This published piece simultaneously makes me laugh and makes me furious. It is supposedly written by a high-level staff member of the Trump Administration. If this person actually exists, they are a NEVER-TRUMP RINO who reveres John McCain as the shining example of what a politician should be.
President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.
It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.
(Note: The writer says “his party” but it’s clear this person is trying to represent themselves as a republican. Not being able to keep their voice straight seems to indicate that this is the work of a lefty who does not work in the Trump administration.)
The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
I would know. I am one of them.
To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.
(So what’s the problem?)
But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.
(But we’re safer and more prosperous.)
The root of the problem is the president’s amorality.
(((((((((((( yawnnnnnnnnnnnn ))))))))))
Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright.
(Where? When? How?)
Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.
But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
(So what’s the problem?)
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
“There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier.
(No examples are given.)
It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.
(Again, no examples of what the heroes did to save America.)
Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations.
(Pure crap.)
On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.
(Giant pile of pure crap.)
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president.
(Okay, who wrote this? I have it narrowed down to William Kristol, David Frum, Erick Erickson, Ben Howe, David Brock, Kevin Williamson, Evan McMuffin, Robert Reich or Paul Krugman.)
The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.
(You mean like if I tell you to roll up this essay and insert it into your Obama garage? That kind of incivility?)
Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell letter.
(BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Stop right there.)
There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle ..
(Man, I warned you to stop. Now I have to pee from laughing so hard.)
ht/js
Could this be a psyop from one of the editors?
Was reading through the comments, the libs and rinos were giddy over the idea of the 25 amendment. (In there fever dreams.)
Likely and Obummer holdover in the Department of Justice.
This stretches credulity until it snaps.
Likely if this person exists at all its a minor player that hasn’t been weeded out yet.
So how come Obama, one of the most ineffectual Presidents we have had, failed? Where were the secret Guardians of the Realm then? Apparently Trump is undertaking counter-productive actions which our secret Guardians are preventing, so why was it so hard for these people to succeed under Obama who essentially did nothing either productive or counter-productive?
Who writes Trump’s speeches? And why are the promises in Trump’s speeches largely fulfilled? Do the Secret Guardians ghost write Trump’s stuff, convince him to say these things, and them make them come true? And why do Trump’s supposedly crazy tweets prove to be true so often? For example, Trump claimed his campaign was bugged, and it turns out Trump’s campaign was bugged. Trump claimed Hillary Clinton should be in jail, and it’s an open secret Hillary Clinton should be in jail. Trump claims much of the media engages in fake news, and CNN in particular proves this correct time and time again.
Maybe Trump is secretly crazy. Maybe Trump wanders the West Wing late at night and bays at the moon. But when he’s on, he’s on and his judgment seems more on target than those of traditional politicians and the career hacks that serve in the permanent bureaucracy.
Oleg from the People’s Cube wrote this, right? (Dead Che Tees available there)
If I reach across the isle it will be to slap some sense into the morons on the Left. But then I know the only thing I will get out of that is a hand full of splinters.
I dropped off after he characterizes himself as “an adult in the room”.
If you were an adult and you principally disagreed with your bombastic tyrant
Boss, you’d leave. I would.
This is libtard fantasyland pillow talk.
I’m so sick of the President getting pigpiled and rat fucked by the deep state.
What Wyatt said. What does it take to get a Democrat arrested around here, have them become a Republican?
Just repeat after me, President Trump, private citizen Hillary Clinton. I can not imagine where the Country would be if that hag had won. Thank you Lord and all you fellow Trump voters. We may have a chance to turn this Hell bound train around yet!
Okay, let’s write an article from an anonymous source high up in the NYT. We can say anything we want and no one touch us. That’s journalism today.
Sometimes — too often — I wonder how Trump gets the energy to get out of bed each morning and continue the fight…..
….but I am so grateful that he does.
(He bats ’em all off like gnats, big fights and small.)
….Lady in Red
So, wait, this ‘insider’ from the white house is taking issue with the fact that Trump is NOT doing what every other president before him has done?
(Read: not keep campaign promises, ignore the flawed education system, weaken the economy, lie to the public, endorse polices that the NWO and the UN approve of, wage war with random small countries for their oil, etc.)
Why is this a bad thing? Why would we want that again? Is the author of the article insane? (Perhaps.)
President Trump may be unorthodox, but he gets results and he clearly loves our country. Everything he has succeeded in so far has been for the betterment of our nation. The only issue I have is the military spending bill was chalk full of needless spending for random shit that the democrats and rinos wanted. He was weak on that.
I have no idea if this white house snitch is real or not, but if they are then I hope they lose their position asap.
Good lawd, what’s next? This anon cretin found 45’s soiled undergarments? Seriously, the NYT is not even worthy of my bird’s droppings.
Let’s take just one line from this and parse it out to show how weak this 7th grade level op-ed is:
Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives:
free minds – I have yet to see one person jailed for saying something against President Trump. Not one. Unless they are screaming in the halls of Congress. Obama jailed several people.
free markets – When one side in the trade market benefits from unfair rules and limitations only a stupid politician ignores it for the sake of “free trade”
free people – I’ve never felt freer from my government. Who is not free? Name one person.
