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MineralMan

(146,351 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 11:44 AM Jan 2018

Wolff Is Evidence of Exactly How Clueless The Trump Administration Is

That Trump and others allowed a book-writer to have unfettered access to the West Wing and Trump staffers is almost unbelievable. What were they thinking? And nobody noticed that this writer was recording what everyone was saying? Really?

Even worse, Trump's staff was candid and forthright in comments about Trump and his complete incompetence at the job of President. They told everything to Wolff and his recording device. Ivanka disclosed the details of Trump's preternatural hairstyle. People called him a "child" and far worse.

"Just speak clearly and into this microphone," Wolff essentially said, and they did.

Only someone completely unfamiliar with Presidential politics and the rigors of that office could possibly have said the things that are reported in "Fire and Fury." The ignorance, naivete and childlike honesty recorded by Wolff is really unprecedented, and should have been absolutely impossible to acquire by a writer.

It's not just Trump, who apparently allowed Wolff to hang around and invite staff out for dinner. It's the entire lot of his staff. They're all idiots, from Steve Bannon to Trump's own daughter. It is a comedy of juvenile error, this book.

It should bring the Administration down. If it does not, I will be very surprised.

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Wolff Is Evidence of Exactly How Clueless The Trump Administration Is (Original Post) MineralMan Jan 2018 OP
Putin must be saying: "Now why didn't I think of that?!" nt Xipe Totec Jan 2018 #1
For some reason, the press, the R's, the Dotard... yallerdawg Jan 2018 #2
Never mind. The book will speak for itself. MineralMan Jan 2018 #3
A degree of arrogance is evident also packman Jan 2018 #4
Arrogance and Cynicism. MineralMan Jan 2018 #5
I've wondered about this, too... First Speaker Jan 2018 #6
It would seem unbelievable, but it actually happened. MineralMan Jan 2018 #7
Imagine what our foreign enemies are making of this RandomAccess Jan 2018 #8
Actually, I'm more concerned with how our allies are MineralMan Jan 2018 #9

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. For some reason, the press, the R's, the Dotard...
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 11:52 AM
Jan 2018

all suggest Wolff's record as a "journalist" is suspect.

Wolff pointed out that is news to him - he has never had to issue a correction yet!

MineralMan

(146,351 posts)
3. Never mind. The book will speak for itself.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 11:54 AM
Jan 2018

I expect the recordings to also be published to go along with the book. There's money to be made in those, as well.

This is all a waterfall of unknown size, but it looks to me like Niagara, at least.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
4. A degree of arrogance is evident also
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 12:06 PM
Jan 2018

Remember, this is a man who boasted about killing someone on the streets of NY and nothing would be done and how he could, with impunity, treat people as objects just because he was - well, who he was . The Greeks had a word for it "hubris" - the sin of excessive pride or self-confidence . Those around the Trump must have felt insulated and immune from anything that could come back and bite them in the ass.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
6. I've wondered about this, too...
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 12:12 PM
Jan 2018

...it just seems almost a berserker-level act of stupidity. Just casually "inviting" a journalist to hang around the White House? On the basis of a casual acquaintanceship? I've been making jokes for a long time, comparing Trump to Rufus T Firefly...but this really and truly sounds like something out of a Marx Brothers film. As Charles Pierce said: this is Duck Soup, as directed by Quentin Tarantino...

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
8. Imagine what our foreign enemies are making of this
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 12:46 PM
Jan 2018

Probably crafting plans to infiltrate the White House as we speak.

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