All the King's Jackasses (holding Trumpty together?)

By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 5:24pm |

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https://amp.slate.com/culture/2018/09/bob-woodwards-new-book-fear-trump-in-the-white-house-reviewed.html

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Though I haven't read the book, not privy to a pre-publication version, I've been following Woodward's public statements and tweets and the like and I disagree with the implication here that he's sending an "under control" message. Sort of the opposite, he keeps sending messages that imply "danger, danger, warning, warning, really scary stuff going on here." To the point where someone cynical could think it's to increase sales.

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 8:18pm

point as to your title, appearances are that they are not holding together that well:

The worst hurricane to hit coastal Carolina in a long time is poised to make landfall soon. Would have expected a briefing on that - maybe that’s tomorrow... https://t.co/p1VvaI8POn
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 10, 2018

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 9:05pm

The hurricane and what it might bring hurts my North Carolina home heart - Trump's FEMA scares me more than the storm.

by barefooted on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 9:29pm

my sympathies, I am already sad about what may come. Have spent some time inland parts southern border, round Charlotte, Rock Hill and also in SC, Greenville. I liked and always wanted to move on to explore the coast but hadn't been able.

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 10:01pm

My home now is Minnesota, but my heart still resides in the Tarheel state. I'm old enough to remember several hurricanes (none of which were fun), including some real heart-stoppers. This one scares me.

by barefooted on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 10:15pm

Trump adviser concedes GDP tweet was false

Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett suggested that blamed "somebody" for "adding a zero" in economic numbers that made their way to President Trump, who incorrectly claimed in a tweet this morning that the GDP rate is higher than the unemployment rate for the fist time in 100 years.

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump

The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years!

7:03 AM - Sep 10, 2018

"I don't know the whole chain of command," Hassett offered, "but what is true is that it's the highest in 10 years. And at some point, somebody probably conveyed it to him, adding a zero to that, and they shouldn't have done that."

About those numbers

The first two numbers are correct, although they measure completely different things, and in different ways [....]

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Follow the White House press briefing

By Veronica Rocha and Brian Ries, CNN.com, Updated 8 hr 20 min ago3:28 p.m. ET, September 10, 2018

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/10/2018 - 11:47pm

I'm becoming convinced Trump and henchmen did this to distract from the disastrous Kavanaugh hearings. The tone is "Trump's direction is ok if he wouldn't keep falling down", which is the farthest thing from the truth. But Kavanaugh has snuck through - we're on to tennis now, oops, that was yesterday, now the hurricane - forget about sober discussion of important appointments. Trump knows the news cycle will pass on *everything* he does.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/11/2018 - 2:21am

All the King's Jackasses (holding Trumpty together?)

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