President Bannon’s Chief of Curtain Rods
Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman in the NYT yesterday tell us exactly how much leash Steve Bannon is allowing brain-damaged Resident Dat Guy.
He watches as much TV as he can, wanders the halls in his bathrobe, and mocks the one voice (unnamed) among his aides who thinks things are going bigly badly. He makes sure to critique Spicer’s press briefings and is “obsessed with the décor.”
He will linger on the opulence of the newly hung golden drapes, which he told a recent visitor were once used by Franklin D. Roosevelt but in fact were patterned for Bill Clinton. For a man who sometimes has trouble concentrating on policy memos, [Dat Guy] was delighted to page through a book that offered him 17 window covering options.
Alternative decor: Betsy Ross sewed these from the sails of a pirate ship
So basically, while Bannon slips him things to sign, Dat Guy is acting WH Communications Director, and Decorator-in-Chief. Based on the job he’s doing, while allegedly refusing his pay and accepting $1.00 a year salary (and has THAT been confirmed?) Dat Guy is still being grotesquely and grossly overpaid.
Steve, this doesn’t look like a drapery requisition form…
I know there was an election and Hill got all the popular vote, but who the heck is really the President? There has been too much amputation of the job. Is it really Pence? Bannon? Flynn? Or, God NO! Kellyanne?
1@maggie
So far the insiders say President Bannon, not President Pence, not President Flynn, and not G*d forbid, President Kelly “where’s my pole? i feel like dancin'” anne. You can keep your hat (and everything else) on Kellyanne. Please.
2This whole WH leaking makes no sense to me. My brain tries but cannot figure it out. Are Priebus and Bannon so at each others throats, their sycophants are trashing each other to media? Another way to control Trump? That’s just disloyalty, squared.
Until somebody puts their name on it as they go out the door, looks like we are getting played again.. for what, IDK
3Golden drapes? Wot?! To remind Donnie of happier times showering in Moscow?
4The gilding of the White House has begun!
Next up: Faux painting the outside to look like marble and adding some “ornamentation”. Oh! And adding the gilded “peeing cherub” figure to the front fountain! Delish!
5Slightly off-topic, but just saw this:
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
7:01 AM – 6 Feb 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/president-trumps-simplistic-illogical-worldview-in-one-tweet/
Donnie’s fantasy world is now official policy.
I hope somebody gets a good photo of his face when the torches-and-pitchforks crowd come over the wall, because that will be one big surprise for that little boy.
6Crone, maybe this column will help:
Every presidential administration leaks. So far, the Trump White House has gushed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-trump-administration-has-sprung-a-leak-many-of-them-in-fact/2017/02/05/a13fad24-ebe2-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html
7This is my favorite part, confirming my impression that the new administration is operating in the dark:
“Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.”
8Thanks Rhea,
Turf wars among underlings and currying favor with reporters seems so tame. Bannon and Flynn told us a long time ago who they are. I believe them.
Trumpsters may be stupid but i betcha even they could find the light switches by the second day. Or get instructions from the guy who knows where the breaker box is located.
I’m just nuts enough to think it is more sinister. They are testing to see how far they can go.
9Fellow patrons,
“Leaks” from an elected official are a powerful tool.
If a EO has potential policy change of which they are unsure, a planned leak to the media allows the EO to see what actually hits the fan after the leak is publicized. If it’s not fecal matter, the policy change might move forward. If fecal matter hits the fan, then maybe the proposed policy change remains proposed or dies an ignominious immediate death.
Conversely, if an EO wishes an opponent (or a friendly) to bask in bad data, a leak can provide sufficient bad data to assist the target to create their own disinformation.
Leaks can also be self-defensive or deflective.
As with other tools, this so-called president has f’ed up leaks with his bouts of Twitter diarrhea, making his “heart” and “mind” difficult to discern.
10This is what happens when Republicans run out of Democrats to go after.
Especially if the term “Republican” has lost any real meaning. You know, like “Evangelicals for Trump!”
11Micr, FDR did the same thing but he used Eleanor, deliberately or not. She was to his left, so if she said something like “The military should be desegregated” and everybody lost their [stuff], FDR would say, Oh, that’s just Eleanor, she says things….
12Loved and still love Eleanor. She had a mind of her own. Her various efforts helped a lot of people like my dad. Her world views made unions look sensible to a lot of people who could have thought otherwise. As a result, my dad’s union grew strong enough to pay through their insurance for his multiple vein heart surgery. The same for my mother.
13He’s a bad hombre and has a tattoo: BORN TO HANG…curtains
14Drumpf won’t need no stinking $1 salary. The little Miss us filed a $150 million lawsuit against the Daily Mail? for saying she was an escort. The suit sez the Mail ruined her once in a lifetime opportunity to enrich herself using her position as first lady.
Suit was dismissed in Maryland-lack of standing and refiled from New York.
Never miss a chance to turn a buck.
15e platypus onion, maybe through the discovery process we’ll have a look see through those immigration papers TLOTUS is hiding.
16iSN’T ANYONE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT THIS? a documentary-
Creepy music. THE WEST WING BY FLASHLIGHT?
Can they use the telephone? Don’t they have a list of folk like plumber, electrician, insurance guy, lawyers, by the phone? Everyone with a house phone has a list like that, in pencil, on the back of an envelope. Oh. I just realized, all six of the folks in the West Wing only know how to use cell phones.
I felt sorry for Melania until I saw what her lawsuit was about. Nothing new there. Our oldest son said she wasn’t a model, she was (hey, turn the volume up)….
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