Saturday, September 02, 2017

New White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, has identified "patient zero" in who triggers Trump the most, Omarosa.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:

Newly minted White House chief of staff John Kelly has sought to put a dent in the influence of one of President Donald Trump’s most famous advisers: Omarosa Manigault. 

The former Apprentice co-star—who currently serves as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison—has seen her direct access to the president limited since Kelly took the top White House job in late July, sources tell The Daily Beast. In particular, Kelly has taken steps to prevent her and other senior staffers from getting unvetted news articles on the president’s Resolute desk—a key method for influencing the president’s thinking, and one that Manigualt used to rile up Trump about internal White House drama. 

Multiple sources in and outside the Trump White House told The Daily Beast that, until recently, it was common practice for aides to slide into the Oval Office and distract and infuriate the president with pieces of negative news coverage. Manigault, they say, was one of the worst offenders. 

“When Gen. Kelly is talking about clamping down on access to the Oval, she’s patient zero,” a source close to the Trump administration said.

Apparently Kelly is also screening the materials that make it onto Trump's desk, and has rejected items from the Daily Caller, Breitbart, or Info Wars, which means that Trump's hunger for conspiracy theories is left un-satiated.

Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, and confidant, is also leaving the White House most likely due to Kelly's influence.

Courtesy of CNN

President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN. 

Schiller has told associates within the last two weeks that he plans to leave the White House at the end of September or in early October, the sources said. Schiller has told people his primary reason for leaving was financial, the sources said. Schiller earns a $165,000 annual salary at the White House -- a downgrade from his annual earnings before he followed Trump to the White House. 

Schiller's planned departure comes just over a month after Kelly became chief of staff with the mission of instilling new order inside Trump's often chaotic White House. 

This removes key members of Trump's inner circle, and follows the removal of Steve Bannon, who also fed Trump's baser instincts.

But how long can all of this really last?

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Like every other new sheriff in town Mr. Trump has hired to turn things around at the White House or in his presidential campaign, Mr. Kelly has gradually diminished in his appeal to his restless boss. What is different this time is that Mr. Trump, mired in self-destructive controversies and record-low approval ratings, needs Mr. Kelly more than Mr. Kelly needs him. Unlike many of the men and women eager to work for Mr. Trump over the years, the new chief of staff signed on reluctantly, more out of a sense of duty than a need for affirmation, personal enrichment or fame. 

“It is inevitable that a guy who will not be contained and does not want to be handled or managed was going to rebel against the latest manager who wanted to control him,” said Roger Stone, the longtime Trump adviser, who believes Mr. Kelly represents a kind of management coup by “the triumvirate” of two powerful retired generals — Mr. Kelly and Jim Mattis, the defense secretary — and one general who is still in the Army, the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. 

“Ultimately Donald Trump is his own man, and he’s going to resist all the control and regimented systems Kelly is trying to impose,” Mr. Stone said.

I can only imagine what happens once Trump tires of being handled and fires Kelly.

And unfettered Donald Trump is a batshit crazy Donald Trump and that may be too much Donald Trump for even die hard Trump supporters to stomach.

27 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:43 AM

    I have never liked that woman! Always thought she came off as a total bitch - going way back to her days on the Apprentice show!

    She assuredly has no place in government and especially as an adviser to Trump.

    Her butt needs to be kicked out of D.C. and soon! She adds nothing to anything other than hate! And, she is suppose to be a minister? Give me a friggin' break! She's pure nastiness and evil!

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    1. Anonymous12:52 PM

      She looks like a tough guy!

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    2. Anonymous4:21 PM

      12:52pm
      I think a trip down the tighty-whiteys would prove that it's most certainly a guy, in a respects.

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  2. Jkarov11:45 AM

    Manigault is doing exactly what comes naturally to an entitled, self importan, narcissistic vapid idiot given prominence by a sociopath.

    IF you ever watch Omarosa on TV, it won't be long before she's pushing her militant Christian crap at you in an obnoxious way.

    She will say " you aren't listening to your inner voice" as a way to bring up god and sonny jesus.

    She fits right into the rich entitled pretend christian horse shit circle of "pastors" that surrounds Trump like stink on doodoo

    She's the type that thrives on intrigue, backbiting, and revenge against all those who won't BOW DOWN TO THE DONALD!

    No , I'm not kidding, that's actually what she said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8OVmhpjPKI

    This woman is a narcissistic monster, and has the same lust for fame, power, notoriety, and money as the Wasilla Idiot

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  3. Anonymous11:57 AM

    The disgraceful fall of Trump’s ‘alpha males’

    ...It was supposed to be so glorious, this new Washington high on Republican testosterone. “The alpha males are back,” declared Sebastian Gorka back in December on Fox News. The reference was to himself and, presumably, the many other members of the incoming Trump administration who would give no succor to terrorists abroad, or to seditionists at home, in particular those employed by The New York Times and CNN.

    The alpha males didn’t last long on Capitol Hill. First went Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser departed in February, after his extensive ties to Russia came to light; March brought the demise of Boris Epshteyn, a boorish media representative who once assaulted a man in a Scottsdale, Arizona, bar; spymaster manqué Ezra Cohen-Watnick got the heave-ho from the National Security Council in early August, following close behind unhinged colleague Rich Higgins; days later, the most alpha male of all, chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, was fired by new chief of staff Gen. John F. Kelly; Gorka is gone too, reportedly axed in the midst of a two-week vacation that he surely devoted to some exceedingly alpha pursuit such as hunting killer whales with his bare hands or reading the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.

