'I've never seen him like this before' W.H. sources say Cohen raid ignited Trump's "untethered rage"

[Botany]

Source: Alter Net/Raw Story

President Donald Trump is having an outright meltdown in the West Wing of the White House in real time and sources told Axios' Mike Allen he's losing it.

Friends and close associates to the president told Allen that Trump and his allies are acting out a full cataclysm in real time. When speaking to the press and on Twitter Monday, Trump claimed that the country was under attack. However, the reality is that he personally is under attack for legal problems. Like a rogue box of lighted fireworks, Trump is reportedly going off in every direction.

"Mueller's investigation has been drip, drip," one source began. "This was a giant leap forward ... a personal hit. ... They were moving in inches. Today, they moved a mile."

This also marks the first time Trump is having a crisis since his close advisor Hope Hicks has left the White House. Hicks was known for calming Trump down and keeping things ordered amid the chaos. In her absence, Americans witnessed the president dealing with his emotional collapse in real time.

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/trump-trauma/ive-never-seen-him-white-house-sources-say-cohen-raid-ignited-trumps-untethered-rage

[SummerSnow]

1. "untethered rage"...If I was a WH aide this would be the title of my book

[Bromwell]

2. I would go with "Raging Buffoon:....but that's just me : )

[WhiteTara]

9. How about "untethered raging buffoon"

Welcome to DU!

[Moostache]

27. Great sequel idea for Scorsese!!!

He is due for a once-in-a-decade masterpiece ('80 Raging Bull / '90 Goodfellas / '02 Gangs of New York / '11 Hugo) ....what better than a spiritual follow up to Raging Bull?

Raging Baboon or Raging Buffoon?

I am torn...

[LiberalFighter]

76. Wouldn't that be great if he made a movie now before DT leaves?

Preferably before November.

[meadowlander]

88. Raging Bullshit?

[Roy Rolling]

94. Thinking the same thing

I don't have a clever title, but I've seen this plot before. It's called "Titanic".

Only in this version, the Trump family commandeers a lifeboat at gunpoint and sails *away* from land into the vast open ocean and certain death. You know, a happy ending.

[Nitram]

50. I like "Untethered Rage" as a title, but it makes Trump sound too dramatic. Buffoon fits the bill.

[SummerSnow]

53. Then we can combine our books...

'Raging Bafoon with Untethered Rage'

[FakeNoose]

47. It's a nuclear meltdown

[flibbitygiblets]

48. Mine would be "Trumpster Fire"

[Nitram]

51. I'll go for "Dump's Diarrhea"

[LiberalFighter]

77. If it was a movie...

good thing smell is not part of the experience.

[Nitram]

86. No, we don't want a "Scratch'n'Sniff" with this one...

Did you know that the John Waters' movie "Polyester" had a scratch and sniff pad with 10 different smells and a signal in the movie when to scratch it and sniff each one? They were: 1. Roses, 2. Flatulence, 3. Model Airplane Glue, 4. Pizza, 5. Gasoline, 6. Skunk, 7. Natural Gas, 8. New Car Smell, 9. Dirty Shoes, and 10. Air Freshener We had a friend who knew Waters and had attended the opening of the movie in Baltimore. She lent us her pad so we could have the full experience when wee watched it.

[LuvLoogie]

58. How about "Ass Mouth"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Trump firing any cabinet officer who is not a "yes man". Staving off the 25th Amendment. . . . nt

[cilla4progress]

4. Someone some day's GOT

to leak a video!

[Liberalhammer]

5. Send in the wheelbarrow full of

McDonald's cheeseburgers!

[forgotmylogin]

6. "We cut to a live feed of the Oval Office renovation taking place as we speak..."

[Flaleftist]

39. lol

🤣

[LiberalFighter]

78. But that gorilla at least knows what he is doing.

[AllyCat]

95. Hah!!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Temperament

of antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder

[BigmanPigman]

87. Yep, someone get a large supply of Xanax.

The US citizens will benefit from him using it.

[CatMor]

8. Will he ever start acting like a adult....

or will he always be a child with temper tantrums. What is he worried about, he has told us he's done nothing wrong. If i was innocent I wouldn't be worried about anything.

[PunksMom]

80. Hell never start acting like an adult

no one expects it of him, and they don’t hold him accountable for anything. What a joke of an administration this is.

[CatMor]

84. So true....

the Republicons don't care about our country, all they cared about was tax cuts for the wealthy. They will support this buffoon as long as he signs what they want.

[PunksMom]

85. Exactly

I hope they all answer for this poor decision to defend the crook.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Spitler.

I wish someone would turn on a cameraphone at his next tantrum.

[Botany]

11. If you can stomach it ... the raid on Cohen's office was because of Hillary's crimes

[SonofDonald]

38. But we are looking at

"What took place and what happened"

You buffoon.

[ginnyinWI]

73. Doesn't he look just like a guy in some ward

in a mental institution, ranting incoherently? He's sitting with his arms as though in a straight jacket.

