Posted on 01/23/2017 8:48:56 AM PST by usafa92
WASHINGTON President Trumps first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually giving way to attempts at damage control.
The problem is that what works on the way to the White House does not always work once a candidate gets there.
To the extent that there was a plan to take advantage of the first days of his administration, when a president is usually at his maximum leverage, Mr. Trump threw it aside with a decision to lash out about crowd sizes at his swearing in and to rewrite the history of his dealings with intelligence agencies.
The lack of discipline troubled even senior members of Mr. Trumps circle, some of whom had urged him not to indulge his simmering resentment at what he saw as unfair news coverage. Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back. By the end of the weekend, he and his team were scrambling to get back on script.
Gee, I must be clairvoyant. I coulda written this for NYT months ago.
We need to know what they’re doing/saying/writing. You don’t ignore the enemy just because you don’t like what they’re saying. Mein Kampf was banned in Boston and not read pretty much anywhere outside Germany. If it had been, the world at that time would have realized what Hitler was up to. You have to know the enemy in order to defeat it.
Evidently Thrush is still sending his stories to John Podesta for approval.
So, according to the NYT, Trump has already failed and will be moving out of the White House tomorrow afternoon.
I think that the Left feels that Trump will resign or leave office if they keep this up.
I know, I gave my Facebook peeps until after the Inauguration. But now, I’m unfriending left and right .... and it’s getting worse.
Only CNN or the Slimes or Compost or their lackies could piss on Trump’s fast start.
I don’t see why people post the Slimes and Compost here. We know they are all in against Trump. “Know thy enemy” is good, but we already know them. What is the point of posting Slimes articles here and giving them the hit. I don’t get it.
Lets boycott the Slimes and the Compost here.
haha..you can tell how well Trump is doing by how pissed off the media is. He’s doing FANTASTIC!!
I thought the on-line Times was free.
It’s free for the 1st 10 articles. A limit which you can work-around by periodically flushing the NYTimes cookies from your browser.
Fake news never stops
I think it was a mistake to engage in a pissing match with the press over which inauguration had more people. Trump would do well to let his actions speak for him.
I think it was a mistake to engage in a pissing match with the press over which inauguration had more people. Trump would do well to let his actions speak for him.
Turning the other cheek didn’t work out so well for Geo. Bush.
Hit the MSM back. Every. Time.
That’s right NY Slimes, keep focusing your eyes on, and stressing, the trivial while the Trump team enacts the substantive. My goodness the media still doesn’t get it.
I agree. I actually regret engaging some of my loony left friends and family on facebook years back. Of course they defriended me after they couldn’t face the reality of my rebuttals and responses.
Looking bad, I should have just remained a spectator to their insanity and kept the enemy in my sites.
Results from the Trump staff. Reality folks:
Trump was not kidding when he said he will blow ISIS into bits and pieces. Trump’s new SOD General Mattis wasted no time and destroyed 31 ISIS targets his first day. Mattis is the perfect man to eliminate ISIS. Daily Caller reported: Newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis celebrated his first full day at the Pentagon by overseeing 31 strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Mattis entered the Pentagon Saturday with a smile for his first full day of work, and for good reason, considering the significant bombardment ISIS forces received. A variety of fighters, bombers and remotely piloted aircraft engaged in the bombing run, which saw 25 strikes in Syria and six in Iraq. In Syria, two strikes destroyed ISIS units and artillery near the town of Bab. ISIS forces in Raqqa, the terrorist groups de facto capital, took a heavy beating, as 22 strikes destroyed 12 tactical units, nine fighting positions, two underground improvised explosive bomb factories and an ISIS headquarters. The final strike targeted two ISIS oil wells in Deir ez Zour.
These fake news memes of “disarray”, “incompetence”, “chaos” have a shelf-life of only a couple more hours; once President Trump starts signing a blizzard of EOs reversing obammunism, the fake stream media will be exploding with outrage that the Trump Administration is NOT in complete disarray, incompetent or chaotic, but is actually effectively and efficiently erasing Obama’s “legacy”.
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