President Trump vowed on Friday to order new security measures by next week intended to stop terrorists from entering the United States, even as aides debated whether to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate his original travel ban that has now been blocked by lower courts.I think I'm starting to understand why Trump has always had "multiple power centers" in his business and now in his White House: It's so he's never wrong, at least in his own mind. Consider what happened in this case. He wanted a bold step on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries, so he turned it over to ... his bomb-throwing team of experts, led by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. They kept their efforts secret even from others in the White House and generated a nasty piece of work that really rattled the cages of Trump's enemies. Trump's a genius! But the executive order was also a work of incompetence, so now that it's being rebuffed in court, Trump is thinking about following the advice of, presumably ... another group of expert subordinates, who are presumably telling him to give up on the original executive order and write another one. Having them around to counsel wisdom and due process shows (again) that Trump's a genius! And meanwhile he'll still defend the old executive order, or at least he's insisting he might, just in case you thought he wasn't a genius when he was listening to the experts whose work he's now planning to replace with the work of his other experts.
A day after a three-judge panel rebuffed him, Mr. Trump said he might sign “a brand new order” as early as Monday that would be aimed at accomplishing the same purpose but, presumably, with a stronger legal basis. While he vowed to keep fighting for the original order in court, he indicated that he would not wait for the process to play out to take action.
“We will win that battle,” he told reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Florida for a weekend golf outing with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. Yet noting that it most likely would not happen quickly, he also raised the possibility of “a lot of other options, including just filing a brand new order.”
Trump just can't stand being wrong, even though he's wrong most of the time. He has to be right -- his delicate ego demands it. Being able to play one group of top aides against others guarantees that he can always point to somebody on his team of the "best people" who hasn't been definitively proved wrong. Brilliant!
This would certainly seem to follow the format of his reality show. Next step is calling in both teams to fire someone.
ReplyDeleteOpen question is whether Trump can get anywhere close to fully staffed before he decides to start the purges.
Given the reports leaking out about how demoralized and exhausted the WH staff is already, only three weeks into his term, I'm wondering whether Trump will be able to attract new hires at all, beyond bottom of the barrel types so venial, ambitious and/or desperate they'll grab for the fool's gold anyway.
ReplyDeleteI can't understand why ANYONE would want to work for, under, or with (that's impossible) this psychopath.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering just how long it's going to take before he gets thrown out of office, impeached or does something so un-constitutional it's treasonous.
I certainly don't want to have our criminal government perpetuated, but Trump could easily become the modern day Hitler if all our cowardly members of Congress continue refuse to use the laws we have to control him. They are currently acting upon personal GREED and LUST FOR POWER. When the system finally, and soon, collapses due to debt (which they ALL continue to create) they won't have either
Glad I'm near the end of my lifespan. But I pity the very young who didn't have a choice about being brought into this world by adults who are too stupid to see what's coming.
He should write them on toilet paper and save us all a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, he's getting his sweet revenge through ICE house raids, lying to the public about the arrests and refusing to disclose the basis for the arrests. He's turning ICE into a thug squad and it will get violent. I still don't know WTF extreme vetting means. It's my suspicion that it means the vetting that exists now + religious and sexual orientation questions. I still haven't seen that "paper" people were asked to sign at airports. His ship with all its corrupt crew can't make like the Titanic fast enough.
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