{"id":39068,"date":"2018-09-04T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39068"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T00:20:10","slug":"fox-news-thanks-god-that-wh-aides-are-preventing-crazytown-trump-from-really-screwing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39068","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Thanks God that WH Aides are Preventing Crazytown Trump From Really Screwing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren&#8217;t afraid before, get ready to be scared out of your wits. Excerpts are being released from Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2oNugBf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fear: Trump in the White House<\/a><\/strong>, by Bob Woodward, that confirm some of the worst horror stories to emerge from the presidency of Donald Trump. The book&#8217;s title could not be more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-zombie.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Zombie\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38307\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2320752037939578\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the revelations that Woodward is reporting are some that have been disclosed previously. For instance, Trump&#8217;s chief of staff, John Kelly, has a less than flattering opinion of Trump&#8217;s intellectual capacity. He is reported to have called him an <em>&#8220;idiot&#8221;<\/em> who it is pointless to talk to. And he describes the White House as <em>&#8220;Crazytown.&#8221;<\/em> That would put Kelly in agreement with Trump&#8217;s former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who called Trump a <em>&#8220;moron.&#8221;<\/em> Not surprisingly, Trump is already refuting the credibility of the book&#8217;s assertions. But credibility is not the hallmark of Trump&#8217;s tenure in the White House. The Washington Post has his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/04\/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-days\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">documented lies<\/a><\/strong> in office up to 4,700+ so far. That&#8217;s an average of fifteen per day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1037117638101688320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Fox News was discussing a part of the book that described the way some of Trump&#8217;s aides deal with his <em>&#8220;off the rails&#8221;<\/em> outbursts and inclinations that pose imminent danger to the nation. And the comments by Fox&#8217;s senior analyst, Brit Hume, tell a terrifying tale of Trump going <em>&#8220;right up to edge&#8221;<\/em> of potential oblivion (video below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;What you see here, in at least the excerpts we&#8217;ve seen from the book, is this volcanic president who [inaudible] about himself in the most demeaning ways to the people around him. Walks right up to edge of what would be incredibly disastrous decisions all the time. Prepared to do this, that, and the other thing. Restrained apparently, ultimately, by aides around him much of the time. There&#8217;s an account in there of a document he&#8217;s about to sign and they came in and took it off his desk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;So what does that say to the people in the \u2018Never Trump\u2019 movement, particularly on the right, who don\u2019t think the people who are serving in the Trump administration should do so because it participates in this fiasco of a presidency? It seems to me the lesson that comes away from this is: Thank God for the people around Trump who are keeping him on the straight and narrow to the extent they can. That&#8217;s a service to the country, it seems to me, without question.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This description of life in Trump&#8217;s White House couldn&#8217;t be more disturbing. Hume paints him as a <em>&#8220;volcanic&#8221;<\/em> figure who is <em>&#8220;demeaning&#8221;<\/em> to his staff. He seems perpetually on the verge of making <em>&#8220;disastrous decisions&#8221;<\/em> in his <em>&#8220;fiasco&#8221;<\/em> of a presidency. Presumably that exempts the decisions that he has actually gotten away with so far. And the only thing that has prevented these calamities is that his staff has literally stolen documents off his desk to keep him from doing more harm.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not bad enough, Hume seems to think that the presence of unelected aides who are willing to deceive and manipulate the commander-in-chief is a good thing. Oh yeah. It is so comforting to know that our president is a flaming mental case with the capacity to destroy the nation &#8211; or the world &#8211; but for some hangers-on who throw the wool over his eyes. Isn&#8217;t that exactly what all Americans want from their national leadership? Trump, in this scenario, is Fox News&#8217; idea of the realization of the American Dream. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brit Hume says the lesson from Woodward&#39;s book is &quot;Thank God for the people around Trump&quot; for literally stealing papers off his desk to prevent catastrophes. &quot;That&#39;s a service to the country&#8230; without question.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4hjHCAp6MG\">pic.twitter.com\/4hjHCAp6MG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommyxtopher\/status\/1037027904494944256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren&#8217;t afraid before, get ready to be scared out of your wits. Excerpts are being released from Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, that confirm some of the worst horror stories to emerge from the presidency of Donald Trump. The book&#8217;s title could not be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[402,127,554,33,1268,1255],"class_list":["post-39068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-bob-woodward","tag-brit-hume","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-john-kelly","tag-rex-tillerson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-zombie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aa8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46642,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46642","url_meta":{"origin":39068,"position":0},"title":"RAGE: Bob Woodward Book Reveals that Trump Deliberately Lied About the Coronavirus","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/9\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"For months after the coronavirus was known to spreading throughout the United States, Donald Trump was pretending that it wasn't anything to be concerned about. 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