I don’t want PDJT to be a republican or a democrat, I want him to be the American President who makes a difference and makes America great again.
Screw whoever wrote this and the camel/goat they rode in on.
Pantload, written by the same “men” who write the letters into penthouse
Is this another Donald Trump ploy?
Misguided impulses? MAGA?
A knowledgeable source confirmed that the writer of this article molests livestock.
It’s Omarosa. LOL
@even Steven.
Rumor has it the source only molests livestock after being thrown out of the house by his wife because of his unhealthy attraction to his young sons, usually fueled by his opiate and alcohol addictions.
Of course, this information came to me from the sister of an old friend who used to bowl in a Thursday night league with the alleged informant.
Now. Where did I put my beer?
MJA is right. That was my guess.
I laughed. It sounds like Papadopoolous edited by Egg McMuffin because muh principles.
Then the appeal for everyone to work together at the end cuz we’re all ‘Muricans.
If it is real, this fagboy is as delusional as he is undeservedly condescending.
On Drudge it says “hundreds fit the ‘senior’ label.”
Well there it is in a nutshell.
DRAIN THE FUCKING SWAMP! 🙁
If the people surrounding Trump really run the show are so effective in spite of Trump’s incompetence, why didn’t they make the country better under Obama?
This idiot makes no sense.
Put Trump in front of cameras or 10,000 people and he can speak with authority on a dozen subjects for an hour and a half without a teleprompter. Put Obama in the same situation and all we got was “I, I, I, me, me, me, uh, uh, uh, 57 states okeydoke.”
No need to read this anonymous op ed by a sniveling treasonous coward who won’t come forward if, indeed, he works for the administration at all.
Although it IS possible this came from a deep-state Obama hold-over in the administration, given that this is from the NY Times, my money is on Sarah Jeong as the author.
FOX NEWS BANNER: “Senior Official slams Trump in NYT Op-ED.”
They neglected to say Anonymous Senior Official.
Knowing the kind of bomb-throwing, radical, screaming, psychotic, Leftist idiots that the NYT hires this Crock-O-Shit got hatched right there at 242 W 41st St!
Leftists and Neo-Libs ‘grasping at the straws’ they want to ban…idiots.
MAGA2016
KAG2020
Desperate measures for desperate leftists.
Complete fiction. This show s the utter desperation of the left, not any fault of the POTUS.
An anonymous senior WH source told me that Obama was a mouse dick marxist gay muslim and Michelle was a tranny…oh wait!
Is this what the NYTimes wants to believe or what they want everyone else to believe?
If it’s real, it’s probably Jeff Sessions.
I am wondering if maybe it’s satire. As in, the NYT fell for a joke.
“Anonymous Source” = “Total Made-Up Bullshit”
If there was any chance of it being a real, live human – it would be the most pusillanimous coward of all time – a gutless piece of shit.
Certainly no one who should be in ANY Administration, or in ANY position of authority.
izlamo delenda est …
Like when a 5 yo says “what chocolate?” and he has chocolate all over his face – this person is a liar.
It has the lilt, meter, and rhythm of a pajama soy boy writing his very most cleverest attempt at impersonating a righty. Filled with what a lefty believes SHOULD resonate with their idea of what the right is.
The same mindset that is amazed Trump’s approval rating isn’t at tar & feather level yet. Looking at you, Katy Tur.
The nevertrumpers/establishment think they’ve found a way to take credit for everything Trump has done. They’re really the ones who’ve been steering the ship, you see. And by god, they’re not going to keep babysitting the crazed halfwit.
Go to hell, you f–king parasites.
And this Anonymous Senior Official sounds suspiciously like Erick Erickson’s Safeway buddy.
Erick Erickson’s Safeway buddy, for comparison….
“He may be an idiot, but he’s still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right. But dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November….It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him.”
“….If we get to summer and most of the primaries are over, they just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller. The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker.”
“….I say a lot of shit on TV defending him, even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.”
Who reads the NYT any more?? I have plenty of things to keep me busy and sorting for a word or two of truth hidden perhaps somewheres in the NYT is never put in my schedule. There’s lots of other places more likely to contain the truth on a regular basis.
I had a lot of driving to do today and caught a few minutes of medved. He is concerned about a potential crisis. He is such a pussy!
The BIGGEST pant load?
That would definitely be a LOT of shit to determine.
This reads like some shit that Bill Kristol or Evan McMullin would dream up. They’d convince themselves they were lying in a noble cause, when, in fact, they handed yet another huge win to Trump by showing what weasely assed sacks of shit are lined up against him. If the author is really in the White House, then they’re a lawless, gutless shitweasel proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the swamp is real. If it is some fraudulent shit being forwarded to the NYT by some liar, then it just shows that, once again, Trump’s enemies consist of liars, lame media propaganda merchants, and deep state shitweasals. It’s all win for Trump here. And if Trump wrote it, then no one will admit it because it would prove he’s not the moron they’ve claimed him to be.
That being said, my pick for the actual author is McMullin or Kristol or someone in their circle of shitbags, not inside the White House.