Reports: Frustrated and Isolated Trump Considering Staff Shakeup at Demoralized White House

By artappraiser on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 3:21am |

Nice leaker link roundup, saves time!

By Chas Danner @ Daily Intelligencer @ nymag.com, May 13

President Trump, frustrated and increasingly isolated, is considering a shakeup of his communications staff following the spectacular fallout over his stunning decision to abruptly fire FBI director James Comey on Tuesday. For their part, White House staff members don’t seem very happy, either. Unnamed administration sources, via varied comments to CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Associated Press, have painted an unsurprisingly dour picture of how things have been going at the demoralized White House, where some Trump aides say they are eager for the president’s trip abroad next week. “We need to get the President outside the beltway,” someone close to the White House explained to CNN [....]

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@ The Hill Fri. eve. Jonathan Easley published a good one:

“It’s total chaos,” said one former transition team official with close ties to the administration.

“It’s image-making on the inside and people trying to protect themselves. There is a deep streak of paranoia among staff. The communications team shit the bed on the Comey firing and now the war with the FBI has them all scared and throwing each other under the bus.

"Thank God I don’t work there. If I did, I’d be dialing up my attorney.”

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 5:04am

Make Titanic Great Again. Deck chair here, deck chair there... sounds like a plan to me.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 9:40am

Wow. Mike Allen's "huge reboot" piece referenced by NY Mag is also stunning. This reminds me of some Trump's bad weeks during the campaign, which offer a note of caution. Every time Trump's campaign nearly careened off the road, he managed to turn the wheel before it went over the edge. He may be a drunk driver who zigzags all over the street, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he'll crash.

by Michael Wolraich on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 12:22pm

"Trump has two complaints about Cabinet members: Either they're tooting their own horns too much, or they're insufficiently effusive in praising him as a brilliant diplomat, etc." - kinda like that "showboat" Comey.

One of the reasons Trump didn't careen off the road was a ton of people putting up side protectors (or basically he was driving the Sunday late night empty parking lot at Wal-Mart, not a real road with traffic).

Yes, he survived, but the reasons for that aren't yet settled on.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 1:30pm

He may be a drunk driver who zigzags all over the street, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he'll crash. Nice turn of phrase! But your whole point made me wonder, not about him, but from the other side, everyone else involved: who are all these people, why are they hanging on? Don't they realize that staying will wreck their C.V.'s and leaving and even publicly admitting why the did so would help the same? If they fight to stay on, who do they think they will get a job with in the "after Trump" future: Bretibart? Or like with celebs who want employees and professionals who not ony have no scruples but can keep their mouth shut? Or the scummiest Congresspersons? What is the reason for not flooding the exits?

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/15/2017 - 5:10am

Cause they haven't been made responsible yet - you could get Iraq dead wrong but still be invited back on talk shows forever. The economy? No one cares, just make shit up. We're all experts now...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/15/2017 - 5:21am

This time it did not even take 24 hours for Donald Trump to throw his staffers under the bus and contradict their denials: Chaotic White House once again makes a bad story worse

@ WaPo, 2 hrs. ago

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/16/2017 - 12:55pm

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