Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows frequently cries at work: report

By artappraiser on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 4:41am |

Nobody said the job was easy.

Former North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, just weeks on the job as President Trump’s chief of staff, has already been brought to tears at work on several occasions, according to a report in the New York Times.

The waterworks took place at least twice during meetings with White House staff and in at least one case was witnessed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The burst of emotions resulted from meetings discussing internal staffing changes [....]

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Several business leaders were reportedly unaware they were on the advisory group until the president read their names in the Rose Garden on Tuesday. “My company is furious,” one lobbyist said.

By Eric Lutz @ VanityFair.com, April 16

Until Donald Trump read their names out loud in the Rose Garden of the White House this week, leaders from several high-profile corporations had no idea they’d been tapped to help advise the president to restart the nation’s coronavirus-ravaged economy. “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden,” a lobbyist for one of the blindsided companies told the Washington Post Wednesday. “What the [expletive]? How do you go from ‘Join us on a call’ to, ‘Well, you’re on the team?’”

McDonald’s, Cisco, and Pfizer were among the companies to be taken by surprise by their inclusion in Trump’s so-called “Opening Our Country Council,” a task force of the “best and smartest” industry leaders that the president said Tuesday would help guide the resuscitation of the United States economy [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 5:05am

no guts no comment:

We reached out to a bunch of companies on Trump’s industry groups aimed at reopening the economy and asked if the CEO supported the rhetoric around “liberating” states. ⁦@sokane1⁩ with the shocking results: https://t.co/SwoImtiolh pic.twitter.com/8iVH72Wt9k
— nilay patel (@reckless) April 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 5:25am

absurdly late, but it's a start (really how could the rest of them in the White House be so clueless as to not do this?)

.@VP starts his remarks at the podium by offering condolences to the more than 41K Americans who have died from the virus, something
Trump did not mention.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 7:33pm

Here’s the story the president just confirmed, saying Meadows may have shed tears for “other” reasons (the story didn’t say why). https://t.co/74rFir6N21
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 6:23am

Trump whines on TV every day. Lack of tears doesn't change much, just he's a cold fish.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 7:06am

This is a photo of President Johnson in 1968 about the time American deaths in Vietnam reached 40,000, the number of Americans dead so far from COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/KU1Gbb9Byf
— glennwsmith (@glennwsmith) April 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 5:33pm

Oh, so "Build a Wall" means another Vietnam Memorial Wall? Guess I was slow figuring out that one.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 7:48pm

Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows frequently cries at work: report

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