WH: Trump Hires Aides He Later Dumps On Because He Wants ‘Team Of Rivals’ | Talking Points Memo

Asked why President Trump keeps hiring officials he later fires, insults and demeans, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that Trump simply strives to build a “team of rivals” in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.


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…and that’s the Best the Spin Machine can come up with?

Someone’s being overpaid,

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It’s just so painful to read about, much less live through this stupidity.

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“Why does the president keep hiring people who are dumb as a rock, overrated, way over their heads, whacko and incompetent?”

A reporter asked that. Let that sink in.

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Like her boss, she is a McEnemy of democracy, reality, goodness… you name it.

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Asked why President Trump keeps hiring officials he later fires, insults and demeans, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday that Trump simply strives to build a “team of rivals” in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.
“Why hire rivals that are ‘dumb as a rock, overrated, way over their heads, wacko, and incompetent’?” NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked.

Speaking of 'dumb as a rock", we have a winner. She is a “team or rivals” of one

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My first out-loud laugh of the day. If she spontaneously came up with that, I’m impressed by the audacity, I have to say.

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I tried to post something but I can’t stop laughing!

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“He likes the model of having a team of rivals,” McEnany told reporters at a press briefing, comparing the style of debate in Trump’s White House to the model of Lincoln’s administration.

Lincoln liked a good old fashioned cage match, I guess.

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Laughed coffee all over my computer!

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Kayleigh, you are even dumber than you think we think you are. But you actual audience is even dumber than you.

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Keep comparing him to Lincoln.

I know there’s a Booth out there somewhere.

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No one can rival Trump in his incompetence, though he does he damndest to find them…

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I swear, before this is all over, the statue of Abe in the Lincoln Memorial is going to come alive and chase Donald into the Potomac, like Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman.

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He wants a flock of suck-ups.

Or something close to that.

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He even asked it a second time, in his follow-up.

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One thing that POC learn very quickly is that there are people for whom the vilification of a stigmatized group is vital for their self-esteem. It’s next-door to bullying for those who are not “stigmatized”.

It is this group to whom McInsane-y is speaking.

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Something that rhymes.

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OT Aircraft carrier captain fired now firing upheld.
Trumps fingers have to be all over this.

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