Trump Wasn’t Thrilled By That Mulvaney Interview On ‘Fox News Sunday’

President Trump has spent the entire weekend holed up in the White House, voraciously consuming media coverage of his White House acting chief of staff and becoming increasing frustrated by Mick Mulvaney’s messy attempts to clean up his quid pro quo admission last week.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1256886

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Mulvaney to be gone by the end of the day?

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Uh oh. Someone is going to take Fredo fishing.

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Yup, Mick will have an overwhelming urge to spend time with this family. Whether his family wants to spend time with him is another question all together.

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Mulvaney is toast. I’m pretty sure the only reason he hasn’t been canned yet is that literally no one else on the planet wants to be Trump’s Chief of Staff.

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So does Trump fire Mulvaney right away, or toy with him and increase Mick’s abasement for a little while (under a Scaramucci from the Mick’s Presser, of course.)

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Presumably this was Trump himself telling CNN this news. Unless it was Jared. There’s not a long list of potential sources. I think I read recently that “high sources in the administration” or “Someone close to Trump” means Trump.

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Bye, Mick. You fucking earned this.
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“…Trump is growing increasingly annoyed that Mulvaney can’t seem to properly communicate…”

Jesus, the lengths people will go to not say “lie through his fucking teeth” 🤦

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Ok

Now what?

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It’s always much easier to keep your facts straight when you’re actually telling the truth. That’s the main issue these Trump goons always run into.

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Naw, those mean David Dennison.

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Kurds are getting displaced, robbed, deserted, lied to and murdered.

And the pressing issue in DC today is Mulvaney’s fate.

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Or “John Miller.”

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Mick’s only CoS but head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well. I figure Jared for CoS and Ivanka for CFPB - only because Jared has a lot of stuff on his plate and Ivanka is a top consumer of odd dresses and accessories.

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When your management style is only capable of retaining sycophants and liars, stuff like “not thrilled” happens.

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According to CNN, Trump is growing increasingly annoyed that Mulvaney can’t seem to properly communicate the White House’s impeachment message and spent the weekend watching the news and taking calls from allies who criticized Mulvaney.

Mulvaney can’t seem to properly communicate the WH’s impeachment message because it is incoherent. No one can communicate it. The boss seems to think that they can lie their way out of this (again), but they haven’t seemed to come up with the right lie yet.
And I still contend that Mulvaney was actually saying exactly what his boss wanted him to say. The audience didn’t buy it. That presser was the Trump Steaks of pressers.

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The short list of toadies to replace Mulvaney must be incredibly short.

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We may find out it only has one name. Donald Trump.

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