Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together

[DemocratSinceBirth]

One of the things supposedly driving President Donald Trump to distraction, in what should be a celebratory first week in office, is that he isn’t getting a honeymoon period from the media and the general public. “Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media’s failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements,” The Washington Post reported this week, “and he feels demoralized that the public’s perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.”


Trump is still widely disliked, as he was even the day after he defeated Hillary Clinton; the fact that he’s so unpopular contributed to the weak turnout at his inauguration; on Friday, reporters noted (accurately) that far fewer people attended his swearing-in than attended Barack Obama’s first inauguration; on Saturday, they noted (again, accurately) that a massive anti-Trump protest on the first day of his presidency was also better attended than his inauguration.

Trump hasn’t been able to let it go. His preoccupation with popularity hasn’t motivated him to do popular things, but it has driven him to manic outbursts about imaginary voter fraud and media conspiracies. An apparently typical digression about fraud and the popular vote during a meeting with congressional leaders this week “was greeted with silence, and Mr. Trump was prodded to change the subject by Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, and Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas,” according to The New York Times.




https://newrepublic.com/article/140169/trump-republicans-suicide-mission-together

[milestogo]

1. The criticism will only get more intense as time goes on

and he will react to it like a madman.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. I keep hoping that the Republicans will go down in flames but

I keep hoping that the Republicans will go down in flames, but I'm still feeling emotionally battered after this last reflection. Like an evil Phoenix, they keep finding ways to resurrect themselves from the ashes.

I don't know how destroying the Trumpkin--Republican base's Social Security and Medicare will play out, but this last election forced me to lower my estimate of the electorate's intelligence by forty five points. The people who voted for Donnie last year will probably turn out to vote for him again even after he's ruined them and his policies have killed off their loved ones.

[cheyanne]

3. Can we admit that Trump is NOT trying to govern?

No, he is not crazy.
NO, he is not self destructive.

Putin's goals for Trump are to 1) get Tillotson as Secretary of State, 2) drop sanctions on Russia, and 3) stop the government from functioning.

Trump is an egomaniac, but he has been bought by Putin.

And it's treason.