Priebus: "I've got one foot on a banana peel and another out the door"

[kpete]

Trump gives Priebus until July 4th to clean up White House
The president has threatened to oust his chief of staff if major changes are not made, but many are skeptical he’ll follow through.


President Donald Trump has set a deadline of July 4 for a shakeup of the White House that could include removing Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, according to two administration officials and three outside advisers familiar with the matter.

While Trump has set deadlines for staff changes before, only to let them pass without pulling the trigger, the president is under more scrutiny than ever regarding the sprawling Russia investigation, which is intensifying the pressure on his White House team.


Days after his return from his first foreign trip late last month, Trump berated Priebus in the Oval Office in front of his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie for the dysfunction in the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversation.

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"I'm giving you until July 4," Trump said, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation.



http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/11/donald-trump-reince-priebus-deadline-239411

[Mike Nelson]

1. I'd quit, but...

...don't know when his payday is or how much he needs another month's pay. I imagine he's well-paid and has servants and a family to support.

[tblue37]

2. The Emperor insists that you teach his horse to sing. nt

[Miles Archer]

6. President Trump shines out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark

[marybourg]

3. The problem can only be resolved by tRump himself,

since he himself is the problem.

[Bucky]

4. Trump is going to have a hard time getting more people to work for him

The administration is already dangerously understaffed. They're such a clown outfit, it's no wonder Trump can't fire Priebus... he'd spent months trying to find a competent person to take the spot.

As if Donald Trump would know what a competent administrator looks like

[Kaleva]

5. Trump treats people like shit an yet he's confounded by the vast number of leaks.

[sfwriter]

7. What does he expect to happen to Banana Republicans?

[Ace Rothstein]

8. I don't think firing Priebus would work out well for Trump.

This is one thing he could do that I think many in his own party would not be happy with.

[moonscape]

13. I'm not sure it would make any difference. Things are so far off the

rails, Congressional Repubs accepting anything to continue the move to slash medical care and taxes. They might prefer Priebus there in lieu of another Bannon-like figure - or Corey! - but it's hard to see how dysfuntion could worsen.

[displacedtexan]

14. Exactly. Reince brought the tea party into the mainstream party.

The truly scary wingnuts won't like this at all.

Pass the popcorn! This is going to be fun!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. It'll probably take a lifetime for this jagoff to regain whatever little dignity he might

have had going into this shit show.

[Leith]

10. Schadenfreude

As Rachel Maddow pointed out: if you take the vowels out of Reince Priebus's name, you are left with "RNC PR BS."

Since a lot of the shit rethugs pulled happened while Rinse was working his way up the food chain in the party, I don't have any kind of sad for him. The good part is that he is obviously well connected in the organization. Word is that rethugs are frozen in place wondering what to do about tangerine boy. No doubt Rinsie can give them a few ideas if he is publicly humiliated again.

"Get Karl Rove on the phone! Time for a ratfucking!"

[imanamerican63]

11. Don't forget to trow out the orange peel with the garbage!

Trump is one of those he should clean out by July 4th!!!!!

[Quixote1818]

12. Priebus is probably the only thing holding things together at all. If he goes

this clusterfuck of an administration could become a Pandora of clusterfucks all breeding into more Pandora of clusterfucks.

[CentralMass]

15. tRump is lucky that he found a stooge to take that job in the first place.

[rainbow4321]

16. Titanic. Chairs. Rearrange.

Now there is someone who needs to be subpoenaed.

[Solly Mack]

17. I'd tell him to have some self-respect and quit but, well...

[sharedvalues]

19. Too late, he's complicit - will hold on hoping DJT can keep him out of jail

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029111699

[Nevernose]

18. Firing the one mainstream Republican in the WH

The one person with a decent relationship with the Republican Party establishment.

I wonder how well that's going to work for curzing White House dysfunction. Maybe Jared could be in charge of fixing it.

[JI7]

20. doesn't "clean up the white house" mean getting rid of Trump himself ?