Because he keeps running his mouth
Even Trump’s own people are calling him names now, at least according to the Daily Beast.
The administration officials and West Wing aides who were left grounded stateside on Friday late afternoon couldn’t do much more than dodge questions and vent inflamed frustrations at their boss.
Were they thinking he’s better than this? That doesn’t seem very bright either.
“Trump himself hasn’t been implicated in any of these leaks except where he’s implicated himself, where he says something that makes his perhaps less-than-sterling intentions clear,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the controversy candidly. “He keeps saying there’s no collusion, and I think he’s right. So if he would just shut his trap, what would Dems have?”
“Okay, he fired Comey,” the official conceded. “With a semi-competent comms operation, that would blow over in 24 hours. And that’s the worst part: he has a competent comms staff. But they can’t do their jobs because he keeps running his mouth.”
Doesn’t he just. But is that really a surprise?
Trump’s repeated media missteps have frustrated even longtime supporters. “Every day he looks more and more like a complete moron,” said one senior administration official who also worked on Trump’s campaign. “I can’t see Trump resigning or even being impeached, but at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign.”
He seemed to have a brain during the campaign? Not that I saw.
Asked whether an administration staff change-up would ameliorate this latest crisis, a Republican source formerly involved with a pro-Trump political group told The Daily Beast, “yes, if it comes with a frontal lobotomy for Trump.”
And Trump has the nuclear codes.
I think he’s being exactly what he sold himself as on campaign
“… at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign.”
So his staff recognize that he didn’t have a brain prior to the presidency. Even the most charitable reading of this is that he played a role during the campaign that he is unwilling to or incapable of living up to. And this reading relies on the assumption that DJT is a human being that operates similarly to the rest of us. And that’s where we hit the wall: we’ve never seen his kind before, certainly at this level of influence. He is what he is, no more: a man with the highest legal position in our country who is completely unmoored from the reality (and logical framework) that most of us live by. He should be a target of ridicule and derision, but maybe, possibly, he’ll turn “presidential” and we can talk about “Trump Doctrines” (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/trump-doctrine-middle-east.html?ref=opinion) and other high-minded ideals that the man himself is incapable of comprehending. Give the man some chicken nuggets and clear away the sharp objects.