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‘Defiance Disorder’: Another new book describes chaos in Trump’s White House
The Washington Post ^ | Jan. 21, 2018 | Ashley Parker

Posted on 01/21/2018 10:29:19 PM PST by Hadean

In late July, the White House had just finished an official policy review on transgender individuals serving in the military and President Trump and his then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus, had agreed to meet in the Oval Office to discuss the four options awaiting the president in a decision memo.

But then Trump unexpectedly preempted the conversation and sent his entire administration scrambling, by tweeting out his own decision — that the government would not allow transgender individuals to serve — just moments later.

“ ‘Oh my God, he just tweeted this,’ ” Priebus said, according to a new book by Howard Kurtz, who hosts Fox News’s “Media Buzz.” There was, Kurtz writes, “no longer a need for the meeting.”

The White House — and the politerati diaspora — has just barely stopped reeling from author Michael Wolff’s account of life in Trump’s West Wing, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” and now another life-in-the-White-House book is about to drop, this one from Kurtz.

Like the books that came before it, and almost certainly like the ones still to come, Kurtz’s book, “Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth,” offers a portrait of a White House riven by chaos, with aides scrambling to respond to the president’s impulses and writing policy to fit his tweets, according to excerpts obtained by The Washington Post.

Kurtz, who worked at The Post from 1981 to 2010, writes that Trump’s aides even privately coined a term for Trump’s behavior — “Defiance Disorder.” The phrase refers to Trump’s seeming compulsion to do whatever it is his advisers are most strongly urging against, leaving his team to handle the fallout.

The book officially hits stores Jan. 29.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bookreview; kurtz
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1 posted on 01/21/2018 10:29:19 PM PST by Hadean
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To: Hadean

LOL - the disorder is why the SPYING on Trump was useless. All they heard was confusion and white noise - when they were trying to figure out his ‘secret master strategy’...since he didn’t have one...he only had his public words, promises that he’s doing everything possible to keep - despite being hated by just about everyone in DC.


2 posted on 01/21/2018 10:36:19 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Hadean

“offers a portrait of a White House riven by chaos, with aides scrambling to respond to the president’s impulses and writing policy to fit his tweets, according to excerpts obtained by The Washington Post.”

The problem with previous Presidents is that it was the President’s role to make the White House Staff’s jobs easier; not the other way around.


3 posted on 01/21/2018 10:39:22 PM PST by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: Hadean

I guess the first book didn’t work.


4 posted on 01/21/2018 10:40:20 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Hadean
[by tweeting out his own decision — that the government would not allow transgender individuals to serve — just moments later.

“ ‘Oh my God, he just tweeted this,’ ” Priebus said]

Anyone surprised by Preibus' response raise you hand. I imagine the issue is very dear to him.
5 posted on 01/21/2018 10:44:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hadean

This is all they gots folks. They have been trumped.


6 posted on 01/21/2018 10:50:49 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Hadean

Does this one also have a disclaimer that all the contents may not be true....

ONE way to beat a law suit for slander...


7 posted on 01/21/2018 11:11:16 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""In todays world:::WE, THE USofA are Rudyard Kiplings 'Tommy'")
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To: Hadean

So much Leftist B. S.

So little time...


8 posted on 01/21/2018 11:13:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (a/o 01/17/18 DJIA close 26,115.65, 45.993% > the morning of 11/07/16. 716.77 to 50% increase..)
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9 posted on 01/21/2018 11:31:33 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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That’s so funny. Thanks for the laugh!


10 posted on 01/21/2018 11:33:10 PM PST by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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11 posted on 01/21/2018 11:35:18 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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To: Hadean

Trump’s favorite TV channel...The Gorilla Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXiaXnAtZrA


12 posted on 01/21/2018 11:38:34 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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LOL!


13 posted on 01/22/2018 12:04:04 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Hadean

meh

It’s House Kurtz


14 posted on 01/22/2018 2:10:58 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: BobL
trying to figure out his ‘secret master strategy’

I knew a guy who ran open conspiracies against the powers that be like this. He was extremely effective at building coalitions to do what he told everyone he was going to do and then doing what he said he was going to do. No one could understand who was letting him get away with this.

15 posted on 01/22/2018 4:10:24 AM PST by AndyJackson
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"I guess the first book didn’t work."

It did work; but Venezuela still needs some more toilet paper.

16 posted on 01/22/2018 4:40:27 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Hadean

This is interesting...The book is being published by Regnery, which is owned by the Salem Media Group.


17 posted on 01/22/2018 4:48:09 AM PST by mewzilla
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Just checked out where Regnery’s CEO send his political contributions. Unipartiers for the most part. This is all about Never Trump.

Pity. I’ve got a lot of books published by Regnery.


18 posted on 01/22/2018 4:52:45 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Hadean
Check out this synopsis from Regnery, reads like a different book than the one the comPost is describing...

Great Conservative Books. Great Conservative Authors

Well, somebody's BSing. It'll be interesting to see who.

19 posted on 01/22/2018 4:57:36 AM PST by mewzilla
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Sleazebag Howard Kurtz worked at The Post from 1981 to 2010.

New book by Kurtz, who hosts Fox News’s “Media Buzz.”

Kurtz’s book, “Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth”


20 posted on 01/22/2018 5:02:43 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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