[Siwsan]

40. Didn't he ban all personal communication devices from the White House?

As I recall, it was in an obviously futile attempt to stop the leaks.

[hatrack]

12. "Raging Bullshit" - a Martin Scorsese Film

[Moostache]

29. I missed this one before replying above...

I am still torn between "Raging Baboon" and "Raging Buffoon"...LOL

[nmgaucho]

45. Raging "Shitgibbon"

[Moostache]

81. Internet won. (n/t)

[Toorich]

13. Wait a minute....

Mike Cohen? I couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
Oh yeah, he did some small-claims court cases years ago, collecting past due rents
from deadbeat tenants, that's all.
He was just doing small claims and running to the corner to get coffee and sandwiches.

[grantcart]

35. The "donut guy "

[flibbitygiblets]

56. Covfefe boy perhaps?

[LiberalLovinLug]

74. lol

[NurseJackie]

82. Oh, that's brilliant!

Love it!!

[lastlib]

57. must be the donut guy--he's already got a coffee boy.......

[The Genealogist]

14. I'm sure there is untethered rage in the WH all day

I'm guessing it is the standard response to everything from failure of covfefe boys to pay him perfect homage to the tartar sauce being off center on his filet-o-fish.

[BeyondGeography]

15. They say that every time he gets mad

And he's always unvarnished and untethered.

[HuskyOffset]

34. With the orange hue

I would have guessed he was varnished.

[Delphinus]

49. Good one!

[ChazInAz]

60. Amber shellac.

[Dave Starsky]

16. "Losing it"? Did he ever have it?

Unfettered rage is pretty much his baseline.

[BlueJac]

17. he he he

[onit2day]

18. Just look at what your saying. We are dealing with a spoiled brat's tantrum

[azureblue]

19. Let him rage

the more Donnie rages, the more he will say and do things to incriminate himself.

[ailsagirl]

20. Though the mills of the gods grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding fine

[MFM008]

21. Apoplectic rage

Is good for your arteries.....

[NastyRiffraff]

64. Speaking of arteries

Hey Donnie! Have another Big Mac and two scoops to go along with your apoplectic rage. Wash it down with a few Diet Cokes.

[MFM008]

91. Can you deep fry

A big mac??

[notdarkyet]

22. How I feel:

I used to have a happy bunny t-shirt that said. “your anger makes me happy “
That’s how I feel about trump melting down.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. He is a walking Mental Heath textbook, for real.

So much projection. "Trump claimed that the country was under attack. However, the reality is that he personally is under attack"

all the names he calls other people are manifestations of his own feelings and thoughts. Loser, crooked, "little", etc.

[Botany]

25. Please call your senators and congress critters (especially republicans) and tell them that ....

.... you demand that Bob Mueller be protected. Ask two friends to do the same.

[True Blue American]

24. Mueller just

Gave himself Insurance. Even if Trump fires Mueller this case will go forward.

Rosenstein is the one who decided to turn this case over to the District Judge.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/geoffrey-berman-trump_us_5acc09dce4b0337ad1eb041c

[mpcamb]

26. Poke him in the eye again. In fact, do it daily.

[Grammy23]

28. At least we know what pushes his buttons.

Anything or anyone who fails to be 100% obedient to him and his needs is dead to him. His emotional development is so stunted in childhood (infancy) that it is almost breath taking. And yet family, friends and close staff members know this and have probably kept some of this out of the public spotlight by “managing him” to give the illusion he is okay. But given the depths of his pathology makes it all the more stunning that he has lasted this long without a public display of his wrath like we witnessed yesterday.

To complete the meltdown and mental break, thus facilitating his removal, the pressure needs to be kept up nonstop, night and day. The hits from Mueller and anyone else with the power to do so need to Keep the hits coming to send tRumpolini over the edge. It is just a matter of time before he is unfit to appear in public. I dare — double dog dare — Ryan and those in position to rid us of this menace to stand by and do nothing in that case.

[True Blue American]

30. Both Cornyn and Grassley warned

Trump not to fire Mueller. These guys are not going down with the Trump ship.

[sheshe2]

31. Fit him for that straightjacket...STAT!

[Iliyah]

32. Twitter has.

Either these people in the WH are the 3 monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) OR, they are just as dumb as t-rump's supporters.

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. This is a glimpse of a madman.

This is not someone whose delicate sensibilities about the Constitution have been poked. No innocent person, no matter how invested in the concept of civil rights, would act like this description.

[workinclasszero]

36. Enraged toddler throwing poo in the White House

Sure would be nice if the adults would start doing their jobs in this country.

[niyad]

37. is there anything that DOESN'T set him off?

[SonofDonald]

41. He's not happy

And it makes me smile, all day in fact!

[smirkymonkey]

79. Same here. The below Lily Allen song has been running through my head

since yesterday...

[Farmer-Rick]

42. Sooo, how long before he starts talking to the pictures on the wall?

Or more likely putting his fist through the pictures.

[Sugar Smack]

43. Again?? It doesn't count until someone turns burgundy & topples over.

Huh-uh. I know. It's easy for me to say; I'm not paid to suffer what's-his-fuck's "rogue box of lighted fireworks" routine.

