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

Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.

These are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much farther President Trump and his administration may plunge into unrest and malaise before they start to recover. As one official put it: “We haven’t bottomed out.”

Trump is now a president in transition, at times angry and increasingly isolated. He fumes in private that just about every time he looks up at a television screen, the cable news headlines are trumpeting yet another scandal. He voices frustration that son-in-law Jared Kushner has few on-air defenders. He revives old grudges. And he confides to friends that he is uncertain about whom to trust. ...

Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey said the American people — and Congress especially — should be alarmed.

“I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well,” McCaffrey said. “Trump’s judgment is fundamentally flawed, and the more pressure put on him and the more isolated he becomes, I think, his ability to do harm is going to increase.”

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Just got done building engines for nine hours in one. More of our parts, components are made in-house than the Big Three’s. The company is more loyal and a better corporate citizen to the state it is located in than the Big Three. It’s hiring THOUSANDS of Americans without college degrees to well-paying jobs with affordable health insurance. To wage war against Japanese and German carmakers is anti-American at this point.

 

Do you think he’ll declare himself president for life right when he fires Mueller, or at a later date?

 

Would love to know the response the room -- if it was at all audible -- when their president suggested democracy might need to give way to authoritarian rule one day.
Congrats, Trumpists. This is your leader.

 

The world’s greatest troll.

 

Probably something like this:

 

Which party is responsible for this?

 

This one did nothing for me. The first two paragraphs could have been written about any week of his presidency.

 

McCaffrey's quote was the hook.

And this one:

“Trump’s fundamentally distorted personality — which at its core is chaotic, volatile and transgressive — when combined with the powers of the presidency had to end poorly,” said Peter Wehner, a veteran of the three previous Republican administrations and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “What we’re now seeing is the radiating effects of that, and it’s enveloped him, his White House, his family and his friends.”

 

So the WSJ editorialist is right when he disagrees with Trump?

When rich Republicans start saying something will hurt the middle class, it’s entirely possible they’re, you know, full of it.

 

On Social issues the WSJ can be regressively old fashioned, what conservative used to mean. On economic policy they are fairly representitve of the money class but not the Koch Bros type. They do need to come around on clean and renewable energy, but they are, at their core, representative of legacy industries.

But on this trade issue, they are solid. Besides, trump is an ignoramus about al ost everything.

 

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I bet they still wish the shooting never happened and were just unknown high school kids.