The Trump Administration is Falling Apart

[mentalfloss]

Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff

By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
July 28, 2017

Reince Priebus, ousted as the White House chief of staff, in June.

Al Drago / The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the establishment Republican-turned-loyalist to President Trump who served as his White House chief of staff for the last six months, was pushed out on Friday in the latest convulsion in a chaos-wracked West Wing to which he had repeatedly failed to bring some semblance of order.

Convinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough, Mr. Trump has been talking about bringing in “a general” as chief of staff and chose John F. Kelly, the retired Marine four-star general serving as secretary of homeland security. But some of his advisers oppose that idea, arguing that Mr. Trump needs someone more in tune with the nationalist political movement that helped propel him to the White House.

Mr. Priebus, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, lost his job just hours after the president’s signature drive to repeal his predecessor’s health care program collapsed on the Senate floor and a day after an ugly feud with the new communications director erupted in a public airing of the deep animosities plaguing the White House.

The announcement capped a fraught 24 hours in which the president’s advisers waited for a change they had long anticipated. Mr. Priebus accompanied Mr. Trump on Air Force One for a day trip to Long Island as his fate was being decided. Making for a tense flight, his rival, Anthony Scaramucci, the communications director who had publicly vowed to force Mr. Priebus’s resignation, was also on the plane and in the motorcade.

In barely half a year on the job, Mr. Priebus never won the full confidence of the president nor was granted the authority to impose a working organizational structure on the West Wing. Always seeming to be on the edge of ouster, Mr. Priebus saw his fate finally sealed a week ago when Mr. Trump hired Mr. Scaramucci, an edgy Wall Street financier, over the chief of staff’s objections. Mr. Priebus’s ally, Sean Spicer, the press secretary, resigned in protest.

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[Curious Cdn]

What a larf! The Trumpadistas are eating each other!

"Leader of the Free World" eh?

Incompetent.

 

[Walter]

Just plugged a big leak. Good on Trump.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Just plugged a big leak. Good on Trump.

You have really low standards, Walter.

Jeff Sessions next? ... for being a proper attorney instead of an as-kissing sycophant?

 

[Walter]

You have really low standards, Walter.

Jeff Sessions next? ... for being a proper attorney instead of an as-kissing sycophant?

The Sessions thing is just a distraction as Sessions gets set to go after BHO's regime and the Clintons.

 

[justlooking]

Just plugged a big leak. Good on Trump.

True enough, Jeebus was one of the biggest leakers. Republican insider put in to destroy Trump from the inside,
the Republican Party should be dissolved.

Scaramucci,.. edgy ? No, he will a complete son of a bitch. The fights will be legendary. The destruction
of traitor Republicans will be complete.

Can't wait.

 

[Angstrom]

This is what i would expect a white house under Trump would be. The same way it is ran in big business.
I knew it was going to be different. America voted for a business man, not a politician. And he's going to run this thing like a business office.

Only a idiot like mentalflake would think Trump would run the white house like a politician.

Thanks for reaffirming what we already knew mentalflake.

 

[Curious Cdn]

True enough, Jeebus was one of the biggest leakers. Republican insider put in to destroy Trump from the inside,
the Republican Party should be dissolved.

Scaramucci,.. edgy ? No, he will a complete son of a bitch. The fights will be legendary. The destruction
of traitor Republicans will be complete.

Can't wait.

The destruction of a Republican Presidency will be complete. Pence will be their savior.

This is what i would expect a white house under Trump would be. The same way it is ran in big business.
I knew it was going to be different. America voted for a business man, not a politician. And he's going to run this thing like a business office.

Only a idiot like mentalflake would think Trump would run the white house like a politician.

Thanks for reaffirming what we already knew mentalflake.

The White House IS NOT a sole proprietorship and Trump has no business trying to run it like one. In politics, sole proprietorships are also known as dictatorships and either the American Republic ends (and it might) or Trump is stopped and removed by whatever means as dictators eventually always are.

 

[Angstrom]

Im not surprised at all that Trump is running it like a business. Anyone that was expecting different is retarded.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The administration was never "togherher" or remotely organized. to begin with.

There has been no stability in staff or procedure s for doing policy and with Trump undermining his own staff and statements with his pathological Twitter activity .............it is no surprise to see things as they are todasy.

Trump might be a businessman of sorts......but he is NO leader and exhibits his lack of leadership skills daily.
And he has no clue as to how to govern let alone run a country's administration.

