Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Adelson just went into McConnell's office https://t.co/I9XlBeAJ06

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) May 16, 2017

Hahah but of course.

More from that NYT story:

As they struggled to limit the fallout on Monday, Mr. Spicer and other Trump aides decided to send Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, to serve as a surrogate.

They realized that selecting such a high official would in some ways validate the story, but they wanted to establish a credible witness account exonerating the president from wrongdoing — before the barrage of Twitter posts they knew would be coming from Mr. Trump on Tuesday morning.

I mean...if this is what they're essentially admitting now.

Oh man, some real meat in the middle of that piece:

In his comments to reporters on Monday, Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican close to some in the White House, was explicit about the situation.

“They are in a downward spiral right now,” he said, “and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that’s happening.”

A dozen of Mr. Trump’s aides and associates, while echoing Mr. Trump’s defiance, privately agreed with Mr. Corker’s view. They spoke candidly, in a way they were unwilling to do just weeks ago, about the damage that was being done to the administration’s standing and the fatigue that was setting in after months of having to defend the president’s missteps, Twitter posts and unpredictable actions.

And the kicker:

There is a fear among some of Mr. Trump’s senior advisers about leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn. General McMaster, in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground.

This has, at times, chafed the president, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation. Mr. Trump, who still openly laments having to dismiss his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, has groused that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and the president has referred to him as “a pain,” according to one of the officials.

In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.

so is McMaster getting fired soon or what

this is the guy Israel wanted, don't forget

p sure they wd've been equally fine with Her Cravenness.

Sen Burr to me and @seungminkim pic.twitter.com/WJcHFXNwan

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) May 16, 2017

@seungminkim Burr added “I hopefully can cover this in a telephone conversation vs. a transcript, but I’ll go that route if I need to. Let me get lunch.”

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) May 16, 2017

was just on my way here to post those final three paragraphs of haberman's nyt piece ned posted, lolsobbing all the way

"I've been trying to get it all morning" "That's what s/he said!"

someone get sergey lavrov on the phone so he can fill burr in on the deets

p sure they wd've been equally fine with Her Cravenness.

yes, israel was 100% behind the idea of four more years of obama thinking iirc, you're quite correct

mcmaster? i barely knew her!

so is McMaster getting fired soon or what

Two NatSec advisors down in three months? Yeah, probably. Whatever.

The perfect Trump voter

READER MAIL: Scott from Raleigh asks, "Why is bragging about your penis size wrong?" pic.twitter.com/ELozTIVXK4

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 16, 2017

yes, israel was 100% behind the idea of four more years of obama thinking iirc

maybe you should've read some of HRC's Likudish prose last year

yeah i'm sure it was nothing more than opportunistic pandering but HRC always seemed to me to be much more compliant wrt Israel than Obama

Thanks Morbs, looked that up and it's disturbing stuff, that's why I'm calling for President Hillary Clinton to resign from office.

she had Joementum Lieberman running around Florida last fall assuring folks she'd be much more compliant than O

maybe she shouldnt run for president than

lol UMS didnt read your post

McConnell trolling: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-fbi-director-238439

she had Joementum Lieberman running around Florida last fall assuring folks she'd be much more compliant than O

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:32 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa. i'm losing a lot of sleep over this. what other shitty stuff has hillary done? no other interesting news happening now that i can see, tell me more about this woman!

xpost Recommending Sotomayor would be championship trolling

i was responding to Shakey's claim of Israeli Trump partisanship, fuckfaces

why do i stay here? same fucking shit to eternity

asked and answered

important new development

Paul Ryan is the most hated man on Twitter, scientifically https://t.co/CcvV2zfTzA

— Select All (@selectall) May 16, 2017

(something i did at work, shout out to the april trump thread for the idea iirc)

We were told this by a half-dozen advisers https://t.co/ic5HOFS1GE

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 16, 2017

sorry, that should also include this tweet

One other thing to bear in mind - Trump is dreading the overseas trip https://t.co/FoEfQGlOrZ

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 16, 2017

i subscribe to the presidents daily eblast because i like to know how they're spinning this to the faithful. here's the front of today's letter.

Last Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump met with the Russian Foreign Minister and discussed counterterrorism and the common civil aviation security threats to the United States and Russia. Senior cabinet and national security advisors were present at the exchange between the President and Foreign Minister and agree that the conversations were appropriate, legitimate, and an important part of America’s efforts to combat the global terrorist threat. At no time during the meeting were any sources, methods, or military operations jeopardized. Civil aviation threats are real and there is nothing more important to President Trump than the safety and security of the American people.

trying to imagine who thinks that settles that

everyone

Ben Wittes, the Lawfare guy (and noted friend of Comey) is being...cryptic

The lull has begun.

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 16, 2017

tick tick tick tick tick tick

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) May 16, 2017

what's that even supposed to mean

Nato officials will ‘ensure no one talks for more than four minutes to keep Donald Trump’s attention’

“It’s kind of ridiculous how they are preparing to deal with Trump,” one source said. “It’s like they’re preparing to deal with a child — someone with a short attention span and mood who has no knowledge of Nato, no interest in in-depth policy issues, nothing. They’re freaking out.”

bomb threat afaict xp

trying to imagine who thinks that settles that

like 80% of white ppl below the Mason Dixon, for starters

what's that even supposed to mean

maybe it's just referring to the constant stream of trump stupidity, which somehow seems to be increasing in speed. it's been a few hours since the last really dumb thing, so... tick tick tick

Well, Trump promised to hit the ground running and he has, in his own wondrously incompetent way.

I feel lik ethe telling-rissua-about-isis thing is probably blown out of proportion - btu I am excited at ANY chance of impeachement

Of course its blown out of proportion. The leaks were just a sign of how infuriated the intelligence community is with this POTUS.

please no coy oppo dump stuff

I am just saying it is 2:17 p.m.

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 16, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

Coming from an NYT reporter I suspect there's a little more to it.

yeah but what is that even supposed to mean? that there are more hours left in the day?

everyone is just fucking crazy

is he poking fun at the oppo dump leading tweets that people do

the lull before the early morning tweetstorm, before the cable news talking heads primetime hyperdrive, before the response to the response. that lull maybe.

There's gotta be some WWI soldier-poet who wrote about this right before checking out at the Somme

I can see it now - a beleaguered Trump tweeting as he falls into the flames or impeachement - tears of rage - tears of grief "why am I always the one who must tweet!?"