When All You Can Do Is Shake Your Head…
[guest post by Dana]
Today’s daily serving of negative Trump stories at the New York Times began with a dramatic serving of chaos in an article titled, “Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team In A State Of Disarray” .
Oh the drama!!
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world…
One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power. That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders…
Despite the haphazard nature of Mr. Trump’s early calls with world leaders, his advisers said the transition team was not suffering unusual setbacks. They argued that they were hard at work behind the scenes dealing with the same troubles that incoming presidents have faced for decades…
And so forth.
President-elect Trump pushed back on the NYT tonight and reassured the American people that the transition is going according to plan. And he also let it slip that his new job will be a spin-off of his old one. Think the Ultimate Celebrity Apprentice…
–Dana
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: Hillary’s go-to reporter Maggie Haberman strikes again! Her name is on the byline . . .
Let the games begin.
Dana (d17a61) — 11/15/2016 @ 9:13 pmoff topic:
I’ve heard a lot about paid protestors lately.
1. Could Portland sue employer to recover costs?
2. Could insurance companies sue to recover losses if it can be proved a paid protestor caused the loss
3. How about a pedestrian, motorist etc who gets attacked?
Just wondering what my exposure will be when I start hiring folks to protest the upcoming Obama pardons
My guess is that the entity employing the protestors has set some good lawyers on creating protection
steveg (5508fb) — 11/15/2016 @ 9:23 pmAnd he ate dinner at 21, which is an expensive restaurant, and didn’t tell reporters!! And people gave him a standing ovation! And then he told people there, I’ll cut your taxes!!
OMG, he’s so evil!
All as reported by an unbiased NBC news editor, along with a string of snarky remarks about him. https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/798738692705816576/video/1
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/15/2016 @ 10:01 pmUPDATE BY PATTERICO: Hillary’s go-to reporter Maggie Haberman strikes again! Her name is on the byline . . .
Patterico (115b1f) — 11/15/2016 @ 11:14 pmSeems that I can find claims that the Trump transition team is in disarray rather closer than the NY Times.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 11/16/2016 @ 12:06 amR.I.P. Mose Allison, jazz/blues pianist & songwriter
Icy (47f724) — 11/16/2016 @ 1:27 amdisarray? By this time during the Obama transition, Momjeans had managed to insult Nancy Reagan, bring lawsuit against Rob Bobaglivich for auctioning off the Illinois Senate seat, enter a feud with the DNC chairman, and have his first of many resignations of cabinet picks [Bill Richardson] resign under the cloud of corruption charges.
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/16/2016 @ 1:47 amFor anyone that has been paying attention for the past 18 months, Trump’s tweet is as predictable as saying the sun will rise in the east. Tell Trump that his temperament makes him unfit to serve as POTUS? He literally responds with “I have the best temperament.” Report that his transition team is very disorganized? Here comes Trump with “very organized process taking place.” In other words, just like A POLITICIAN his first instinct is always to lie & deny.
Icy (47f724) — 11/16/2016 @ 1:51 amOr, he just might be telling it like he sees it. Trump along with his temperment won the presidency – argue with that kind of success if you will, but be prepared but have your own temperament questioned.
As for media reports ‘Trump’s x’tion team is disorganized’ – for months on end that’s what they all said about his campaign staff and we know how that turned out.
ropelight (0ee51f) — 11/16/2016 @ 5:07 am@ropelight:for months on end that’s what they all said about his campaign staff and we know how that turned out.
At this rate, his missteps and gaffes will make him Holy Roman Emperor in four years.
Gabriel Hanna (4f5ff1) — 11/16/2016 @ 5:12 am“CHANGE: All lobbyists have been cut from Trump’s transition team:
Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly ordered the removal of all lobbyists from president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, The Wall Street Journal wrote on Tuesday night.
The decision was one of Pence’s first since formally taking over the team’s lead role. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was abruptly dismissed from the post last week.
Seems like a good start.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/249346/
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 5:59 amGive Pence a chance.
ropelight (0ee51f) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:18 amWell,
It is under the topic of head shaking:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/android-backdoor-is-secretly-sending-user-data-and-texts-to-china-and-no-one-knows-why/?ftag=TREe331754&bhid=21964304244907027140558800646705
I told the world, right here on PP,
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:32 amthat it was a bad idea to let what were once IBM computers to be made in China,
but did anybody listen?????
