THE STEPS TO TAKE FOR SURVIVAL AS TRUMP’S CHIEF-OF-STAFF

…Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ family was asked to leave a Washington restaurant because she continues to lie for President Trump 

Three decorated US Generals were humiliated in Trump’s White House.

There is now some very good advice from the award-winning, Washington Post op-ed writer Dana Milbank, for anyone that agrees to take the next Donald Trump, Chief-of-Staff position.

Mr. Milbank is giving the follow advice for surviving any job in the Trump administration.  This is his list of six steps of survival as Trump’s Chief-of-Staff.  I will then add my own advice for each step.

1. First, add a therapist to your list of Doctors.

2. Don’t quit your day job, take a leave of absence.

3. If you aren’t married, get married, because people who work for Trump, can’t get dates.

4. Along with finding a therapist, hire a lawyer right away.

5. Open new accounts at Uber Eats & Instacart under a pseudonym.

6. Above all, try to have fun!

Now, here are my comments on Milbank’s recommendations:

First, add a therapist to your list of Doctors.  If you actually agreed to take this Trump position, you probably have no experience in government or in working in Washington DC.  You also realize that Trump’s own personal lawyer just got three years in prison, while you heard the lawyer’s tearful statements about the mental stress he went through over ten years of working for Donald Trump.  Therefore, the idea of having a full-time therapist on your speed dial will be a very good option.

Don’t quit your day job, take a leave of absence.  As one of several communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci, under Donald Trump, only lasted 10 days.  In addition, in order to keep her job as Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has had to lie constantly for the president.  If you are unable to do the same, or if you screw-up and actually tell the truth in an interview, you had better have a place to return to, after you are fired.

If you aren’t married, get married, because people who work for Trump, can’t get dates.  If you are married, you will need to tell your wife that you will be coming home late every night, you will also need to work on the weekends and you will be seeing your therapist two or three times per week.  Better yet, if you are married, just don’t take the job.  If you do anyway , it will most likely cause your wife to file for divorce after less than 6 months.

Along with finding a therapist, hire a lawyer right away.  You must be aware that five former advisers to Trump, including: Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, have already pleaded guilty or they have been convicted.  It is also appearing that perhaps Roger Stone, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and even Ivanka Trump, could all be in jeopardy as well.  I would suggest that anyone working for the president should have an attorney on retainer.

Open new accounts at Uber Eats & Instacart under a pseudonym.  Multiple employees of the White House such as Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, have either been heckled at, or asked to leave, Washington eating establishments.  This was primarily done due to their support of President Trump.  Having good food delivered to your home or to the back door of the White House on those late working nights, this would be a good-eating insurance policy.

Above all, try to have fun!  Look at it this way, if you were to take the job, you would be the 3^rd presidential Chief-of Staff in two years.  Working for Trump were John F. Kelly, H.R. McMaster and Michael Flynn, who were all highly decorated generals, before their humiliations in the White House.  Since Trump’s Chief of Staff is as disposable as a used paper towel, what is there to worry about?  You might as well just play it by ear and have fun when you can.  As Milbank says, “There’s little to lose, and worst case is, you could wind up in jail, which isn’t that bad, because, if you are single, you couldn’t get a date anyway.”

The sad point is, that this is a humorous look at the current situation in the White House.  In addition, it’s also close to the truth and is highly dangerous for the continued survival of this great nation.

This president attacks the free press, calling them liars and “fake news”.  For that to come from the elected head of our government, that could a first step to the end of our democratic nation.  Some people already say that under Donald Trump, the United States is becoming a “Banana Republic”.

That could be closer to the truth than any American wants to admit.

Copyright G. Ater  2018