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Inside the ‘adult day care

artappraiser — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:12:58 +0000

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Inside the ‘adult day care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump

Some White House aides spend a significant part of their time devising ways to rein in the impetuous president, angling to avoid outbursts that might work against him, according to interviews with 18 aides, confidants and outside advisers.

By Ashley Parker & Greg Jaffe @ WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 16

THE QUESTION: why these leakers still? Is Kelly crying out for support from the GOP? Or what?

Yes, a few things he can do

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:12:52 +0000

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Yes, a few things he can do by Executive action. He's not very good at pulling together a consensus, fortunately.

Trump saw this similar

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:43:10 +0000

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Trump saw this similar NYTimes piece, it got his goat and he tweeted in response:

Analysis: Promise the Moon? Easy for Trump. But Now Comes the Reckoning.

By Peter Baker, Oct 14

WASHINGTON — President Trump leaves little doubt about what he thinks of his predecessor’s top domestic and international legacies. The health care program enacted by President Barack Obama is “outrageous” and “absolutely destroying everything in its wake.” The nuclear deal with Iran is “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”

Yet as much as he has set his sights on them, Mr. Trump after nearly nine months in office has not actually gotten rid of either. Instead, in the past few days, he took partial steps to undercut both initiatives and then left it to Congress to figure out what to do next [.....]

The Failing @nytimes, in a story by Peter Baker, should have mentioned the rapid terminations by me of TPP & The Paris Accord & the fast....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2017

...approvals of The Keystone XL & Dakota Access pipelines. Also, look at the recent EPA cancelations & our great new Supreme Court Justice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2017