READ WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

…Michael Wolff, author of the new book: “Fire and Fury”

 

More proof that Donald J. Trump was never fit to be a US president.

 

In the ongoing research I perform for my blog, I had picked up the word that a “tell all” book about what goes on in the Trump White House was in the making.  Therefore, I was not at all surprised when the excerpts from Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury” began dribbling out.

 

First, you need to understand who Michael Wolff is, and why he was allowed into the White House to interview White House staff, senior advisers and a number of Trump’s cabinet members. 

 

Michael Wolff is an American author, an essayist, and a journalist who is a regular columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the GQ magazine.  Wolff was brought into the White House for multiple visits via Trump’s fired Senior Adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, who is also quoted many times in the new Wolff book.  Donald Trump has known Michael Wolff for many years and he knew him way before he had met Stephen Bannon.  Because of that former relationship, Wolff was allowed to have over 200 interviews in the White House.

 

One journalist, and a number of influential Washington individuals have said that if most the quotes in the excerpts are true, the argument in favor of using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump may improve.

 

Based on what’s in the book, it appears that the book is just more proof that our president is semi-­literate, and that he only trusts his own expertise. Trump doesn’t read, he doesn’t even skim the papers and the key information he is provided.  He is also an individual of dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response is to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, is telling him what to do. “It was for Donald Trump”, said the former deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.”

 

The point is that this book is just one more brick on the pile of concern for anyone who cares to look hard enough, understanding that Donald Trump was never mentally, emotionally or temperamentally fit to be a US president

 

Those who argued that his character didn’t matter were both wrong and missing the point. Sanity does matter. This book apparently confirms what dogged opponents of this presidency have always said: “Trump is an unhinged man-child utterly lacking in the skill needed to be president.”

 

Wolff writes in one of the excerpts: “He neither particularly listened to what was said to him nor particularly considered what he said in response. He demanded you pay him attention, then decided you were weak for groveling. In a sense, he was like an instinctive, pampered, and hugely successful actor. Everybody was either a lackey who did his bidding or a high-ranking film functionary trying to coax out his performance, without making him angry or petulant.”

 

Here are some other basics that we learned from these “Fire and Fury” excerpts:

·       Donald and Melania have separate bedrooms.  This is a first since the Kennedy’s that the president and the first lady have separate bedrooms.  This may be explained as the president gets up much earlier to tweet than the First Lady, or……..?

 

·       Trump, in the first days in the White House, ordered two television screens added to the viewing room.  That was in addition to the one TV already there, and he ordered a lock on the door to that room.  This caused a brief standoff with the Secret Service, who insisted they must have access to the room.  One TV is set on his favorite network, Fox, 24/7.

 

·       ­Trump also reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirts from the floor: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor.”

 

·       Trump imposed a set of new White House rules: Nobody is to touch anything of his, especially not his toothbrush.  Trump had a longtime fear of being poisoned, this is the reason why he likes to eat at McDonald’s.  That way, nobody knows he is coming and the food is safely premade.  He also was for some time, a germ freak.  For a long time, he would not even shake hands when meeting people.

 

·       Also, he lets housekeeping know when he wants his bed sheets done, and he strips off his own bed sheets….?

 

Some of the stuff in the book is amusing.  Ivanka reportedly mocks Trump’s hair as an elaborate, gravity-defying comb-over.  For some however, it is also more proof that Ivanka and Jared are both totally incompetent and unable to control Trump in any meaningful sense.

Some issues are potentially incriminating, if true.  “The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos [the Russians] up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” said  Stephen K. Bannon, not long after the Trump Tower, Russian meeting had been revealed. “The three senior guys in the campaign,” Bannon continued, “thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the twenty-fifth floor — with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s--t, and I happen to think it’s all of that, they should have called the FBI immediately.”

 

One part of the book says that all of the advisers and those in the cabinet have their own comments about the president.  He is called the following by both cabinet members and senior advisers: a dope, ignorant, a moron, an idiot, a dolt, very crude and many other highly negative names.

 

The truth is that most of the book is totally humiliating for what have become the White House enablers.  This includes the right-wing media and ultimately the voters who put this character in the Oval Office.

 

Willful denial can explain much of this, but what’s their excuse for allowing him to stay in the White House?

Seeing what he knows, how much of a grasp of details Trump commands, or doesn’t command, and how he reacts when challenged, this is where we should direct our attention.

 

We already know that Trump is a man-child utterly lacking the skill to be president.  We know that the United States reputation and the loss of respect in Europe, the Middle East, in China and even with North Korea and Iran is at the lowest point that it has ever been.

 

But the man was elected via the electoral college, and as long as the GOP owns the House, the Senate and the White House, we will have to grin and bear it.  That is unless the Republicans finally have had enough.

 

Only time will tell, or until there are some changes in the numbers in the US Congress.

Copyright G.Ater  2018