage.

Tuck Frump!

[George II]

11. Looking more and more like Captain Queeg every day.

[dchill]

28. Captain Queeg w/o the balls.

[malthaussen]

40. Alas, we still can't "like" comments.

This will have to do.

-- Mal

[cubbies01]

12. This

Sundowning is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. It’s also known as “late-day confusion.” If someone you care for has dementia, their confusion and agitation may get worse in the late afternoon and evening. In comparison, their symptoms may be less pronounced earlier in the day.

[MGKrebs]

13. This may be the biggest evidence yet that he is deranged.

How can he not understand at this point that the Attorney General works for US, not him? He must have been told a hundred times by now. Loyalty to Trump is not part of the equation.
He is disassociated from reality. Surely there are 11 Republican senators who see this and aren't tainted by Russian money and would move to replace him with.... oh wait....Mike Pence. Right. Big stumbling block there.
Well, maybe we wait until after November, dump them both and end up with President Pelosi.

[Stuart G]

14. OK!! Great Post.!! 4, more words....He's Nuts.! He's Crazy!!

[BigmanPigman]

23. Pence is just as crazy plus throw in the religion thing and it is NOT GOOD!

He actually believes God speaks to him. I wonder if God was speaking to him when he colluded with Putin and pals? Go get 'em Mueller!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029773455
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029892213

[catbyte]

15. The Madness of King Donald.

Reading articles like this scares the crap out of me. He's so goddamned unstable, yet 80% of Republicans and 100% of Republican "leaders" support that maniac. We are in so much trouble every fucking day he keeps infesting the White House. Hurry, Mr. Mueller. Please, please hurry.

[duforsure]

17. Is the reason he's acting out so much lately...

Because Putin sent him a message with his display of nuclear bombs hitting his Florida estate area?

[Still In Wisconsin]

18. Shit show is right.

There really isn't any better way of describing it.

[Botany]

19. " ... Kushner, done anything wrong?"

Trump has been asking people close to him whether they believe Kushner or his company
have done anything wrong, according to a senior administration official.

Money laundering
RICO
Treason
Election Rigging
Working with a hostile foreign power in order to damage the United States
extortion
bank fraud

[BumRushDaShow]

24. And probably

mail fraud
income tax fraud
among others...

[Mr. Ected]

20. Seems this is exactly what his MAGAts wanted out of him

A Washington outsider with tons of business experience to treat the USA the same way he treated his businesses.

You know, to make us all rich, since that's what presidents are supposed to do for us.

The fact that he was a failed businessman, propped up by organized crime and thuggery beyond our imaginations, a failed human being, a loudmouthed but empty-headed twitter twit, seems not to have registered in the least.

Again, as long as he echoed Rush or Sean or Fox & Friends, and as long as he ridiculed liberals and Obama and Hillary, that was sufficient. Evangelicals loved him because, you know, abortion.

Bottom line, they still view him as a political novice and give him more cover than they ever would have afforded Obama, even though they incessantly chided his inexperience as a major drawback.

His going off the rails is something the MAGAts think is funny because they think it disturbs US so much. Wait til hell breaks loose. They may not think it's so funny after all.

[Cha]

21. He's insane.

[benld74]

22. I tweeted same photo at him as well

[magicarpet]

29. Wait until trump'$ fantasia land starts crashing in...

... all around him and Mueller starts breathing fire and flames down his back neck. Then we will see the real trump meltdowns. Who knows what he will do or what horrors he is capable of once Mueller begins cranking the screws tighter and tighter on him.

Team trump is losing his very closest sycophants directly around the Oval Office as they are disbursing, disappearing, and disintegrating. Soon he will not be insulated by yes men and women surrounding him. If he has to deal with reality rather than his constructed fantasies he could become way more dangerous, unpredictable, and irrational. All his contacts and connections that keep him grounded and tethered to some extent will be gone.

That is when things could really begin to get extremely scary.

[lunasun]

30. F'n nutter take your WH out . Leave we the people out of your crazy shit please

Still in fear of some crap he could pull to show authoritiy or gain narcissistic needs

[flibbitygiblets]

31. Shouldn't someone call child protective services? Sounds like an unsafe environment for Barron.

I'm not joking. What protections are in place for him and Melania?

[Corgigal]

35. I have to write this correctly.

He, plus the family hope that the justice system does its job. They maybe too stupid to know what they are messing with.

[laserhaas]

36. What a Fumb Ducker

Behold - we give you - Donald the Great

D E S T R O Y E R

[Honeycombe8]

37. But he's always yelling & unhappy about something, isn't he?

That's his normal. I've heard repeatedly he likes the chaos, the temper tantrums, keeping people off kilter. It gives him jollies, I guess.

[MFM008]

38. Be a damn shame

If he blew out an artery.

[wishstar]

39. Maybe his Repub enablers will finally be concerned if he causes more stock market plunges

Nothing new about his chaotic lashing out amidst an incompetent disorganized WH, except that this week his impulsiveness resulted in stock market drop and his tweets about trade war threatens continuing volatility with negative economic consequences.

[sharedvalues]

42. They'll only care when their billionaire donors care

The GOP billionaire donors have constructed a propaganda machine and push out congressmen who are not true believers. The sad part is the Congress thinks they're doing the right thing - and that's because of GOP propaganda, paid for by billionaires.

[sharedvalues]

41. Pres "in transition". Yes, "in transition" to jail

Hi Bob Mueller