And for anyone who has been paying attention if Trump tweeted that Icy and the boys would post 47 comments “proving” the sun rises in the west, it only rose in the east when Trump was a democrat, he’s still a democrat, liberals from New York lie about the sun all the time, he talked about groping the sun’s pussy and he’s no different than Obama who believed he sun rose in the south.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:38 amThx, Icy.
For Mose… https://youtu.be/bpTSVy3yzts
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:38 amLiberals – and #NeverTrump – don’t embarrass easy.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:40 amThat’s unsettling, MD in Philly.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:42 amYes, but is it in as much disarray as his disorganized and failing campaign?
David Pittelli (0a4463) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:48 amOn the bright side, China’s government techies are reading things off my Samsung that’s censored over there.
你好，極權共產主義獨裁的奴隸。
nk (dbc370) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:53 amHuffington/AOL is promoting the dismissal of the Christie loyalists and lobbyists from the transition team as “a Stalinist purge.”
(Never mind that ‘a Stalinist purge’ is one where people are actually executed.)
Huffington/AOL is also saying that Trump’s escape to dinner on Tuesday is indicative that his Administration will be the most un-transparent of all time. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:55 amWhat they mean is that they don’t expect the Trump Administration to be corroborating with the NY Times the way that Team Barack and Team Hillary have done.
Although it’s slightly off topic, I read that Nancy Pelosi may be on the way out. I warn her that
Bar Sinister (f5ce19) — 11/16/2016 @ 7:05 amshe needs to be particularly cautious if approached by a little girl named Dorothy from Kansas
carrying a bucket of water.
Tech judo. great, nk.
maybe we should start writing stuff in Arabic, Farsi, Pashtun, etc.
“Computer Free World” (as in Radio Free Europe)
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/16/2016 @ 7:05 amYou know what the media is flagrantly omitting to report? There have been two days of very very violent riots in Greece protesting America and President Obama’s visit there. The foreign press has been covering it while America’s journalists are whining about President-elect Trump’s dinner arrangements.
elissa (ead691) — 11/16/2016 @ 7:18 amelissa (23) http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/europe/greece-athens-obama-protests/index.html
Tillman (a95660) — 11/16/2016 @ 7:45 amGreetings:
“All the news that fits our narrative”.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:04 amNow Trump is being criticized for having a private dinner with his family.
AZ Bob (f7a491) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:13 amIf Pelosi loses her post, that will be a sign of much deeper problems in the Dem congressional delegation than is already thought to be the case.
There are 194 Dems in the House after the 2016 elections.
California has 39 Democrats in the House of Representatives.
In the next Congress there will be 84 female Representatives, with 62 of them being Democrats.
And Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have the support, with California and women largely behind her, to get 98 votes. Calif’s delegation alone gives her over 40% of the votes she needs.
If she goes down, and Keith Ellison in fact becomes the DNC chair, its Bernie Sanders’ party.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:31 amOh, yes, and since Patrick and a few other deplorable, unteachable Angelinos no longer subscribe, just to make your day: L.A. Times’ headline today, 11/16, “What to make of Trump one week in? He’s unpredictable.” A few pages in, “Trump Transition Still Stumbling.” Editorial page article: “The war on ‘sanctuary cities,'” subheading, “Despite president-elect Trump’s misguided threat of action, the LAPD holds true to its mission.” Their bill is on my desk. Finally deciding to cancel subscription. Have been threatening myself to do that for past few years. Not the paper we grew up with. Do get a local paper which is fair & balanced and has won too many journalism awards to count.
Judy Eaton (f6efc7) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:31 amIt looks at this point like in general, there will be a few people Trump knows and trusts but the rest of the Administration appointees – most of the 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 or 4,000 slots, depending on who’s doing the estimating – will be picked by Mike Pence, or by people he selects. (Except maybe for people picked by the people Donald Trump personally picks who make their own hires.)
Yesterday he first got rid of all the people brought in by Chris Christie (not Chris Chrisie himself, whose still on the transition staff, one of half a dozen on the second level, because he was a personal selection by Donald Trump)
This included Mike Rogers, who was maybe headed toward being CIA Director.
Then Mike Pence dismissed all the lobbyists. And he signed the memorandum of Understanding with the Obama Administration.
Sammy Finkelman (db3b66) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:41 amYeah, Tillman–Here’s how the English videographers and press are reporting the “mostly peaceful” Greek anti-America protest that was ruined by “a few” violent anarchists.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/732682/Barack-Obama-Greece-Athens-riot-protest-Alexis-Tsipras-politics-economy-European-Union
elissa (ead691) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:47 amWhat I don’t understand is how everybody can jump the gun.
