Politics National Security Council Rebuilding with Aides Aligned with MAGA

Sunday, April 20, 2025

The White House is starting to rebuild the NSC with aides that are staunchly aligned with Trump's agenda.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 04:33 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

In TrumpWelt, lagging, weak third-raters are perched at the top of the oleaginous pile.
*No one* can outshine the spray-painted felon to whom they doff caps and bend knees.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-20 06:52 AM

Morning Doc: The White House or the NSC may as well hang this sign outside their offices:

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-20 07:02 AM

lol
Welcome to the Monkey House!

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-20 08:13 AM

One of our DR colleagues uses the term "monkey with a machine gun" to describe our Lunatic-in-Chief sitting at the pinnacle of American power: i.dailymail.co.uk

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-20 08:21 AM

Apt description, Cariolanus.
No need to fear facts defeating "alternative facts" in that closed feedback loop.
Garbage in, garbage out.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-20 08:26 AM

Thanks, Doc, but we must credit one of our Fellow Travelers with that term.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-20 08:47 AM

... The White House is starting to rebuild the NSC with aides that are staunchly aligned with Trump's agenda. ...

So... Pres Trump will hear only what he wants to hear?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 05:53 PM

will hear only what he wants to hear?

And disregard the rest.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-20 06:16 PM

@#2

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (1981)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

...
I see a clinic full of cynics
Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
They're watching every move we make
We're all included on their list

The lunatics have taken over the asylum
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
...

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-20 07:02 PM

@#8 ... And disregard the rest. ...

From what I hear, Pres Trump seems to make decisions based upon two things:

1) what he wants to hear

and

2) the last person in his office to tell him (1)

And that policy seems to lead to his apparent whimsical approach to tariffs that we have seen.

I mean, why did Sec Bessett and Dir Hassett seem to prey upon a time when Mr Navarro was otherwise occupied to go into the Oval Office to persuade Pres Trump to back off tariffs?

Why did they seem to wait until Mr [~tariffs are great~] Navarro could not be present before they presented their case to Pres Trump?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-21 03:11 AM

Send in the clowns

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-22 12:37 AM

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