Less than a month into the job and Donald Trump is reportedly over being president. At least according to several anonymous sources who spoke to Politico.
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According to one of the sources, Mr. Trump’s “mood has careened between surprise and anger as he’s faced the predictable realities of governing.” Tension runs high and paranoia runs deep within the administration, with another source claiming people are “very careful who they talk to.” And Trump, who is said to be a micromanager, and his innermost circle are convinced the National Security Council are “out to get them.”
Last week, Donald reportedly told an aide that he was very unhappy about all the infighting among White House staffers “because it reflects on me,” and that he plans to hold a staff meeting to tell everyone “to cut this sh*t out.” Not to mention all the leaks! The leaks! They’ve gotta do something about all the leaks!
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On top of all that, sources say Easy D often asks very elementary questions about the most basic policies, and when people try to explain them to him, he appears to quickly grow confused by the details and will find a way to change the subject, the source believes, to “seem in control.” (The New York Times adds that he likes his memos kept to a single page, written in bullet points, maps, and graphs. “The president likes maps,” one official said.) For instance, Donald doesn’t seem to understand how a judge can overrule an executive order or why lawmakers might delay a cabinet confirmation, a claim that seems to be supported by his angry tweets:
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
It is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. Obstruction by Democrats!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2017
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
In addition to watching television for hours and hours (and hours) a day, as reported by the New York Times last month, Trump also allegedly likes to take breaks throughout the workday to call up his old golfing buddies and talk about what they love most: Golf. There’s even a running joke among aides that he would rather be on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago (which we calls the “Winter White House”) than sitting in Washington, D.C., another claim that seems to be supported by his tweets:
Melania and I are hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mrs. Abe at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. They are a wonderful couple!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2017
A working dinner tonight with Prime Minister Abe of Japan, and his representatives, at the Winter White House (Mar-a-Lago). Very good talks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2017
Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2017
“He doesn’t like this sh*t,” one source said.
Yeah, we kind of figured he wouldn’t.
Donald, the feeling is mutual.
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mhoffman953
“At least according to several anonymous sources who spoke to Politico. ”
I’m doubting the legitimacy of this report. We’ve learned from Wikileaks that Politico was being fed stories by the DNC. In one email, a writer for Politico let leaders of the DNC read and re-write his article before giving it to editors to publish.
Juanjo
Yes Miss Hoffman, we all know you do not like anything that criticizes the Orange howler monkey.
Hogwasher
Please, Politico leans right and Wikileaks is no friend of Hillary. Wikileaks is now the darling of the right wing including Hannity. Assange is wanted in Sweden for rape. He’s getting desperate and creepier by the day.
mhoffman953
@juanjo I’m perfectly fine with people criticizing the President and politicians as long as their points and arguments are based in facts and not speculation or hearsay. The entire article is based on hearsay from an “anonymous source”. Also what is the deal with referring to me as “Miss”? I never specified my gender, but it seems like you used the pronoun Miss with a negative connotation as if being a woman would be a negative because you followed the response by calling the President a monkey. Imagine the outrage if you did the same with Obama. Two wrongs, don’t make a right, but I guess you weren’t listening when Michelle Obama said “when they go low, we go high”.
@Hogwasher I never said Politico was right wing or left wing. I merely stated that a writer for the website was in connection with the DNC and published articles approved by the DNC. That shows a major conflict of interest and diminishes the integrity of unbiased journalism. Regardless of how you feel about Wikileaks, they post truthful documents.
gayjim1969
You are aware that ALL reporters use anonymous sources, right? All of the “unofficial” information coming from the White House is coming from anonymous sources, regardless of the news source. I find it odd that someone would find it hard to believe that Donald Trump is finding the realities of governing less satisfying than the dreams he likely had about the experience.
You’re impugning Politico’s credibility on the basis of one writer’s ethical lapses: that is an odd thing for someone with no biases to do.
“I merely stated that a writer for the website was in connection with the DNC and published articles approved by the DNC. That shows a major conflict of interest and diminishes the integrity of unbiased journalism.”–For that writer. Do you see how you are painting with a too broad a brush here?
As to your assertion that “Wikileaks…post[s] truthful documents,” they are a go-between. They aren’t the source of the leaked material; therefore, they don’t know whether they are accurate or not. They don’t care whether they are accurate or not, only that they get them. Julian Assange had an agenda for every data dump that he leaked. If you think he’s a friend of the US, think again: he’s been anti-American all of his life. The Russians were the source of the DNC–and other–hacks. He just passed them along. Security experts have repeatedly said that there is ALWAYS altered and totally fabricated information in hacked files.
NateOcean
SCROTUS
So Called Ruler Of The United States
RIGay
ROFL!!!!!!
CaliKyle
Consider that stolen! So perfectly spot on
Record Man
I like that even more than the name a friend of mine came up with for the Press Secretary, Sean Sphincter!
gggreggg
O.M.G. I thought scrotus was a really snarky reference to
“scrotum” —- really!!
pattygale
Of course, he does. It’s work, you are watched, criticized, and (Hopefully) held accountable, no matter how much money you have or how many attorneys you employ. It’s like people who put all their energy into the excitement of a wedding, never realizing marriage can be tough. Plus, he’s an idiot. ?
GayEGO
and a Dufus!
GayEGO
Donnie does not like to lose, like his immigration ban, his theatrics are his biggest talent and he is unhappy that we are not believing him like he wants, orders us to do. :>)
jason_evans
Fake news is a dime a dozen these days. Almost as fake as a man claiming to be a woman, actually.
alissa914
Seriously? On an LGBT site you’d go there?
DMRX
Oh, shut up Brian. Can’t you find another site to troll?
dwes09
“Almost as fake as a man claiming to be a woman, actually.”
Look Brian, we are all aware of your neurotic distaste for all those who differ from you, and really wish you would go elsewhere, as this is a site for actual LGBT people. We are all amused by the constant mistaking of your imagination for reality, and hope you don’t mind being a laughingstock with every post you write.
Curtispsf
So Dumpster does not like being SCROTUS and the people do not like him being SCROTUS (So Called Ruler of the United States)? I suggest he resign which would be a win-win for the country although then we would have to contend with Pence. Quit or be impeached…your choice.
Terrycloth
I gave him 6 months before somebody “gets” him or he’s impeached…He will say or do something that even his closest to him in his cabinet say you’ve gone too far…then we will have to do something about Pence and president Bannon
jlew64
From your mouth to you know whose ears! Unfortunately we kept thinking he’d ‘go too far’ during the campaign… but nothing he said or did was too far for his supporters. 🙁
Record Man
I’ve always said that Trump would ruin himself in a year or less, and that he’d either get impeached, or pressured by his own party into resigning. But I never thought things would get this bad so quickly.
Forget about God Bless America; God Help America!
He BGB
Where is Melania? First time a first lady is MIA. I get the feeling she married him for his money.
chris_clb614
Someone needs to have a viewing of The First Wives Club. If you haven’t done so, it’s mandatory.
Silent_Joe
I wondered, after he won the election, how he would be able to handle being President. One thing about this job it, you’re under heavy criticism from every direction, and Trump does not handle criticism well at all. If he doesn’t run this country into the ground, I get the feeling that the next four years will break him.
kprules
i wish this were true, but he already filed for re-election. he can’t stand being out of the spotlight.
Jack Meoff
Sounds like he doesn’t like it because he doesn’t understand it and he doesn’t have the ultimate power he presumed he would have. Reminds of Jafar from Aladdin.
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