Trump didn't know what he was signing when he placed Bannon on security council.

[herding cats]

WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.

Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.

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Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.

Until the past few days, Mr. Trump was telling his friends and advisers that he believed the opening stages of his presidency were going well. “Did you hear that, this guy thinks it’s been terrible!” Mr. Trump said mockingly to other aides when one dissenting view was voiced last week during a West Wing meeting.

But his opinion has begun to change with a relentless parade of bad headlines.

Mr. Trump got away from the White House this weekend for the first time since his inauguration, spending it in Palm Beach, Fla., at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, posting Twitter messages angrily — and in personal terms — about the federal judge who put a nationwide halt on the travel ban. Mr. Bannon and Reince Priebus, the two clashing power centers, traveled with him.

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Another change will be a new set of checks on the previously unfettered power enjoyed by Mr. Bannon and the White House policy director, Stephen Miller, who oversees the implementation of the orders and who received the brunt of the internal and public criticism for the rollout of the travel ban.

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Mr. Priebus bristles at the perception that he occupies a diminished perch in the West Wing pecking order compared with previous chiefs. But for the moment, Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council, a greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-aides-strategy.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

This is a must read article. It's total chaos in the WH, and Trump is signing whatever they put in front of him.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Well, if any democrat had done this impeachment hearings would be started already.

But the agenda of hate and destruction by the right outweighs patriotism and the constitution.

They have their chance to literally take everything away from working people and give it ALL to the rich, and they gonna do it, pardner.

Now, if I was YOU ALL I would spend every breathing moment for the next 2 years EXPLAINING how a TWO party system works so that in 2018 we dont have people "showing us" by voting 3rd party NO MATTER how impure the candidate on the D ticket is. I know that is what I am going to do.

[dalton99a]

2. Mencken was right.

"The White House will be adorned by a downright moron"

[riversedge]

3. Read it earlier and posted part of it. Yes, good read and pass it around

[Girard442]

4. Juicing up the rumors that Trump can't read.

Or that he has dementia.

[herding cats]

13. I thought he was dislexic?

I thought I'd read that someplace. He can read, and tweet, though.

[Leghorn21]

5. Hand over heart, I just knew this was satire when I started reading,

"Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit."

But it's real?! This is real?
...it's as terrifying as anything I've ever read about this so-called administration -

[herding cats]

7. Read the full article, it's simply stunning.

My mouth was hanging open by the time I finished it. Trump sits around watching TV and tweeting at night. No one knows what to do, where things are, or who is actually doing what. Bannon apparently has been running the show, and Priebus is trying to up his level of power.

[Leghorn21]

19. Zomboids, cats, roaming in the befouled night - and all best wishes to lil Priebus, non?! eom

[CousinIT]

6. "Trump is signing whatever they put in front of him."

That's exactly why they wanted him there. JUST WAIT until they push the total gutting/cutting/privatization of social security and medicare in front of him. OUR money - ALL of it gone to pay for tax cuts for Wall St., Corprats, millionaires and billionaires.

[PA Democrat]

8. Trump just follows President Bannon's orders.

[herding cats]

14. Essentially, yes, that's what he's been doing. nt

[Progressive dog]

9. Trump has picked his advisors

so that he can be the smartest one. Think of how difficult that must have been and how tiny the group he had to choose them from. He manged to find "so called" humans who can't operate light switches. Great job, Trumpy

[Initech]

10. If you sign without reading, you're going to have a bad time!

[Leghorn21]

18. Ha! This sounds like the last line from an Aesop's Fable! - something to be

embroidered, framed and hung over the mantelpiece in every wise household!

[Phoenix61]

11. If only someone could sneak in a

resignation letter or voluntary commitment papers.

[MGKrebs]

12. Another quote from the story:

"For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, Mr. Trump was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options."

WTF.

[herding cats]

15. It was finally something he understood.

He's in over his head, and is relying on Bannon to run the office. They basically have no one there who knows what they're doing. Right down to how to turn on the lights, or escort guests out it would appear.

[Volaris]

16. I'm not sure which is worse, that he read it, or that he didnt.

And Steve Bannon TOTALLY didn't put Steve Bannon's name in that Order...HAD to have been someone else.
Yeah, if a Dem Pres had done this, the GOP would be sharpening the pikes for as many heads as they thought they could get.

[MineralMan]

17. The White House has a maintenance staff.

Why do those morons not ask questions about how to operate the lights, etc? I'm sure help was offered as soon as people started moving in there. The idea of the President's staff wandering around in the dark because they can't figure out how to work light switches is not comforting, somehow.

Clearly, this whole thing is not going well at all for the Trump administration. My advice?

Impeach him, Republicans! Do it now!

[logosoco]

20. It appears that this man can't read very well and does not reallly

pay attention to some of the more complicated paper work a president needs to read and understand.

I would like to think that a couple of Democrats could take advantage of this and slip in some resignation papers for him to sign. He may not notice!!!