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 ...
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.
“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.
I guess the first book didn’t work.
This is all they gots folks. They have been trumped.
Does this one also have a disclaimer that all the contents may not be true....
ONE way to beat a law suit for slander...
So much Leftist B. S.
So little time...
That’s so funny. Thanks for the laugh!
LOL!
meh
It’s House Kurtz
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.
It did work; but Venezuela still needs some more toilet paper.
This is interesting...The book is being published by Regnery, which is owned by the Salem Media Group.
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.
Great Conservative Books. Great Conservative Authors
Well, somebody's BSing. It'll be interesting to see who.
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”
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