White House Official to 'Axios: Trump "Just Trolling All of You" With "Calm Before the Storm" Remark

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by Aidan McLaughlin 9:26 am, October 6th, 2017

Axioss Jonathan Swan appeared on MSNBC to discuss President Donald Trumps ominous remark from the White House Thursday night referencing a calm before the storm and made an interesting revelation.

MSNBCs Stephanie Ruhle said the remark, which Trump declined to elucidate to reporters, is part of the presidents love for drama and reality T.V.

I think theres a high degree of probability that hes trolling everyone, Swan said. I was talking to a senior official last night, somebody who, I should stress, is not on the NSC, who would not be privy to any covert operations, Swan continued. And they started laughing, saying: Dont you get it? Hes just trolling all of you.'

Of course its trolling with very serious consequences, Swan noted. This is what he does with national security.



Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/white-house-official-to-axios-trump-just-trolling-all-of-you-with-calm-before-the-storm-remark/

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[Javaman]

1. trumpster fire trolling the world

fucking idiot 13 year old boy as president.

[RKP5637]

6. Trump, is a total airhead! n/t

[Zoonart]

14. Mentally ill.

[RKP5637]

15. Very much so! n/t

[Scarsdale]

19. Maybe the Kelly

resignation is the "storm"? How will Jared handle this added responsibility? He and Ivanka take long weekends, pretending to be Jewish. Working part time just does not cut it with tRump. Even his miserable wife has to go everywhere with him, taking charge of his meds, when Ivanka is not around.

[RKP5637]

25. It's so dysfunctional and unstable, it's astounding we are living through this in a presidency. n/t

[Hortensis]

36. Axios provides neither insight nor dependable information. Proudly.

Maybe learn more about it. Axios sprang from a startup to being quoted everywhere at hyperspeed. Alarming, but not surprising, to those who know it is sponsored by BP, Walmart, and Koch Industries as “launch partners,” i.e., they own a large chunk of it.

Axios, in pursuit of its goals, is already nothing ordinary people should be getting their impressions of the world from. As its backers make sure it continues to worm its way into the daily conversation, what will it continue to evolve into?

[barbtries]

21. you give him too much credit.

he's more like 2.

he stopped growing emotionally years before he turned 13. hard to imagine how so much damage was done in such a short time. but he is infantile.

"Sir, I'm representing the Air Force" "I knew that"

aargh

[flakey_foont]

2. Just trolling?

Because that's what a President does

[elehhhhna]

3. He's a fucking terrorist and we are his targets

[bluestarone]

10. agree

100%

[RKP5637]

4. And then, somehow, this starts someplace ...

[Girard442]

5. Funny how that works. If we troll Trump like that we end up getting a visit from the Secret Service.

[George II]

7. I think many of us knew that, coming from the master troll. If he ever joined DU....

....MIRT would shit can him in a NY minute.

[SummerSnow]

8. he trolls the world and his brain is trolling him

[obamanut2012]

9. The Presidnet should not eb "trolling" ANYTONE

[Iliyah]

11. The boy who cried wolf.

[tanyev]

12. TOTUS.

[IronLionZion]

13. People claimed he was trolling us during the election too

and didn't expect the troll to actually win

This is no laughing matter asshole. Great use of the white house

[Maxheader]

16. Can the rightwingers..

come to grip with that? Can they understand
the potential for starting a war with a mental
case as commander in chief?

[RKP5637]

26. Many are likely like him, so it's doubtful. We have a lot of loons in the US! n/t

[Grammy23]

17. The press had already closed up for the night

When they were called back for that photo op. He did it on purpose just to get everyone riled up. He got them to change the subject, at least for a while. He is beneath despicable. Just when I think I can’t despise him any more and he pulls sh*t like that. He is manipulating all of us and sooner or later the American people will get a belly full of it. I think that day rapidly approaches. Will we rise up and demand that Congress act?

[Botany]

18. Trolling the press ansd the world about a war

He is a mad man.

[babylonsister]

20. Creating yet another distraction imo. nt

[mac56]

22. "Ha ha! Just kidding! What, can't you take a joke?!"

Isn't that what a bully says when you confront him?

[C_U_L8R]

23. In other words

We have a fucking moron of a President who is entirely full of shit. Yeah, we knew that.

[AtheistCrusader]

24. Change the presidential call sign to Able Archer 83 then.

Because holy shit.

[Dave Starsky]

27. "I have just declared a nuclear strike on North Korea."

"HA HA! Just shittin' ya!"

"OMG, look at your faces! HA HA HA HA HA!'

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. ......

https://m.

[moda253]

29. So let me get this straight....

NK has already made statements that they believe Donald Trump has declared war on them.... And late last night he says "this is the calm before the storm"..... "You'll see" While standing around with Military generals.

This fucknut hasn't a clue how dangerous he is. He is going to get a lot of people killed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. This entire fucking presidency, from Jan 2017 till the GOP comes to its senses (or 2019) is trolling

There is surely a good chance this will be know as "The Troll Presidency" in future years. Or being an obvious idiot with people supporting you just to fuck with their enemies will be known as "trumping".

[cilla4progress]

31. Sadist

this country is going to need a psych eval as to how he was elected.

[chowder66]

32. Asshole in Chief exposed that military leadership and wives finds threats funny. nt

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

33. Stay tuned, but now a brief word from our sponsors...

3 minutes pass...we're back!

It's just a freaking joke.


Jeez you guys are sooo serious.

Now on with the show........

[perdita9]

34. There is nothing funny about war

I have an eighteen year old kid. He's in college now. I don't want to see him have to put on a uniform and be shipped to a foreign country because Trump decided to do a comedy routine in the Oval Office.

[CakeGrrl]

35. Fucking incompetent jackass and administration

Totally unfit.

This is what happens when ignorant, racist, and/or xenophobic voters and a hostile foreign interest combine to put the person of their choice in office.

[Sunlei]

37. people never learn, the internet is full of fakers including the 'social media addicted Republican'