Whiplash weekend heightens questions

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By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 6:07 PM ET, Sun October 1, 2017

In .. seventy-two hours .. Trump has .. fired a .. chief with a penchant for taxpayer-funded private jets, bragged about a recovery process .. that bears little resemblance to reality on the ground, lashed the mayor of the island's capital city for questioning the .. response, and viewed a golf tournament .. at a country club that costs $500,000 to join ...

Trump's appeal to .. white working-class voters .. has always been built on an unlikely ability to appear sympathetic to their concerns, a remarkable political feat for a billionaire real-estate developer whose brand was rooted in wealth and indulgence ...

Inside the White House, Trump's concerns about losing the support of his base have blanketed .. his decision-making ... As summer ended without a decisive legislative win, Trump has .. grown more insistent on following .. volatile .. instincts that aides have at times attempted to rein in ...

The White House, cognizant of Trump appearing to take the weekend off at his golf course, scheduled a series of briefing phone calls from 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Each one was scheduled to last no longer than15 minutes, however, and one was with a former governor of Puerto Rico who currently works as a lobbyist in Washington.

No such calls appeared on Trump's Sunday schedule ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/politics/donald-trump-price-hurricane-golf-weekend/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

1. How is this past weekend different from all the previous weekends

during the past 9 months? Same old, same old... BS., distractions and the GOP pretending everything is "normal" as long as it isn't Obama (or Hillary) they sleep well on their overstuffed with cash mattresses.