Posted on 08/18/2017 8:38:39 AM PDT by Strac6
Former Speaker of the House and longtime Trump supporter Newt Gingrich is seriously worried about the future of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Gingrich, who has consistently been one of Trump’s most optimistic supporters, said Friday morning that Trump is more isolated than he realizes and needs to make “serious changes” if he’s going to have a stable presidency.
“I think he’s in a position right now where he’s much more isolated than he realizes,” Gingrich said in an interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer. “On the Hill, he has far more people willing to sit to one side and not help him right now, and I think that he needs to recognize that he’s taken a good first step with bringing in General Kelly, but he needs to think about what has not worked. You don’t get down to 35 percent approval and have people in your own party shooting at you and conclude that everything’s going fine.”
“How many times have we had this conversation? It was John McCain, Gold Star families and Access Hollywood. Is this week that much different than the numerous other situations?” Hemmer asked.
“It is only different in that you go through little ground, little ground, little ground, and after a while you have enough different people pull back that you are in a qualitatively different position and right now, that if he wants to get his agenda enacted that if he wants get things done and have a presidency that is stable, he is going to have to have a couple of serious changes,” Gingrich said.
“I think ‘The Art of the Comeback,’ which is a fascinating book that he wrote in 1997, is a really helpful reminder and he needs to think of what hasn’t been working and what he will do that is more effective in the rest of the presidency.”
You got it!
On one hand, you have nationalists like Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions. One of the low points in Trump's Presidency so is his poor relationship with Sessions, who is one of the best that we have. He'll be hard pressed to find a replacement AG who's serious about enforcing US immigration laws, so I'd like nothing more than to see them getting along again. Perhaps a gesture from Sessions defending Trump's stance on Confederate statues would be a step in the right direction. Surely as a conservative Southerner Sessions should appreciate the President standing up to the Left on this issue.
Another faction are foreign policy realists like General Mattis, Rex Tillerson, etc. They're more interventionist in foreign policy than Bannon and probably less conservative on cultural issues, but overall they can probably get along with the Right flank (it helps that people like McCain and Rubio opposed Tillerson).
Then you have two problematic factions in the White House. The first are the GOP establishmentarians (most visibly Reince Priebus, who is thankfully now gone), who have no desire to get along with the nationalist and who want Trump's Presidency to be a rubber stamp for Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
Last, you have Trump's own family: Ivanka and Jared. These are probably the most liberal voices whispering in his ear, and unfortunately the ones he's least likely to tell to shut up because they're family.
So while most of the President's troubles are due to a hostile media and political establishment, some of the inconsistencies and incoherence in his own stated positions on issues are due to there being too many contrary advisors pushing in opposite directions.
Understand. But if you can't deal with Congress then you should not be in that job. Trump is a deal-maker. He needs to unite the R's & RINOs, get the best deal he can get and move forward with his agenda instead of allowing himself to be isolated.
And then he fires Bannon to complete the show.
7D chess, man. 7D chess.
True, but the President, and the Presidency, need to get a handle on it.
Additionally, no more off-the-cuff remarks that are not staffed first. Do not hand the media the ammunition to shoot yourself.
Finally, one danger signal here is how relatively little the Dems are doing to attack. Yes, there is some of their typical BS, but by comparison, it’s rather low key, low volume. They feel the WH is creating enough of its own problems.
How about NOW, you arrogant shit?
Well, I see Brannon is out. I know how I interpret that. Another scalp for Antifa. Do Trump’s advisors believe this will placate the Rats? As for SCOTUS appointees if Trump is weakened they won’t be strong conservatives but “middle of the road” compromises. Which is exactly why Antifa is funded, organized, and encouraged by the Rats. Another score for the scoreboard while we quibble who will play first base.
If he’s “removed” from office will we then here how it’s all part of the plan? How he’s gonna better be able to MAGA as a private citizen?
Agreed. Bring in Newt.
I think it would be good at this point to bring Newt in to replace Bannon. Bannon went to the media to voice his views which I think undermines the administration.
Is Newt saying Trump is a mouse in a room full of hungry cats ?
Excellent. Newt was always the smartest idea guy in DC, but you never wanted to make him responsible for executing the idea.
The uniparty will not permit him to “come back.” And I don’t think his poll numbers are as low as the Democrat media is saying. Remember the election. Trump should run own poll numbers and have some town halls with supporters to see if they are unhappy - why.
His messaging has not been great enough to offset the constant bullying of the uniparty and their swamp.
I think he won this fight with the uniparty over Charletville Va. violence. The public knows the left is violent and I don’t imagine they like the history and cultural cleansing going on.
re: Polls. The only trustworthy one is the Real Clear Politics average.
Exactly right! An attack greatly magnified by the full support of our MSM and the international left who sense the opportunity for causing even greater disruption.
Our encouraging good news, "He is an outsider who can get things back on track.", is their terrifying bad news.
Their blatant rejection of Trump (for example, Corker, Graham, McCain) is, in essence, a clear message that they regard us of little or no importance. The outcome may very well depend on how the Rino's are treated while they visit their homes states.
This is how warnings are telegraphed in my opinion. Rinos are more scarier lately than the frigging Dems.
Newt is being Newt....
If Trump starts moving left there will be no hope for conservatives and it means the MSM & Marxist have won.
You NEVER EVER EVER help someone by shooting your mouth off in public talking negatively.
If Newt really was a sage and wanted to help right now, he’d clarify what Charlottesville truly was and respect Trump enough to simply back him as a true supporter would.
Newt is always concerned with looking wise first, and not giving a damn about how that impacts anyone else.
By implying Trump us in trouble, Newt betrays him here.
Newt is a first class jerk and reveals here why I never want him intimately involved on my side.
People are absolutely clueless how words can betray, even when they seem to voice a better path.
Newt, STHU.
Trump should just keep doing what he has been doing. Listening to his instincts and tell all to piss off. We didn’t vote for Newt, the Turtle, Eddie Munster, LoserMittens, Bubbleboy or the shrub family.
Maybe he should give Rudy, Chris and Joe a call to come on over and help him kick serious ass.
F the rinos, dems, media whores and Georgie.
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