    It’s no accident that these alpha males either came from the alt-right or were celebrated by the sweaty trolls who comprise that strange and strident political faction. The division of masculinity into alpha and beta males is a favorite trope of those who deposit their political convictions in the darker corners of 4chan and Reddit. Many of them are also gamers, their blustery views on politics and human affairs informed to a disturbing degree by Grand Theft Auto. In Devil’s Bargain, his biography of Bannon, Joshua Green describes how the future Breitbart News chief executive grasped that gamers were an untapped political force; Green perceptively calls the alt-right a “rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression,” a battalion of betas convinced of their own alpha status.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/the-disgraceful-fall-of-trumps-alpha-males/

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    1. Wow.

      You write so well you could get a job working for Raw Story.

      Oh, wait.

      That *is* the article from raw story.

      Plagiarist.

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    2. Anonymous 11:57 AM wrote: The disgraceful fall of Trump’s ‘alpha males’ plus a lot more copied directly (as mlaiuppa has already pointed out) from Raw Story.

      Please learn how to summarize. If you actually understood the Raw Story yourself, you should be able to describe enough of it in your own words, or a plainly marked brief quote, so that readers can decide whether to follow the link.

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    3. Anonymous5:27 PM

      You forgot Lewdandowski getting the heave ho during the campaign.

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    4. Anonymous5:32 PM

      eff off the both of you pseudo site police.

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    5. What you, you ANONYMOUS COWARD 5:32), don't realize is that Gryphen could get a cease and desist and have his site shut down for his posters repeatedly plagiarizing from major news sources.

      It's happened before.

      It's also basic netiquette and standard research practice for anyone with above an 8th grade education.

      You putz.

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    6. Anonymous7:48 PM

      eff off yourself 5:32!

      YOU are the one who is full of shit!

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    7. Anonymous2:25 AM

      You're all getting purty anal here. Librarian needs to leave her skills in the library. And quit trying to edit Gryphs blog. Nobody gives a shit. Its a fucking Blog,not a term paper.

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  4. Anonymous12:10 PM

    President Dumbass has been "joking" in Houston that his hands are too big. Obviously, this still bothers the thin skinned idiot, so I hope that people will continue to mock him.

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    1. Anonymous5:33 PM

      Yep, they didn't want to hurt his feefees so they put out the kiddie size gloves. He's just an xxsmall "adult."

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  5. Anonymous12:19 PM

    What happened in the Russia investigation while you weren’t watching

    https://news.vice.com/story/what-happened-in-the-russia-investigation-while-you-werent-watching

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  6. Anonymous12:54 PM

    Trump interrupts Harvey relief mission to snipe at press about the size of his hands

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trump-interrupts-harvey-relief-mission-to-snipe-at-press-about-the-size-of-his-hands/

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  7. Anonymous1:07 PM

    KTLA: No Evidence Trump Tower Was Wiretapped, Justice Department Says
    http://ktla.com/2017/09/02/no-evidence-trump-tower-was-wiretapped-justice-department-says/

    CNN: Trump finally admits it: 'President Barack Obama was born in the United States'
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-obama-birther-united-states/index.html

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  8. Anonymous1:42 PM

    Trump went to Texas looking for good publicity, but all he did was prove that he is the most out of touch president in a century.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/02/mind-trump-hurricane-victims-happy-harvey-beautiful-country.html

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/02/trump-shelter-full-harvey-disaster-victims-brag-size-hands.html

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    1. He can't even get a "do-over" right.

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  9. Anonymous3:44 PM

    That Omarosa creature sure triggers me. What an evil bitch.

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  10. Anonymous4:10 PM

    Gosh the moron has been in office for 8 months and still hasn't gotten it though his pea brain, he is suppose to be working for ALL the citizens of the USA, not himself and not only his supporters!!!

    If he wants to read fake news then go back to the Apprentice.

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  11. Anonymous4:19 PM

    Woah! Omarosa he's scarier than Trump!

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  12. Anonymous4:24 PM

    He worked for Al Gore so just saying that thing has no firm political adherence.

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    1. Anonymous5:46 PM

      or beauty , or morals, or brains. Just avarice and self-hate.

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  13. Anonymous9:34 PM

    If I ever build a house in Alaska (when hell freezes over because I hate snow), I'm asking Sarah's husband and son to build it. They're a great carpentry team I see. What a bond too.But we knew that. They share a love of planes and fixing them together and obviously hunting every year.

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    1. Anonymous9:54 PM

      If you ask them, I'm sure they'd be happy to adopt you. They need another special needs prop to lug around to public events. Trog has gotten too big and nasty, but you sound dumb and docile enough to work out just right.

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    2. Anonymous9:01 AM

      9:54 PM - I don't know about docile when it comes to 9:34 but dumb is certainly apropos. She went down the rabbit hole a long time ago and is completely untethered from reality. Her noodles are scrambled big time. I have heard that at various times restraining orders have been issued against her. She has been more than just a nuisance. She is kept somewhere padded but has internet access.

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