Trump Administration Setting New Records Almost Daily in the Worst Possible Way

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(The "Great Shrinking Administration")

From various sources like this from the Washington Post in part:

U.S. lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — and top national security officials in the Trump administration now offer the same advice publicly and privately, often clashing with Trump’s Twitter stream, and that advice is: “The United States remains staunchly committed to its European allies, is furious with the Kremlin about election interference, and isn’t contemplating a preemptive strike on North Korea to halt its nuclear program.”

But Trump himself engaged in a running counterpoint to that message has at times taken aim on social media even attacking NSC adviser, H. R. McMaster, saying once: “He forgot to tell the Munich Security Conference that the results of the 2016 weren’t affected by Russian interference.” 

That is of course a conclusion that is not supported by all of the intelligence agencies. But, the determination to ignore Trump’s foreign-policy tweets has been bipartisan.

So, the question of whom foreign leaders should believe is simple, believe Trump himself, his tweets, or his advisers – and that has befuddled European officials all across the line, e.g., German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel confessed Saturday that he didn’t know where to look to understand America, saying: “Is it deeds? Is it words? Is it tweets?” He further stated he was not sure whether he could recognize the United States or not. And, away from the glare of television cameras, many other European diplomats and policymakers echoed those same concerns.

Another diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid provoking Trump, asked whether or not policymakers like McMaster who adhere largely to traditional U.S. foreign policy positions were falling into the same trap as Germany’s elite during Hitler’s rise, when they continued to serve in government in the name of protecting their nation.

The answer, the diplomat said, might be found following “nuclear war,” which he feared could be provoked by Trump administration’s hawkish approach to North Korea.

Testing those lines, McMaster has now offered a starkly different view of the world from his own boss, saying that the “evidence is now incontrovertible that Russia intervened in the U.S. political system.” As far as Trump is concerned, he keeps downplaying the Russian involvement, saying that he believes the reassurances of Vladimir Putin that the Kremlin was not involved in the election, and he believes that line.

My summary and 2 cents: Based on all of that, my best educated summary of the Trump-Putin luv fest is this...

When will the country wake up to this man in the White House as being the worst President ever and the #1 cause for the turmoil and chaos he now blames on others and all the while Trump keeps praising Putin.

I can only guess that in the end Trump plans on all this benefiting himself (business expansion worldwide) or that which he shown an interest in and that is building and owning his own giant media enterprise.

The name for that media giant might be: “TEN: Trump Entertainment Network.”

If not that then possibly he sees himself and Putin on the world stage sharing a Nobel Peace Prize for being the world’s “Greatest Deal Makers” – that is very strong at least in Trump’s mind. Also, my hunch – after all who ever knows what Trump thinks.

Trump's strategy all along is simple: Cause turmoil, chaos, and as much democratic structural damage and disruption as possible and then settle back with some sort of monetary deal while saying: “See how I solved this mess and that's why I am an expert deal maker which I have always advocated – believe me – and now you see it again in action cleaning up this Fake News and Hoax and Witch Hunt.”  

s/ Donald J. Trump

Finally, who really knows for sure, so stay tuned.

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