Basically, all of the words he used in that rant, added together, work out to “clusterfuck” (with a sign value of “total”).
Problem with that would be convincing the remaining cabinet members (which at this point, in an ironic twist, only consists of Scruffy the Janitor, Charo the Cockroach, Pepe the Parrot, and Mumbles the Monkey). Good luck getting more than 50% of them to agree on said proposition.
I thought Pepe was a frog?
If it’s true that trump wants to oust ivanka and jared, why doesn’t he just tell them to scram? Why would someone else have to fire them?
Apparently, in real life, Trump is a spineless wimp who can’t stand to fire people.
If it’s a problem of not wanting to fire family, then while firing them, you learn the lesson of that’s why you don’t hire them in the first place.
If I were John Kelly and I wanted to get rid of everyone who could interfere with my running the Presidency (via the half-witted figurehead Trump), I might “leak” the notion that Trump wanted to get rid of his daughter and son-in-law. It’s sort of barely plausible: Trump does have a record of keeping people off-balance by floating rumors, and he does like to keep said off-balance people motivated to try to please him.
So Ivanka and Jared might suspect that Kelly made the whole thing up, but they couldn’t be completely certain. Because Trump is prone to doing that sort of thing.
While they wait to see if press attention to their various financial adventures dies down, they have to worry that Dear Old Dad doesn’t actually have their backs. Which could lead them to decide that the better part of self-preservation is to get out.
Leaving Kelly with a pretty clear mandate to rule (particularly if McMaster is forced out, too). Who’s left to stop Kelly from manipulating the dotard as he pleases? Trump will do anything you ask, as long as you promise him cheeseburgers today, a golf game tomorrow, and a rally next week.
Ivanka will pout and sit on her daddy’s lap and that old orange idiot will pick up the phone and have someone tell Kelly he’s fired.
And bless his pea-pickin’ heart! Mark Shields, ladies and gentlemen, pals and gals, the avatar of frumpy! David Brooks knows how, knows that one needs to actively wear a suit, to set oneself, shoulders, arms, elbows in a pattern that flatters the tailoring.
But even if he took Uncle Mark to his favorite tailor and bought him the very best on offer, Mark would still look as though he donned the suit, napped inside a running dryer for a couple hours and then walked onto the soundstage.
(Bob Newhart, many years ago, had a bit about the coordinator in charge of Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the USA. [Note to Puppy Dopers: he was a Russian] He is talking on the phone to the police who are trying to figure out which one he was out of the group exiting the airplane.
“See a guy who looks like he slept in his suit for ten hours? That’s him!”)
He will gladly do anything Tuesday for a cheeseburger today! Except pay you.
By all accounts Trump hates Kelly. And has from the first day Kelly started telling him what he could and couldn’t do. (Trump was fine with Kelly during his Homeland Security tenure.)
That he hasn’t found a way to get rid of him yet, tells me Trump is scared spitless of Kelly. He won’t fire him, no matter how sexily Ivanka pouts.
Well, Tuesday. Not necessarily the very next Tuesday. But a Tuesday, you can rely on that!
Yes, he truly is too wimpy. Mr. Never-Take-Responsibility (just as the cartoon has it).
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods
Trade wars are easy.
There was a thread on the big windstorm in the DC area Friday, and it got me to wondering. You cannot (well, ought not at least) take off in a 747 when the wind is gusting 30~40, so how did Shitgibbon get to Florida this weekend?
Which got me to imagining the presidential motorcade tooling down I-95 and over to A-1-A.
Does the White House calligrapher have that sort of authority?
Something popped up on my feed today. Apparently, last month Paul Ryan blamed ‘entitlements’ for the deficit increase. I’d post a link, but I can’t find text and I hate videos. If you’re OK with videos, search ‘Deficit increase is due to entitlement spending’.
Lemme help: Maria Bartiromo’s Twitter. Both text and video at that link.
He always says that. You know “entitlements” refers to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Stuff those terrible poor people need to live. We should probably ship them to Mexico.
Build the wall first, otherwise, they’ll just come right back.