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

Followup question: KayLeigh, which are you, dumb as a rock, overrated, way over your head, wacko, or incompetent? You need not limit your answer to one category.

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“Did you chop down the cherry tree, Donald?”

“You won’t believe what they’re finding out down at the garden.”

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Penicillin doesn’t work on everything.

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“Why hire rivals that are ‘dumb as a rock, overrated, way over their heads, wacko, and incompetent’?” NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked.

“Sometimes those rivals prove those labels to be true, and that’s particularly true in the case of John Bolton, who repeatedly praised the president and then turned,” McEnany said.

Look at that answer. She is saying that the way the labels are proven to be true is if someone first praises the president and then turns. No mention of competency, of integrity, of honor, of service to country. Just “praise the president = good” and “turn on the president = bad.”

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“…he likes the model of having a Team of Rivals, like with what we saw in President Lincoln’s administration.”

If only she had been asked to discuss some examples from Lincoln’s cabinet.

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OK, that’s it…my absurdity quota is full for today.

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What they mean by “team of rivals” is not what Doris Kearns Goodwin meant when she coined the phrase.

Trump likes to pit everyone around him against each other and watch them fight for approval and attention from him. That’s what they mean. A team of rivals in a wrestling match

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Dear Lord!

Kayleigh is not stupid. Far from it, she’s a smart, educated woman with the soul of a dead Aspidistra.

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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?”@PressSec: “…he likes the model of having a Team of Rivals, like with what we saw in President Lincoln’s administration.”

Dumpf was there? He was around during the Jackson and Lincoln administrations?

Well, as CoS to Jeff Davis why didn’t he advise Jeff to do the same?

Nope. Found the rest of the team…

Someone please Keep the Aspidistra [from] Lying.

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Sources report that Doris Kearns Goodwin has already copyrighted “Stable of Stooges.”

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If true, when Pinkerton (or Grant) told Lincoln at the end of the War that Jefferson Davis was dressed like a woman heading to Mexico, Lincoln would not have said ”let him go”.

What the actual fuck…

No, I don’t want to know.

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There is Dumpf, a 61-year-old, supposed real estate baron fake wrestling.

But he is worse:

Yeah. Right.

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When does Barbie get dumped by Javanka?

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As I just posted elsewhere, ‘rivals’ at what? Seeing who can fellate and/or rim dear leader the most times in a week?

These people around trumpie appear to spend every day doing nothing but shielding him from the ugly truth about himself and his dismal prospects. Seriously, how can they be ‘rivals’ if there are no policy discussions – no policies at all, actually, aside from the daily rants, incoherent screeds and sharpie-inked dictates from Commander Chucklehead – and no one does anything but tip-toe gingerly around the Colossal Orange Calamity?

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I’m sure those are all quotes from Trump Tweets™

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No no no. She apparently prepares so much for these press conferences that she annoys people in the West Wing. She often “reads” from her binders that contain VERY prepared answers. Trump wants divergent opinions as much as he want to wear a condom.

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