White House much relieved at mass shooting timeout
The slaughter of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas school was a welcome relief to people at the White House, because it took the heat off them for a change. They’d been having a baaaaaad week until then. Whew! Thanks, 17 dead people!
One White House official said the shooting forced the White House to focus on critical and serious issues — like consoling the victims and trying to heal the nation — rather than getting bogged down in what they view as more trivial West Wing drama.
“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”
The official likened the brief political calm to the aftermath of the October shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds more injured. That tragedy united White House aides and the country in their shared mourning for the victims and their families.
“But as we all know, sadly, when the coverage dies down a little bit, we’ll be back through the chaos,” the official said.
Awww. That is sad. Poor White House aides. If only there could be a mass shooting every other day.
The three-day Presidents’ Day weekend added to the hiatus, with Trump traveling to his private Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., with only a few aides and giving others on his beleaguered staff a chance to rest and recuperate.
Among those accompanying the president was Kelly, who earlier in the week appeared in serious jeopardy of losing his job. The chief of staff had lost the support of some senior aides, and last Tuesday evening rumors were rampant that his days — or even hours — were numbered because Trump had been sounding out friends and advisers about possible replacements.
Wednesday’s shooting, however, effectively stabilized Kelly’s standing internally, officials said, shifting the media glare away from him and giving the retired four-star Marine general a chance to perform his job in helping to coordinate the federal response.
So that sure turned out well for Kelly, didn’t it! What a stroke of luck.
“The national tragedy in Florida has really, for now, turned the page on some of these crises,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist close to the White House. “They’re going to come back, but what it does do is give the White House a chance to collect itself and, if they can, organize a communications strategy and get their ducks in a row.”
Yay! Thanks, Nikolas Cruze. What a good citizen.
Are these people really monsters, or do they just play monsters on TV? I never heard anything so horrible!
Anyone who thinks this is an improvement over how Obama would have handled it, raise your hand. I’m waiting…yeah, I’ll wait over here in case any hands go up.
Rabid NRA types claim Sandy Hook was an Obama hoax or “false flag” operation take take away their precious surrogate penises. The White House staff talking about the latest school shooting in this way will make people wonder if somebody working for Trump helped organize it. Not that I believe they would or could do such a thing, but talk like this makes it sound a whole lot more likely to have been the case than any of the NRA conspiracy fever dreams about Obama.
They really are horrible, horrible people. Not only do they betray confidences and turn on each other (for which we can be sort of thankful for insight into and confirmation of Trump’s eternal, voluminous shallowness and inadequacy. Not that such basic confirmation was necessary any more, but, more details for the docket. Whatever.). It’s horrible all the way down. They are like collaborators with a hostile occupying power, which, given the as yet unknown extent of Russian influence and control over Trump, they very well could literally turn out to be. Trump has certainly picked or attracted his kind of staff.
So a successful attack on a certain Florida sea side residence whilst it’s undeservedly famous occupant is at home would provide the Whitehouse staff a really welcome holiday.
“. . . giving others on his beleaguered staff a chance to rest and recuperate.” This is ridiculous. What are we supposed to understand from this – that his poor staff is just so dang wore out. . . They are beleaguered hence unable to operate as individual humans with agency? If the job stinks and you are surrounded by endless crap, you don’t need to rest and recuperate. You need to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Either quit or reveal all and help get that monster out of the White House.
No sympathy for the staff. . . they accepted, perhaps eagerly, their positions at the big nursery school on Capital Hill.
#3 false false flag flagged
More likely to burst a vessel ****ting on his golden throne in the weewee hours.
But that would be like put-in the whole world in sus-pence.
Where oh where are the drains. Bring in Root-a-Rooto. (Route-a-Rat?)