[Gothmog]

44. Trump is unfit to be POTUS

[duforsure]

46. He's scared of what's coming

Because he probably is well aware of things Cohen has in his offices, and trump knows they'll find out most of it all, if they didn't already know before. That's why trumps a freaking out on everyone now. It'll incriminate a bunch of them too. Got to get more popcorn and refreshments. This is getting good. Trump's rant was his Nixons I'm not a crook speech.

[FakeNoose]

90. Well how stupid can Michael Cohen be?

If he has all that incriminating evidence right there at his office, he deserves to go down. At least Manafort was smart enough to put his stuff into storage lockers under another person's name. It took Mueller awhile to track down the cartons, but he has them all now. Cohen didn't even try to hide his documents. He probably assumes he'll get a presidential pardon.

[Oneironaut]

52. Trumps body language in that press conference was amazing.

I don’t think he could have crossed his arms any tighter. He appeared to be totally flustered, as if he was ready to fly into a rage any second.

[SummerSnow]

55. He was trying to control his emotions during that presser. I bet when

all of the journalist left he went off

[ailsagirl]

66. He was nearly unintelligible and was just rambling on and on

And was all scrunched up with his arms wrapped around himself as if to give himself courage

He's falling apart, it would seem

[Paladin]

67. Compared to trump, Nixon looked relaxed and at ease at the debate with JFK. (nt)

[NewJeffCT]

71. the guy reeks of "consciousness of guilt"

doesn't have the discipline to hide it

[YessirAtsaFact]

54. The deluge of criminal evidence that Mueller is going to present is mind boggling

I wonder if all the real estate negotiations about the Moscow Trump tower were just cover for money laundering planning, etc and other crimes

[klook]

68. It has to be.

There have to be five Cat-5 hurricanes of irrefutable, damning evidence before the Republicans will lift a finger to stop Trump. I just hope Pence gets ensnared in this, too.

From what I've seen and read, money laundering through inflated real estate sale prices has been common practice in Trump's shoddy empire.

[YessirAtsaFact]

72. It looks like Cohen was laundering money with taxi businesses

I suspect Trump’s real business has been money laundering for a long time

[NCjack]

59. We await the Hilter-speak reenactment of the melt down. nt

[red dog 1]

61. K&R

I love it!

[Sancho]

62. Is this a plan to cause a coronary?

[klook]

69. Best-case scenario for the Republicans.

Then the Koch Bros. get Pence without alienating the base, Republican legislators get off the hook without having to defend Trump in an impeachment proceeding, and the deplorables can worship their fallen hero.

[noneof_theabove]

63. Kind of reminds me of

How my dog starts barking at the sound of fireworks.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

65. What's the point?

Oh shit he's madder than hell. Never seen him like this. Everyone stop making him angry. Yawn.
Isn't he the "Let it burn." chaos guy? Chaos is good, unless it effects you eh dt?

[Cary]

70. Like Hitler

[world wide wally]

75. Spanky Unchained

[LudwigPastorius]

83. He'll lob some Tomahawks into Syria (doesn't matter where) and feel better in the morning.

Personally, I'm hoping he goes ahead and fires Rosenstein, and then, by proxy, Mueller.

This shit needs to be played out...the sooner, the better for the country.

[Cha]

89. Aww.. widdle bitty pervert got

a mad? lol

[D23MIURG23]

92. Quick, someone get him a bag of chips, some coffee and a couple lines of blow!!

[amcgrath]

93. This would be a good time to wish Donald Trump well

A stroke or heart attack now, could well get the Republican Party off the hook for some of the utter mayhem, lawlessness and destruction that this utter turd of a president has foisted on the country.

They were completely aware of what a total piece of shit he was, of how utterly incompetent and incapable he was, but they backed him.

In office they have watched him make a total disaster of things and said nothing, even now despite months of journalists suggesting that congress should take action to prevent the firing of Mueller, they have just trotted out their pathetic comments about 'not thinking it necessary'

The GOP have treated the constitution, and the citizens of the USA nothing but contempt. They do not deserve to be in office - not one of them. In the face of "clear and present danger" they have sat back and cheered for a tax cut that will enrich them and their donors.

Vote every single one out of office.

[Agz3rd0377]

96. Strategy

It seems to me in my opinion that the president is unhinged. He has forgotten his principle on the secrecy of military strategy that he has preached since campaign and into his presidency. He is revealing what he will do militarily to Russia and Syria.

[radical noodle]

98. He is giving his buddy Putin

a heads-up.

Welcome to DU!

[mudstump]

97. Trump's own hubris is going to bite him...

in the butt. Everything and everyone he touches turns to shit.

[apnu]

99. Of course he's not happy, Cohen's been his boy for years.

Cohen's been a good soldier and fixer for all of Trump's wanderings. He's the #1 bag man, Cohen knows where all the skeletons are and who put them there.

The sad thing is, Trump thinks he's been slick with all this. He's high on his own ass vapors.