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Snellius

(6,881 posts)
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 08:19 AM Aug 2018

Aides Try To Distract Trump While The Walls Come Crashing Down Around Them

Source: TPM via Politico

As President Donald Trump flew to West Virginia for a rally Tuesday night, he carried heavy cargo—a conviction for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a guilty plea from his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, an indictment of one of his earliest endorsers Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and a story about his National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow inviting a white nationalist publisher to his birthday party.

Infamous for his mercurial temperament, Trump is likely to explode at any moment with a barrage of angry and possibly self-incriminating tweets. As his aides whisper nervously about the possibility of his future impeachment, they’re doing their best to keep the volcanic President distracted, according to a Tuesday Politico report.
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As one former White House aide phrased it to Politico, now staffers are just working to “minimize the amount of self harm” Trump could do to himself in his rage. The plan is to keep Trump distracted with golf and rallies, to give him less time to stew.

“He’s almost like a volcano, which sometimes blows off steam without taking out the village below,” the former official added. “The busier he is, the less likely he’s going to get in these moods and watch TV and get more and more angry.”


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aides-try-to-distract-trump-while-the-walls-come-crashing-down-around-them

Watch out! Get back! He's going to blow.

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Aides Try To Distract Trump While The Walls Come Crashing Down Around Them (Original Post) Snellius Aug 2018 OP
2 scoops of ice cream & KFC would help too I bet. irisblue Aug 2018 #1
Loaded with sedatives Zadate Aug 2018 #6
+1. Give him more to eat dalton99a Aug 2018 #9
eet's only waffer theen 0rganism Aug 2018 #17
So our federal employee #1 aka 1-Individual has a no show job MaryMagdaline Aug 2018 #2
For people at his age and mental state don't they usually turn the TV on TO distract him? underpants Aug 2018 #3
love it bdamomma Aug 2018 #4
Thanks for the laugh... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2018 #7
I think TV is the problem, not the solution here. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #11
Let him stew. LiberalFighter Aug 2018 #5
Try shaking your keys in front of his face. tanyev Aug 2018 #8
Shouldn't the media be demanding a press conference about now? gratuitous Aug 2018 #10
Oh please - who listens to Turd anymore? Waste of time. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #12
A what? "Press conference?" What's that? He wouldn't dare. Snellius Aug 2018 #15
That must have been a turbulent flight! Yonnie3 Aug 2018 #13
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2018 #14
All these aides should be a prison as well.. They are complicit in treason. pangaia Aug 2018 #16
Lots of salty foods would help him. jalan48 Aug 2018 #18

MaryMagdaline

(6,855 posts)
2. So our federal employee #1 aka 1-Individual has a no show job
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 08:32 AM
Aug 2018

And his aids have to fill his day with golf trips and rallies at taxpayer expense so that he is not sad.

At least Nixon was planning a trip to China, working on clean water and trying to run a war in Vietnam.

I want my money back.

tanyev

(42,559 posts)
8. Try shaking your keys in front of his face.
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 08:44 AM
Aug 2018

Or get the Secret Service to take him out for a nice long ride.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. Shouldn't the media be demanding a press conference about now?
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 08:49 AM
Aug 2018

I know that Trump held one press conference in his first month in office, and that should probably be enough for anyone. But in light of recent events, don't the American people deserve some answers from the President of the United States?

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
15. A what? "Press conference?" What's that? He wouldn't dare.
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 04:41 PM
Aug 2018

Unless his self-destructive instincts madly send him out babbling in his bathrobe. That's a creepy thought.

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