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George Bush can now do a "I

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:24:01 +0000

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George Bush can now do a "I toldja so!" on the whole "being president, it's hard work, it's hard" thing:

Trump vexed by challenges, scale of government

Politico - ‎14 hours ago‎

Being president is harder than Donald Trump thought, according to aides and allies who say that he's growing increasingly frustrated with the challenges of running the massive federal bureaucracy.

White House aides are already

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:10:07 +0000

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White House aides are already eager to dish dirt about Trump

MSNBC - ‎5 hours ago‎

News is continually being

rmrd0000 — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:20:38 +0000

In reply to Paula: But Charles I saw you

News is continually being reported. Trump thinks that he can doing anything he wishes in the name of national security. He also believes that the 3 judges on the panel reviewing his plan halting immigration are biased.

http://thedailybanter.com/2017/02/trump-accuses-3-judges-of-political-bias/

Trump is dangerous. Reporters are giving us details on the depth of his madness. We have to stay focused and separate nonsense from glaring warnings.

Edit to add:

Reporting tells us that his senior advisor, Steve Bannon, thinks the apocalypse is upon us.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_us_5898f02ee...?

They are feeding each other's psychosis

Paula: But Charles I saw you

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:00:18 +0000

In reply to This little follow-up in the

Paula: But Charles I saw you walking in the hall in a bathrobe

Charles: But my poor Paula, I don't own a bathrobe

The followup is most appreciated as I wouldn't know about the elaboration which just adds to the effect to have Thrush explaining to another journalist. Also related: normally I would think it silly to want to followup on this kind of story, all a waste of time while major news is being made elsewhere. But nothing about the current White House is normal. Or is it? Is this all a game to get us all to drop the media and to get our news framed directly from Trump's tweets? Cue your new post "In the News":I Understand Now!

Rereading this gave me an

Beetlejuice — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:16:32 +0000

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Rereading this gave me an epiphany ... Mr Trump is so sure of himself and lives in a secured bubble whose purpose is to smooth out the ruffles of every day life that public protests, government officials and judges questioning his motives and the media orchestrating comical spoofs of his efforts is beginning to anger him because he can't use his presidential powers to control their actions.

This little follow-up in the

barefooted — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:35:45 +0000

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This little follow-up in the Post is supposed to be, I guess, a sort of "cute" background of the story with Glenn Thrush, focused on Spicer's odd interest in the bathrobe part. But I found this statement from Thrush a bit disturbing (my bold):

“Every single fact in this story, including the bathrobe, by the way,” Thrush told Barbaro, “was presented to two top members of the president’s team 24 hours in advance of publication. Some of the points they amended and corrected and we changed in the text, others they agreed with or said it was unobjectionable, others they said they didn’t know about.”

Vanity Fair/Politics/You're

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:54:47 +0000

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Vanity Fair/Politics/You're Fired (so cavaet: could be some 'fake news' in here, but generally is a fairly extensive roundup and analysis of what MSM has had to say):

WHO’S WINNING, AND LOSING, THE WHITE HOUSE APPRENTICE?

Advisers continue to jockey for power in the West Wing. So who is on top?

By Emily Jane Fox, Feb. 6

A shower of knives going in

artappraiser — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:27:51 +0000

In reply to Amazing article. Some

A shower of knives going in every direction. I pride myself on having learned some decoding of reporter language on leaks. I can't figure a damn thing out here, it's total chaos.

Only one thing for sure: Glenn Thrush is journalism's new IT BOY! First he's a star character in Melissa McCarthy's genius Saturday Night Live parody of a White House briefing, and then his phone starts ringing off the hook.

Amazing article. Some

Bruce Levine — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:32:43 +0000

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Amazing article. Some serious leaking going on at 1600 PA Ave.