NY Times: Trump is Stuck With a 'Team of Morons' in the White House

[babylonsister]

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Posted on Wed, Jan 16th, 2019 by Leo Vidal
NY Times: Trump is Stuck With a ‘Team of Morons’ in the White House


In a new column in the New York Times, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman asked a question that many others have asked about Donald Trump’s White House: Why are his top advisers sticking around when it is apparent that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has been gathering evidence of many different Trump crimes, and the president is probably on his way down?

According to Krugman, the individuals left working for Trump in the White House are the “worst and dumbest” of all the people he hired, and they literally have nowhere else to go because they are so incompetent.

In the column, entitled “Donald Trump and His Team of Morons,” Krugman had this to say about the current president:

“There have been many policy disasters over the course of U.S. history. It’s hard, however, to think of a calamity as gratuitous, an error as unforced, as the current federal shutdown. Nor can I think of another disaster as thoroughly personal, as completely owned by one man.”

“You can’t fully make sense of his policy pratfalls without acknowledging the extraordinary quality of the people with whom he has surrounded himself. And by ‘extraordinary,’ of course, I mean extraordinarily low quality. Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons.”

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The famous economist and political commentator then asked who would still be willing to work for Trump at this point:

“Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do. There are, no doubt, conservatives smart and self-controlled enough to lie plausibly, or at least preserve some deniability, and defend Trump’s policies without making fools of themselves. But those people have gone into hiding.”

He concluded by saying that the people who are still in the White House have been distilled down from ‘the worst and the dumbest” to “even worse and even dumber.”

And of course Krugman is right. We have an incompetent president surrounded by incompetent people who enable his lies and his misdeeds. They are damaging the entire country and it will take a very long time for the United States to recover from their stupid, misguided actions.

[LongtimeAZDem]

1. This is the main reason I have advocated for Biden for one term; there is a lot to rebuild,

and we need someone who understands how to put it all back together.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. It will likely take a team to put this back together.

I would put Joe Biden on that team.

[Achilleaze]

2. #TeamOfMorons(R) trending

or for DU #TeamOfMorans(R)

[GusBob]

3. Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe

They are all a bunch of stooges

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R