This isn't the kind of dazzle most of us had in mind.
I really doubt you speak for MOST of us....
This isn't the kind of dazzle most of us had in mind.
Speak for yourself. You got a frog in your pocket?
As always, whenever a little rough spot appears, the hand-wringing crowd has another opportunity to indulge their Trump-bashing impulses.
The DC Swamp-dwellers aren't the only thing that gets exposed at times like this. As if on cue, the "Trump's not a good manager" comments start.
Donald Trump remains the same personality he has always been—that's not going to change, and, just as Mooch said, we shouldn't want it to.
The President is doing fine. So is Mooch. Since his excessive language was counterproductive, I have no doubt that he will tone it down—a tiny bit—to appease the Nervous Nellies.
Given the leaks and treachery afoot, this phase has to occur; the wheat will once again be separated from the chaff—and not just at the White House, apparently.
What we're observing is bare-knuckle politics, nothing more. If anyone thinks this kind of rhetoric is qualitatively different than the what flew around 200 years ago, they need to take a deep breath and calm down themselves.
It's enough to make one wince sometimes, but, in the long run, it will accomplish its purpose, and ultimately be quite healthy.
Some may decry the coarseness of the language being used, but such language is par for the course—both for these subordinates and for the President himself. And it's never going to conform to the whims of the "Church Lady" crowd.
So if this "inside baseball" is enough to alienate any of Trump's base, then they'll either drift back eventually, or else they can vote for someone else in 2020. Because Trump isn't going to change, and I, for one, don't want him to...