In reality he is a FAKE. (to put it in very simple terms)

It is one thing to "shake things up" but the way this bunch is doing it is totally destructive and THEY HAVE NO PLAN.........just empty promises.There is NO substance to this group


"let Trump be Trump" is a prescription that could end badly.

 

[Corduroy]

That's a good test of Scaramouche's character. Scaramouche is an expert brown noser and coat tail rider. Google his pre-Trump Twitter history. The man will say anything to ingratiate himself. He flipped to the most sycophantic Trump supporter as soon as he saw the writing on the wall.

As such, it was hard to believe he'd say what he said about Priebus without being safe in the knowledge that Priebus was on his way out. You can tell he's a little asslicking bottom feeder. He wouldn't have had the courage to come out against Priebus if Priebus was still powerful in the Trump administration.

My guess is that all the things he said this week were echoes of what Trump said to him in private. He went to the press and said exactly what Trump told him so Trump would hear it and be impressed.

He also ripped Bannon, so...

 

[eh1eh]

My favorite thing about Reince Priebus is the fact that if you take all the vowels out of his name, it says "RNC PR BS"

 

[Ocean Breeze]

That's a good test of Scaramouche's character. Scaramouche is an expert brown noser and coat tail rider. Google his pre-Trump Twitter history. The man will say anything to ingratiate himself. He flipped to the most sycophantic Trump supporter as soon as he saw the writing on the wall.

As such, it was hard to believe he'd say what he said about Priebus without being safe in the knowledge that Priebus was on his way out. You can tell he's a little asslicking bottom feeder. He wouldn't have had the courage to come out against Priebus if Priebus was still powerful in the Trump administration.

My guess is that all the things he said this week were echoes of what Trump said to him in private. He went to the press and said exactly what Trump told him so Trump would hear it and be impressed.

He also ripped Bannon, so...

Sounds about right. The thing is that TRump is sadistic enough to be actually enjoying all this chaos and hurt he is creating by his unpredictable conduct and all these firings in such a short time.

Perhaps Trump needs a military type (which represents strength to him) in that positions as maybe maybe he might listen. ( would not bet on it )

Trump defines the words "loose cannon"

He also enjoys stirring things up ......for the sake of stirring them up.

Wonder how the general atmosphere and morale is at the white house. What must it be like working in anxiety and not knowing what will happen next?

Perhaps Kelly will become the real leader while Trump does what he does best..........be a figurehead. without substance.

 

[TenPenny]

Just plugged a big leak. Good on Trump.

Did he kill himself?

Im not surprised at all that Trump is running it like a business. Anyone that was expecting different is retarded.

Yes, true, but it's a guaranteed fail. Government is not a business.


Of course, he runs his businesses to go to bankruptcy anyway.

 

[Angstrom]

Yes, true, but it's a guaranteed fail. Government is not a business.
Of course, he runs his businesses to go to bankruptcy anyway.

Its difficult to be the first at doing things. Stupid people will tell you it can't be done. And when asked why, they will tell you cause its never been done that way.

And thats ok. If it was easy anyone could do it.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Did he kill himself?





Yes, true, but it's a guaranteed fail. Government is not a business.


Of course, he runs his businesses to go to bankruptcy anyway.

He also fuels his business with Russian money. Mind you, the U.S. government is a hell of a laundry to clean up ill-gotten Russian dosh.

 

[Angstrom]

Trump wasn't elected to run the status quote. He was elected to governor differently.

Difficult new things are hard to get right on the first try. You can't let that bother you, if you plan on doing anything worthwhile.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Trump wasn't elected to run the status quote. He was elected to governor differently.

He was elected to govern. So far, he has failed miserably. He is NOT supposed to be the President of the one-third of the USA that elected him. He is supposed to be everyone's President and that is way, way beyond him.

 

[Angstrom]

He was elected to govern. So far, he has failed miserably. He is NOT supposed to be the President of the one-third of the USA that elected him. He is supposed to be everyone's President and that is way, way beyond him.

Change isn't easy. Doing things different isn't easy. Trump's not planning to do things the way it has been established. He is anty establishment. The whole system will fight him every moment of his presidency.

And that was exactly what he was elected to do.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Change isn't easy. Doing things different isn't easy. Trump's not planning to do things the way it has been established. He is anty establishment. The whole system will fight him every moment of his presidency.

Yeah... this democracy thing... the American people will learn to live without it and embrace their great leader.