With Trump’s most recent tirade when he falsely claimed the the death toll from Hurricane Maria was inflated by Democrats, aides are just waiting for the storm to pass, banking on real life storm Hurricane Florence to push Trump’s latest scandal out of the limelight.
But this is precisely the problem, isn’t it? He made these tweets to (try to) absolve his administration of responsibility for a terribly mismanaged pre- and post-storm operation for Maria, just a day before another hurricane makes landfall. His tweets can’t help but encourage the media (not to mention people in Florence’s path and voters in November) to make comparisons between Maria and how things go with Florence, examine similarities, differences, etc.
Trump is his own Category 5 weather-maker, his staff realize; getting out of his way, though, isn’t going to make things better. For them, for him, for any of us.
I’ve seen plenty of Congresspersons do this too. They haven’t seen the tweet, so they can’t comment, would be irresponsible blah blah. Like you can’t pull out your phone, find it in 10 seconds, and read it in another 4. And yet it’s hardly controversial. Even his strongest supporters wish he wouldn’t tweet like that, because everyone can see what a damaged, toxic person he is when he does it. It’s like a dinner party where the host is obviously drunk and everyone’s pretending that things are fine.
I believe this strategy is known as “ignorance is bliss”… 
Well, I’ve never worked for Trump but I’ve been at dinners hosted by a person with a drinking problem. Never found them blissful. 
If there were only mechanisms in our system of government by which he could be removed from office, tweet away to his heart’s content, and no one in the WH or Congress would even be asked to comment any longer because we could all ignore him while his mind wasted away without further danger to the world.
I didn’t get your comment at first, then I realized I was reacting to the first part of your original post and you thought I was responding to the last part. Have now edited my post to clarify.
Sorry, communications failure on my end. 
Dammit man! You said you were going to keep quiet about that!
“…aides are just waiting for the storm to pass, banking on real life storm Hurricane Florence to push Trump’s latest scandal out of the limelight.”
As Charlie Pierce would say, these really are the fucking mole people. You can imagine the strategy session: “OK everybody. Let’s not panic. We just need to hunker down and hope that Hurricane Florence causes enough property damage and enough loss of life to distract the public from whatever batshit offensive nonsense POTUS comes up with next. Oh! And thoughts and prayers to people in the path of blah blah blah. Dismissed”.
Not at all, I knew what you meant, I just kind of flipped it and reversed it. 
That’s when you remember you left the water running in the bathroom and need to go home to shut if off or the kid is sick or the dog bit the neighbor or you don’t feel well.
This is the staff of POTUS admitting to the fact that they
- Don’t like the tweets
- Think they should stop
- But can’t do anything to help
Today’s GOP will be held responsible for the end of the US as we know it. They all refuse to step up and do anything and that is shameful
I wish he were only drunk.
White House aides are following a new playbook when it comes to President Donald Trump’s frequently offensive and incendiary tweets: don’t comment and wait for the next big story to break.
What took them so long? About ten days into Trump’s presidency, it should have been obvious to them that trying to put out Trump’s brush fires, or trying to prevent him from setting them in the first place, was a fool’s errand. Slow learners.
don’t comment and wait for the next big story to break
The reason that doesn’t work is, of course, the fact that the next big story is Trump’s next obnoxious tweet. It’s an endless game of kick the can.
Dang! and I fell for it…assumed it was my fault. Guess that just proves I’m a good Dem.
What a way to run the country - ignore Trump’s craziness because something more crazy is going to come along and dominate the news. How long can this go on? Republicans in Congress: where are you? It’s like America is one big dysfunctional family with an alcoholic mentally ill abusive dad…this is no way to live. I have a question for the trumpers: will SC/NC get better treatment from FEMA than Puerto Rico did? Maybe - there’s a lot of Republicans who own coastal properties.
And then don’t comment about that story either.
These traitors — persons who betray a friend, country, principle, etc… — are enabling a very sick man. Donald Trump is unfit.
Is the foundation of America and Christian morality now resting on a practice of constant lying?
It means - that to his staff/aides - He, himself, is the Pink Elephant in the Room.
Or in his case, the Orange Elephant.
Millions look at Trump and beam with pride and admiration. They have a genuine affection for him, and truly feel he is a genius pursuing the best interests of the nation. Pragmatic. conciliatory types on the left, thinking there must be a way to work with such people and make progress, are supposed to ignore or pretend Trump isn’t a dangerous, malignant narcissist bereft of almost any intelligence or knowledge about the affairs he’s supposed to be managing.
How the hell are you supposed to have a civil conversation with the babysitter about the rules of the house when you’re gone when they’re kicking and beating your child as you try to talk with them? Shouldn’t it occur to you you’ve hired the wrong babysitter and you damn well better do something about it before it’s too late? You know, because you love your child?