NYT First Breaking News of Friday: Trump sees Kushner/Ivanka as Liability - wants them to leave

[grantcart]

The whole story is fascinating and points to a White House escalating in chaos because Porter is gone but this part is going to trigger a whole new level of finger pointing leaks in the play room that is now called the WH:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/trump-chaos-oval-office.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories

WASHINGTON — For 13 months in the Oval Office, and in an unorthodox business career before that, Donald J. Trump has thrived on chaos, using it as an organizing principle and even a management tool. Now the costs of that chaos are becoming starkly clear in the demoralized staff and policy disarray of a wayward White House.

The dysfunction was on vivid display on Thursday in the president’s introduction of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The previous day, Mr. Trump’s chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, warned the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, that he might resign if the president went ahead with the plan, according to people briefed on the discussion. Mr. Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president, had lobbied fiercely against the measures.

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Yet Mr. Trump is also frustrated with Mr. Kushner, whom he now views as a liability because of his legal entanglements, the investigations of the Kushner family’s real estate company and the publicity over having his security clearance downgraded, according to two people familiar with his views. In private conversations, the president vacillates between sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with.

Privately, some aides have expressed frustration that Mr. Kushner and his wife, the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, have remained at the White House, despite Mr. Trump at times saying they never should have come to the White House and should leave. Yet aides also noted that Mr. Trump has told the couple that they should keep serving in their roles, even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out.

To some staff members, the chaos feels reminiscent of the earliest days of the Trump administration. Some argue Mr. Kelly should have carried out a larger staff shake-up when he came in. That has allowed several people to stagnate, particularly in policy roles, one adviser said.

Can't make it up, wouldn't believe it if I wasn't watching it in real time.

This is how Friday's now start, just wait for the tweets, leaks, and bombastic charges from the bombastic Scaramucci (who seems to be getting phone calls from the WH to launch new attacks on Kelly) for the next 18 hours.

So much winning I wonder how much the Dow will lose today? In three days its lost almost 1000 points.

Idiocy on public display for the whole world to see.

[duforsure]

1. I doubt that

He probably heard they were going to leave, so now he wants to act like its his idea. He does that a lot.

[oasis]

2. Poor kids, turned out into the mean streets.

[malaise]

3. This is known as an IMPLOSION

[OhNo-Really]

34. Oh, I thought that was sushi at a glance. 😂

[heaven05]

4. please

'Little precious ' is not going anywhere. I think we all know this...now her husband can and hopefully will be thrown away like the bag of garbage he is.

[OhNo-Really]

35. CandyCorn need eye candy, Sarah won't cut it

[vercetti2021]

5. So it begins

[Hortensis]

6. NYMag: "President Trump May Be Secretly Undermining Jared and Ivanka, Too"

I checked NYMag because that's the Trump/Kushner home town, and this and similar journals can be counted on to cover family doings. This article is channeling DC speculation, though.

President Trump May Be Secretly Undermining Jared and Ivanka, Too

...He has been asking others, “Why is John Kelly doing this?”

The answer might be more terrible than Kushner imagined. The New York Times reported on Thursday that President Trump himself asked Chief of Staff John Kelly to help push his daughter Ivanka and her husband out of the White House — though as with most political matters, it doesn’t seem like Trump really knows what he wants. In private conversations he’s said to veer between “sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with.” In general, he’s sending mixed messages on whether he actually wants his daughter and son-in-law on his team:

While the idea that the president himself may be secretly plotting to oust his daughter and son-in-law from the White House is quite a juicy plot twist, it’s also one of Trump’s more astute staffing decisions. Not the part where he’s incapable of firing them himself, of course, but his recognition that Jared and Ivanka are massive liabilities who contribute very little to the success of his administration.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-may-be-secretly-undermining-jared-and-ivanka-too.html

[flibbitygiblets]

7. Putin's puppet views Kush as a liability b/c of legal issues,

but couldn't care less that he's a liability TO THE USA because he puts our country at risk by mixing personal business with US policy. Not to mention that he totally sucks at everything he does.

[NewJeffCT]

14. of course he isn't

In Trump's view, he's Making American Great Again and anything that distracts from that is bad and not his fault.

[not fooled]

20. There was a fascinating article

a while back by a former reporter at the NY Observer, which the tadpole bought. The guy laid out what a clueless disaster jared was at the paper, and how his incompetence, control freak behavior, and egotism destroyed a NY institution.

The signposts for this disaster were out there and lit up in blazing neon lights, a long time ago.



and, of course

[Augiedog]

8. They will leave, in handcuffs

[dalton99a]

9. Jared leaving the White House? We'll never see peace in the Middle East.

[grantcart]

24. lol

[HipChick]

10. I have to agree with Trump....

[secondwind]

11. This is a goddamned soap opera!

[poboy2]

17. A soap opera inside an insane asylum. -eom

[dchill]

18. Combined with an alternate reality show...

Celebrity Disapprentice?

[flibbitygiblets]

25. With just a soupcon of collusion

and a heaping scoop of nepotism

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. Congressional GOPers have gagged themselves! We only hear the muffled sounds of..

"Oh, my God! We're fucked!"

[sarge43]

13. It's what happens when grifting amateurs are in charge.

What a surprise.

[pangaia]

15. "......even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out. "

Too much the coward to do it himself, as always.

Bullies are always cowards...

[CanonRay]

19. He's too much of a coward to tell them

to their faces to leave. He'll have a lackey do that. This man disgusts me.

[redstatebluegirl]

21. Not that I don't find this amusing but this clown is loyal to noone except himself.

That should terrify all of us, once he is in a corner, alone, he will start a war for fun to deflect.

[Orsino]

22. They've been holding him back, frankly.

Just you wait until Trump is finally free of all these people who keep him from reading PDBs and formulating policy. He will toilet-tweet his way to American greatness!

[Orsino]

23. If we had an enraged toddler running a chef-oriented reality TV show...

...the toddler would evolve more coherent national policy.

[klook]

30. Gordon Ramsay isn't an American citizen,

so he couldn't be president. He's less of an asshole than Trump, though, that's for sure. And at least somewhat competent, apparently.

[unblock]

26. mr. reality show has to badmouth and undermine people before voting them off the island.

mr. "i have a good brain" can't figure out how to fire people who aren't even collecting a salary.

[grantcart]

33. who the hell is the showrunner for this disaster?

[CrispyQ]

27. He wants Jared out & Ivanka in & doesn't know how to make that happen.

Thus, the one story to Kelly (I want them out) & the other to Jarvanka (I want you to stay). That's my opinion, anyway. With Hope Hicks out, he needs someone to hold his hand & his payoff to the porn star has pissed Melania off.

[C_U_L8R]

28. That's why you don't hire family

Dumbass.

[Kirk Lover]

29. So all he has to do is FIRE THEM. Oh right he doesn't do the actual firing, that wussbag outsources

that.

[Caliman73]

31. Trump is now, was then, and always will be the highest liability.

An organization is only as good as its leadership. You cannot lead with chaos. It may have worked in Trump's shady real estate business and as a personality, but we are talking government, where real leadership is needed because real people get hurt.

Trump is the cause of all of this chaos and has no one to blame but himself.

[Blindingly apparent]

32. Over the last couple of months, I have been hearing this story about a woman and a snake

Maybe someone should have told trump that story before he invited Jervanka to join him at the White House