Donald trump has nt bene formally elected predident yet. Yes, we all know, but informally. Yet there’s a very formal transition process. (in the year 2,000 they started it about December 12)
But what would they do if the election went into the House of Representatives?
The House Republicans just elected their Speaker for the next Congress. (Or candidate for Speaker)
Now, not only have they not been sworn in, but their elections probably haven’t even been certified. There could even be one or two mistakes, and even undecided elections.
It’s all informal knowledge, yet some very formal things are taking place. This goes back maybe already now 20 to 40 years.
Sammy Finkelman (db3b66) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:47 amThey’re all from the two communist parties in Greece, maybe 5,000 “protesters” altogether. Same types you see at NATO summits and G8 summits. They “protested” Clinton too. Dog bites man.
nk (dbc370) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:50 amGet real, Sammy. Formal/informal/certified/shmertified. The Illuminati decided who would be President and who would be in Congress a year ago.
nk (dbc370) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:54 amIt’s plain to see, the Greeks don’t want no freaks!
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 8:57 am“If she [Pelosi] goes down, and Keith Ellison in fact becomes the DNC chair, its Bernie Sanders’ party.”
That’s teh Trifecta… the first of which is particularly horrifying to ponder.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:00 amI cannot get my head around the possibility that after last Tuesday they would actually think it’s a smart idea to turn the party’s functionality and messaging over to Keith Ellison.
elissa (ead691) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:07 amAnd for anyone who has been paying attention if Trump tweeted that Icy and the boys would post 47 comments “proving” the sun rises in the west, it only rose in the east when Trump was a democrat, he’s still a democrat, liberals from New York lie about the sun all the time, he talked about groping the sun’s pussy and he’s no different than Obama who believed he sun rose in the south.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:38 am
— Are you denying that Trump’s pattern every damn time is that he responds to reports or charges of “Trump is faltering/failing at X” with “There’s nothing wrong with X; I will be the best at X”?
Icy (47f724) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:09 amHe denies accusations of incompetence and follows it with an unsupportable claim of total competence. This is WHAT HE DOES.
Icy (47f724) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:12 amOut: Rabid
In: Give IT 6 months
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:21 am38… Trump is being kind. He ought to also be telling them to go take a flying fu*k at the moon.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:23 amWe’re going to see a lot of Dead Parrot Sketches over the next four years, Icy.
nk (dbc370) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:32 am“Mr. President, Russia has invaded Poland.”
“No, it hasn’t.”
“There are Russian tanks in Warsaw.”
“No, there are not.”
“Here are the pictures.”
“They’re rigged.”
The NYT has apparently forgotten Bill Clinton’s Clown Car Transition. I recommend reading the brief excerpt from historian John Burke’s book on Presidential transitions to gain a comparative insight. This Wiki on Confirmations of Barack Obama’s Cabinet provides his announcement dates for his picks as well as a nice list of people to whom we will be bidding rather unfond farenotsowells.
I’m pretty sure PROPAGANDISTS IN DISARRAY will be the most accurate headline for the foreseeable future.
Rick Ballard (bca473) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:40 am38… Trump is being kind. He ought to also be telling them to go take a flying fu*k at the moon.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:23 am
— And that would be my first instinct as well, but what he should really be doing is IGNORING them.
Icy (47f724) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:42 amPoint taken, Icy. He’ll never be a recipient of the sort of free ride an Obama or Clinton presidency would receive. Perhaps the best role model would be to play it like Reagan did, go around the media and take his case to the people.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 9:55 amFor sure, MD.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/lenovo-and-superfish-penetrate-the-heart-of-a-computers-security/
(P.S. elissa, as soon as they can blame the Greek riots on Trump, they will report it!)
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:11 amAnd it took two weeks for Obama to nominate his first cabinet member, turbo Tim geithner, remember this was at the heart of the financial crises.
There are no named sources in that story, so one has to consider it fiction.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:22 amObama won the election a few days earlier in November than Trump and didn’t make his first selection until end of November. If we get to first or second week of December and nothing has been done, he’s late.
Colonel Haiku (32652f) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:35 amFacts how do they work, same for perspective and context.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:43 amWhat was interesting is may who is stalling on need it was one of the last to congratulate him.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:55 amThe media grousing about Roy O’Bannon.
Remember at this point in Foodstamp’s tranny, he had John (Think Progress) Podesta and a Craig’s List want ad.
