He would descend the golden elevators
His staff is “stunned,” we’re told. Really? Why? Did they think he was a decent or thoughtful or humane guy?
Of course they didn’t, but I suppose they must have thought he had enough self-control to hide quite what a foul mindless sadistic demon he is. I suppose they’re stunned that he blew the thing so wide open.
Multiple sources inside and close to the White House described the president’s senior staff as confused and frustrated, caught off guard by Trump’s decision to defend his initial response to the violence in Virginia.
He “went rogue,” one senior White House official told NBC News.
The president’s team had choreographed a plan: he would descend the golden elevators of Trump Tower and step to the lectern in the lobby, flanked by his Treasury Secretary, his Transportation Secretary and his top economic adviser. He would highlight the infrastructure executive order he had just signed, and then he’d leave — head back upstairs and deploy his aides to handle any inquiries.
Instead, he took questions and had a full-on racist tantrum. Kids say the darndest things!
They’re surprised? Really? When anyone who was paying attention *a year ago* could tell he wasn’t fit to look after so much as a goldfish bowl? Will they wake up, now, finally? Impeachment or the 25th, it’s time and then some for that palace coup.
At least we were spared the overweening horror of the first gynotocracy, and we’ll soon get the pleasure of witnessing Nazis trying to gin up open revolt. That’s gotta be worth something.
At this point I imagine that any remaining personal staff is pathological too. Anyone still working for him has no excuse left.
I believe they’re surprised. It’s a classic pattern with NPD: you keep assuming that you’re dealing with normal human motivations, and therefore rationalizing (i.e., misunderstanding) their behaviors.
His aids probably still believe that he has an agenda — that he has some sort of policy goals, and some sort of idea how he intends to accomplish them. They keep inferring what that might be from his words and actions, but they keep discovering that they somehow managed to get it wrong again. And are doomed to continue, as long as they assume that this thing they’re looking for even exists.
The fact that he literally has no motivations, goals, or principles of any kind, except to feed his ego and protect it from harm, is very hard to accept. Even once accepted, it’s very hard to avoid the habit of analyzing him as if he were a normal human. So they remain astonished that he keeps putting his head in the noose, not grasping that impeachment is a purely hypothetical threat (and one he believes himself more than smart enough to avoid), while the petty ego bruise of the day is very present and is indistinguishable from death by slow torture.