A new book is shedding some light on the inner workings of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. And it isn’t pretty. Journalist Joshua Green’s account of the Trump campaign focuses heavily on his relationship with campaign advisor, and Breitbart News boss, Steve Bannon. Bannon was later hired to serve Trump in the White House as his strategic advisor. The book’s title, “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency,” says a lot about the nature of Bannon’s odious influence.
The publisher’s description of the book’s contents evoke an unprecedented incursion of far-right fringe politics into the mainstream of the Republican Party. It casts Bannon as “a bomb-throwing pugilist who’d never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.” Here’s more:
“From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.”
Excerpts from the book are already beginning to leak into the media. They tell us something about the volatile, profane character of Trump, and his hair-trigger temperament. That’s something he shares with Bannon who, at one point, lambasted House Speaker Paul Ryan as “a limp-d**k motherf**ker.” But some of the most hostile rhetoric was reserved for Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
According to Green, there were episodes when Trump would fly off the handle due some negative press. On one occasion a story revealed the turmoil behind the campaign’s closed doors. “How can anybody allow,” Trump yelled at Manafort, “an article that says your campaign is all f—– up?” On another occasion Trump was upset at reports that some of his team were frustrated that they could not get him to listen. They told reporters that they had to book interviews on television in order to get the TV-obsessed candidate’s attention. This led to an outburst by Trump aimed directly at Manafort:
“Am I like a baby to you? I sit there like a little baby and watch TV and you talk to me? Am I a f—ing baby, Paul?”
Ironically, Trump’s tantrum was proving the accuracy of the criticism he was complaining about. It wasn’t long after that that Manafort was fired. And even that was an ordeal reminiscent of a soap opera. Trump’s son-in-law and consigliere, Jared Kushner, informed Manafort that he was “going to have to go.” Manafort was resistant complaining that a resignation would make it “look like I’m guilty.” But Kushner persisted and told Manafort that a press release would be going out in minutes announcing his resignation.
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The book promises to be as exciting and erratic as the characters it profiles. It would make a great cinematic thriller. Unfortunately, the plot does not make for a great presidency. It certainly doesn’t do anything to make America great again. But it does underscore the danger of putting a paranoid narcissist with no experience in the White House. And it reinforces the dire necessity of removing Trump from office before he does even more damage.
You Liberals must be changing your diapers several times a day. Trump is going nowhere. Get used to it.
The man can’t control his temper and has developed a tendency of firing anyone who tells the truth about him. He threatens to sue and never carries through. He acts like a child on his first visit outside the country and antagonized nearly every world leader.
So, in an article where Your Beloved Fuhrer acts like a two year old, and WE need to change our diapers? Yes, Your Beloved Fuhrer should be going somewhere: to a psycho ward for treatment of his Alzheimers.
It’s hard to figure out who’s worse: Trump or his supporters.
He certainly is going nowhere all right and taking America with him.
You Trumpians are still loving it too because VICTORY! It’s all that matters to you.
Who cares if America goes to the dogs? So long as those nasty liberals don’t win!
This revelation only serves to verify how unsuitable Donald J. Trump is for the presidency of the United States.
He hasn’t the emotional wherewithal to cope with stress and strife and anything that isn’t giving him loving attention and praise. Our nation is suffering and it will only get worse should he remain in office. Like Napoleon, he needs to be exiled to Trump Tower never to be heard from again. His personality is that of the worst human being one has ever encountered. And there is no such thing as being his friend. Five-year-olds don’t have a concept of friendship, only naughty and nice. I wonder how often his mother, Frau Drumpf, put him to bed without “supper” and a bedtime story because he was naughty. His ex-wives must have suffered the “untold agonies” of his temper and flagrant sexual appetite that had no respect for them as women and human beings; they were receptacles just like the sock he would use when he masturbated in junior high. I find him contemptible beyond any other human.
“Am I like a baby to you? I sit there like a little baby and watch TV and you talk to me? Am I a fucking baby, Paul?”
The short answer: Yes, yes and yes.
Hahahahahaaaa! I love it when the devil donald-the-liar-drump and his cabal are knifing each other. Let the circular firing squad continue until they cancel each other out and we wrest back control of our country and government from V Putin and his republican political whores; starting with the most stupid one of all- Donald court-Jester Trump, the fake/ illegitimate president.
Have said from November that traitor trump must be removed from office. Not only is he a mentally unhinged pathological liar and demented but his appalling ignorance is a gross embarrassment to the United States. Traitor trump has no idea of even how to act in a setting with World leaders. But then he is a poorly educated man whose only ‘accomplishments’ if one wishes to call them that, are numerous bankruptcies, numerous failed businesses, too much debt, and refusing to honor even his own promises. His word is as fake as his abilities to be anything other than a whining cry-baby. Traitor trump behaves like a juvenile bully. He must be removed from office, prosecuted for his treasonous conduct and imprisoned. He must be fined for his refusal to place his business in trust. He owns the American people billions of dollars.
dump’s a p.o.s. That’s obvious to anyone with some common sense.