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:58 amPersonal wanted – previous experience with the Clinton Admin preferable by not a requirement.
submit resumes to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
I’m not denying a damn thing. I’m pointing out you and others are allowing Trump to live rent free in your head. And that redundant reply proves it. You just can’t stop b!tchin’ about Trump. How would you prefer he respond, perhaps: at this point what difference does it make?
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:01 am“All we are sayyyyyyyyyyy-ing, is give Pence a chaaaaaance.”
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:09 amNarciso,
Have you read anything a regarding who is taking point as liaison with the Senate? I know Sessions is in tight but McCain is already making noise and there are others who have no fear of blocking appointments.
Rick Ballard (bca473) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:10 amI would bet the former over the latter, but the bleeding newsprint makes it hard to tell. There is some agita over Giuliani’s connection to Qatar and russia, and of course mek, even though everyone and their brother can be with niac, the mullahs mouthpiece.
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:20 amWell, Patricia,
if it wasn’t for you,
no one would tell me anything.
What you don’t know can hurt you.
Rushbo says that the press is arguing that Trump has “already started being non-transparent” by not telling the press when and where he was going to dinner last night…
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:21 amThe same press who apparently had no problem with “the most transparent administration evah” having the president use the off grid email of the SoS with a pseudonym.
There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Maggie and her media buds are afloat in the lifeboats, angry and bargaining for rescue. By January 20, expect full acceptance that Hillary’s loss has sunk in.
“Because we were so sure! Because even though it’s happened, it’s still unbelieveable! I don’t think I’ll ever feel sure again, about anything”! – Second Officer Lightoller [Kenneth More] ‘A Night To Remember’ 1958
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/16/2016 @ 12:38 pmThere is extreme anti-Americanism in Greece – it has been around since the 1960s – and earlier. There are longstanding ties between the anti-Americans and Russia.
They were protesting the United States. They charge the U.S. with imaginary misdeeds. These people didn’t even notice there had been an election – it’s all the same to them.
Sammy Finkelman (db3b66) — 11/16/2016 @ 1:11 pmWait, so it’s Trump’s fault that foreign leaders are calling random phone numbers in Trump Tower? Maybe they should track down his phone number instead of “blindly dialing.”
Joshua K. (9ede0e) — 11/16/2016 @ 3:44 pmMemo to: The Donald-elect
Subject: Eat me
’21’ is stylish but Gallaghers on 52nd is da-place to go for the best steak dinner in Midtown.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/16/2016 @ 5:57 pmThis does not give credit to the LA Times.
After reporting the election victory as a result of “Fury” and “Anger” (its always “angry” white guys, versus impassioned good guys, we get:
Nov 16, “What to make of Trump one week in? He’s Unpredictable,” by LAT’s Cathleen Decker, who managed the assault on Meg Whitman in 2010 for a terminated maid.
“Uncertainty reigns because Trump came into office riding the anger of an electorate whose resentments he correctly assessed rather than because Americans fully embraced his policy positions.”
See? Only angry people supported Trump. And over anything like the Wall, immigration, trade or making NATO freeloaders pay their fair share. No issues motivated them! No mandate here!
So we need some anonymous sources to tell us that Trump is really dumb:
(Nov 15), “Obama Takes on Role as Tutor in Chief.” Trump needs to be tutored by the Master.
” . . . after Obama’s first face-to-face meeting with Trump, after which several senior White House officials expressed surprise at the extent to which Trump and his aides seemed unprepared for the task ahead.”
And: “Given that apparent gulf between Trump’s current state and preparedness to take the oath of office, Obama stepped in.”
LAT moves ahead, unabashed, unprofitable, largely unread except when I find it on a Starbucks table.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd (5e0a82) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:00 pmGreece has become so anti American the left has moved Greece up on the list of preferred immigrants.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:13 pmwell the rule of the colonels probably had a little to do with it, then Papandreou openly embraced the soviet union and the Palestinians, in not necessarily that order
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:22 pmthe truth sometimes slips past the squirrels,
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/799032308250660866
narciso (d1f714) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:24 pmI remember the opening ceremonies of the Athens olympics when the American team marched into the stadium. The Greeks cheered like they were the return of the prodigal son.
papertiger (c8116c) — 11/16/2016 @ 6:45 pmYou just can’t stop b!tchin’ about Trump. How would you prefer he respond, perhaps: at this point what difference does it make?
Icy (1a5e13) — 11/16/2016 @ 10:55 pmRev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/16/2016 @ 11:01 am
— 1) I will stop bitching about Trump when he stops behaving like a bitch.
2) I would prefer that he respond by ignoring his critics and doing a good job.