Crisis of Legitimacy

[struggle4progress]

By John Cassidy
August 17, 2017

... On Thursday morning, the thirteenth day of his disastrous summer break from the White House, Donald Trump returned to Twitter, writing, over several tweets, "Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"

... After days of prevaricating, America’s business leaders were finally abandoning him en masse. Top generals from all five military branches were issuing statements implicitly rebuking him. Many White House staffers were despairing of him. And even some members of the Society for the Protection of Spineless Conservative Politicians, otherwise known as the leadership of the Republican Party, were starting to distance themselves from him, albeit hesitantly and anonymously, via leaks to journalists and statements from well-connected intermediaries ...

Meanwhile .. some .. foreign leaders who had cozied up to Trump were hurrying to put .. distance between them and him. “I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them,” Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, said ...

... Trump’s aides ... have been busy getting the story out that they are mad as hell. Three different sources told the Times that Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, who is Jewish, was incensed by the President’s remarks. The Washington Post reported that John Kelly, the former Marine general who took over as the White House chief of staff a couple of weeks ago, with a mandate to impose some order on all the chaos, had been left “deeply frustrated and dismayed; Bloomberg reported that Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, who was standing next to Trump at Tuesday’s Trump Tower press conference, had gathered his staff together and assured them that he had no idea that the President was going to say what he did ...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-crisis-of-legitimacy

[Warpy]

1. I don't see him offering space in his tower atrium

for any of those "beeyouteeful" statues. Since the public has access to the atrium, he's pretty much abandoned bothering to keep everything alive and repaired. Plunking Jubilation T. Cornpone in the middle of it on his horse might give his tenants something besides dead plants to look at.

[syringis]

3. Please...nooooooooooooo

Imagine someone close to him reads you and whispers in his ear : sounds good idea...

Imagine for once, Trump will follow an advice...

Imagine those "beeyouteeful" statues in his "beeyouteeful" tower...

Too much "beeyouteeful" kills "beeyouteeful"

The statues will be back to life and run out as if they were hunted by a devil ...

It is known that inanimate objects have a soul.

Frankly, are you really seeking for having R.Lee, J.E. Johnston, Beauregard, Braggs, Jackson,...
riding all around the country?

[Achilleaze]

5. "You rang?" - Jubi T.C. (R)

[Warpy]

6. You remembered!

You must be as nuts as I am.

[Solly Mack]

2. It always was a crisis of legitimacy

but now more people are seeing that it didn't pay to pretend otherwise.

[neeksgeek]

4. It's downright hilarious

For trump to call anyone "toxic" or "a publicity seeker." Oh the irony. It burns.

He should go down in history as Donald the Great Pretender.