Ha! TPM "Aides Try To Distract Trump While The Walls Come Crashing Down Around Them"

[NRaleighLiberal]

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

By Kate Riga
August 22, 2018 7:56 am
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.

Many staffers told Politico that Tuesday was the “one of the darkest days” for Trump’s presidency, and fretted that the legal peril so many Trump associates have found themselves in could lend credence to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, just by nature of the taint of criminality smearing the White House.

Some are reportedly worried that all of the scandal will add fire to the Democrats’ desire to impeach him, adding that Tuesday’s turmoil only makes it more important for Republicans to hold the House and protect the President.

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.”

[Freethinker65]

1. Trump will be kept in his bubble and sedated if necessary

He might have to be convinced to take it easy on enriching himself, friends, and family at taxpayer expense until the midterms are over. Otherwise it will be Trump as usual.

[ffr]

2. Aides & staffers should exit, less be tainted by this sh*tstain of a president.

Or go down with the ship like a loyal rube.

[unblock]

3. really remarkable that aside from the bad policies, the criminality, and hateful rhetoric,

he's still a terrible choice for president.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

4. Do you think it went something like this?

[Mc Mike]

5. Firstly, 'get in these moods' is confirmation of that 'black moods' rumor many many have talked of.

Secondly, 'one of the darkest days' should have '... since yesterday' added to it, for accuracy and clarity.

And part c, that line about 'the volcanic President' makes me want to apologize to TheFerret. When ferret referred to 'the Sphincter Volcano occupying the White House', I thought it was just unfair over the top hyperbole.

I see I was mistaken.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. So we pay millions for his golf and traveling bc

he's upset. Lifestyles of the not so rich and famous. Fuck that. Go to work. Try that. Tired of pampering the already overly pampered.