Welp. It looks like the President is in full on panic mode.
I guess Saturday Night Live got it right this time, with that hilarious opening skit of Sean Spicer speeding through the streets of New York.
The Huffington Post reports that Trump is considering major changes to his staff. We have all heard him criticizing his spokespeople, suggesting just the other day that he would like to discontinue his regular press briefings and just do them himself.
So it’s widely known that Sean Spicer is on thin ice.
But this new report indicates that Steve Bannon, Trump’s completely unqualified but super close advisor, is also on the outs and might get the boot.
The same is true for Reince Priebus, Trump’s Chief of Staff and a man who has barely been heard from for the past many weeks.
According to reports, Trump is increasingly angry, frustrated and distrustful of everyone. As the past week has shown, he has very little control over either his own actions or the fallout from those actions.
In firing former FBI Director James Comey, Trump at first tried to make it look like he was following the advice of the Attorney General and his Assistant. But when the fallout against the move began, he tried to flip the story and make the decision entirely his own.
The pushback against that very alarming and unpopular move has grown every hour since the firing. The press, the public and many members of Congress have reacted with a boatload of suspicion, to say the least.
So now there are a lot of people feeling the wrath of the Man in the Oval. Said one confidant,
“He’s frustrated, and angry at everyone. The advice he’s getting is to go big — that he has nothing to lose. The question now is how big and how bold. I’m not sure he knows the answer to that yet.”
Sources are reporting that as he loses confidence in his Cabinet and White House insiders, Trump is looking more and more to a mixture of outside sources and his own family.
As the country waits to see what will happen next in the continuing saga of White House dysfunction, its been interesting to hear the deafening silence from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Maybe they’ve been hiding in the bushes. Or maybe they’ve been behind the scenes, helping the President to plan the next steps in his huge staff shakeup. Maybe one of them will end up in charge of the FBI. Who knows?
And let’s not forget, folks. We are only four short months into this national nightmare.
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