When Trump threw a tantrum, his aides used the new Muslim ban to cheer him up

[BainsBane]

Trump was reportedly furious that his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had succumbed to pressure and recused himself from any Justice Department investigation into contacts between Trump's camp and Russia. Trump was so mad about it that he took it out on his senior staff Friday, upbraiding aides in an Oval Office meeting. As a result, at least one member of his inner circle did not go to Florida for the weekend as planned.

Firmly ensconced in his swank Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida by Saturday morning, Trump went on a bizarre Twitter rant accusing, without evidence, then-President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower telephones during last year's presidential campaign ("McCarthyism," Trump strangely called it). Trump's team grumbled to the media that they didn't know what information the allegation — which an Obama spokesperson flatly denied — was based on.

"He was pissed," Christopher Ruddy, the head of the right-wing news outlet Newsmax, told the Washington Post of his two encounters with Trump on Saturday at Mar-A-Lago. "I haven't seen him this angry."
All of this — and it wasn't even Sunday yet.

Fearing for what might happen if Trump's tantrum continued, his aides came up with a plan to cheer the president up. According to the Washington Post:

That night at Mar-a-Lago, Trump had dinner with Sessions, [chief strategic adviser Stephen] Bannon, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, among others. They tried to put Trump in a better mood by going over their implementation plans for the travel ban, according to a White House official.

Trump's staff, then, tried to lift his mood by talking about the upcoming reinstatement of the so-called Muslim ban — the latest iteration of the president's attempt to fulfill a campaign promise to bar travel to the United States for refugees and citizens of a handful of Muslim countries.

https://mic.com/articles/170354/donald-trump-sad-angry-pissed-tantrum-aides-muslim-ban-cheer-up#.f7Yj4n0x6

Says a lot about that scumbag that an appeal to bigotry would cheer him up.

[underpants]

1. He's a child

[mercuryblues]

2. I finally know

what North Koreans feel like under their leader.

[dalton99a]

3. "This is going to be great!"

[Jarqui]

4. I edited my response before posting ...

I have nothing good to say about this man

[BainsBane]

5. It is very difficult to talk about Trump

without using profanity.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Tell me about it!

I feel like my vocabulary has been reduced to a handful of curse words because of this dipshit.

[Jarqui]

7. I nearly said something pretty awful

but it's an affront to say such a thing about the President of the United States. So I stopped.

I've gone from my favorite President ever to the worst. Talk about a tough transition.

He upsets me. He frightens me with the potential of harm he could do to so many. It's a democracy and our duty to speak up. But a contradiction to speak so poorly of the President - who even when I didn't agree with him in the past, I would always try to rise above it and help. I was asked by a Republican President to serve on a think tank and I did. But I would not do that for this man. I want nothing to do with him. I'd like him out of the office asap.

I protested Nixon and never felt this way - never this badly.

[BainsBane]

8. Trump is such a dramatic departure

From any previous president, there is no comparison. The nation is in a very grave situation.