http://thehill.com/homenews/media/34...-after-calling

As Trump touts the success of the stock market, NYT has a nice compilation of all the times before 2017 he called it a bubble

Really stupid question because future Trump is almost too coincidental to be random. What are the odds he's actually working off his own tweets as goals?

"*Hmmm, Obama goes on 17 day vacation* Hey Mooch, make my vacation 17 days, ok?"

It's "unexpectedly", comrade. Please signal home for software upgrade.

Most of them think it because Trump and the gang tout it. There's no way they know what market, jobs, or unemployment conclusions to draw on their own. I mean JFC, Trump just got through telling them those same figures were fake when Obama had them.

I guess Ihat's the cost of sharing a brain with Trump tho.

It's tricky.

One thing is that if Kelly settles things down and keeps the chaos to a minimum, it might afford Trump more time for TV and golf. The rumors were that his office was just a revolving door of people making requests and dumping information on him. That probably gets tiring. Kelly reducing the chaos might leave Trump more time for his real passion, watching news about himself on TV.

But it's a catch-22 because without the chaos, he won't be able to hear so much about himself on Fox and Friends.

So I'm not convinced Kelly is doomed. Not saying he's going to succeed but Trump is a 70+ year old incompetent, he's probably getting tired, and becoming a CEO-absentee type President can't be sounding that bad right now. Kelly keeping problems out of his hair and keeping him happy and distracted and in front of the TV might be right up his alley. You get the sense that his staff was trying to take advantage of him to get him to do stuff; lash out on twitter or lobby Congress. It might very well be that they're all coalescing around a gentleman's agreement that Trump makes everyone's lives harder instead of easier, that involving Trump makes things worse, not better regardless of their various agendas. They may all agree to play nicely with the new model so that Trump just stays out of the way as best as possible.

i honestly think you have a duty to take the job and fight the terribleness. the difference between mattis/mcmaster and the worst members of the trump universe is millions of deaths.

mcmaster has gotten rid of some horrible people pushing insane military ideas

Contra to my point above though is that Jared/Ivanka seem like they are quietly at the center of a lot of rabble rousing of Daddy and without Daddy taking a personal involvement with them, they're probably just going to be ignored and sidelined. I mean this almost sincerely but Kelly's most critical skill is probably something like mastering the fine art of keeping Trump's kids on their perch and feeling satisfied and not bothering Daddy too much so everyone else can attend to their personal grifts, bringing about the apocalypse, whatever. I think if he can do that, he's good for a while.

All that is out the door as soon as SNL does a skit about President Kelly.

Wait, did poconoder just find a way to bash Hillary from that 17 day vacation tweet?

how in the world is there an exact 17 day vacation trump previous tweet. also he spent xmas at mar-a-lago, so it's a double hypocritical special.

The only reason why a lawyer wears a bow tie like this is to manipulate people into thinking he is a nice folksy guy.

I would say Hillary was very "expectant" of dealing with all things west wing.

Would you even care if he was guilty?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...as-guilty.html

lol wow it's starting already

Yes, of course that's why, and not because he's trying to throw up a smokescreen constantly.

Dan Coats issues stern warning to the leakers that he will find them and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

I say we hold Dan Coats to the same standard and prosecute him for contemt of congress for his refusal to answer questions to the senate intelligence committee.

These two ideas aren't in contradiction. The 'smokescreen' is precisely effective for Republicans because it distracts from the stuff, the Trump behaviors, that they might be upset about now and reminds them they hate Democrats. I realize you're quoting a Fox News article but that insight is not wrong.

The article is pretty spot on in a lot of ways:

That's absolutely true.

Also accurate.

Right.

Obviously not.

There's definitely a bunch of dumb takes in that article but none of what this dude is saying is actually that far out of bounds.

wow thats pretty slanted even for fox.

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It's pretty honest. He's just saying what we are. What Trump says. Trump could shoot people in the face on 5th Avenue and 30% of deplorable America would be behind him and crow about that at least he didn't shoot people in the back like cowardly Hillary Clinton did to Seth Rich.

Surprised this article triggered people ITT, he's just saying the deplorables are unflinching partisan idiots, unmoored from reason and the ability to judge Trump objectively, and make excuses for his behavior by comparing them to imaginary Clinton misdeeds they fantasize about in paranoid fever dreams.

Not endorsing the article as like particularly insightful but it's actually brutally honest for a Fox News take.

Totally agree. If anything it's surprising to see it on fox because it basically calls their base mindless idiots.

#1 question asked on the Fox News tour: Can I dickslap Gregg Jarrett with my cock penis?

Friend does business with a guy who works in the Pentagon. Guy basically said today Trump is nothing more than a face. They don't want his hands on anything especially when it comes to the military. He's a stooge, L7 weenie and most people within the government don't treat him with that Presidential respect because they don't take him seriously. He's a celebrity that knows nothing about policy.

Obviously not much of anything we didn't already know or assume.

That's the surprising part!