WH Official:I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got here-But this shit is hard

[kpete]

When Donald Trump gets angry, he fumes. “You can’t make them happy,” he said. “These people want more and more.”

He was complaining to friends that he had negotiated for weeks with Freedom Caucus members and he couldn’t believe the group was still against the health care legislation. Trump and his advisers were buzzing about making an enemies list and wanted to force a vote. But it was Trump, a man who hates to show weakness, who had to blink. As support flagged, the bill was shelved.

“I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got here,” one White House official said of these early months. “But this shit is hard.”


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/the-education-of-donald-trump-237669

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. "....dramatic military actions in Syria and Afghanistan." See? That's the problem right there. It

was all bullshit that accomplished nothing. Yet these ass kissers have to frame it as it's something to be proud of.

[maxsolomon]

2. Literally every Liberal in America knows this shit is hard

WE PAY ATTENTION. We know what cocknobs Republicans are.

[FakeNoose]

3. +1 good answer

[mr_lebowski]

15. Two young blokes, set to conquer the damn world ...

I love that gif, can't believe I've never seen it ...

[Docreed2003]

7. Deserves a second +1 and gif!

[FakeNoose]

16. Awesome

What is it about the British and their cool way of toasting?
So charming.

[Docreed2003]

18. Agree....I'm a jealous Yank!

[gratuitous]

4. Isn't that strange?

You don't just get to put some reluctant contractor on the shelf and move on to the next mark to see if he's any more gullible. It's like there's just one Congress, and if you can't come to some understanding with them, there isn't another one waiting in the wings to deal with. Unfair!

[Beartracks]

26. "Archaic rules! Archaic rules!"

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Next thing you know he will try and with-hold their govt. paycheck...

like his contractors..or maybe negotiate a bonus..

[femmocrat]

6. Who knew the government was so complicated?

Hillary did.

[Lyricalinklines]

20. Exactly! And she campaigned for the PRIVILEGE to SERVE!

[stopbush]

8. There are not enough hours in the day

nor days in the year to ever educate tRump.

[Leith]

9. Very Good Article

Full of examples of tRump & company's incompetency, stupidity, unpreparedness, inability to learn, and nonsensical spin to cover it all up.

We are so fucked.

[Mr. Ected]

10. A good segment of America thought electing an unqualified outsider would be a good idea

Their hatred for government led them to believe that a "successful" businessman would fare well as the President of the USA, and maybe even turn the economy around at the same time.

I'd rather have a veterinarian as my cardiologist than Trump as the leader of the free world.

[brush]

24. Noticed you put "successful" in quotes. We're still waiting for a successful one to give it a shot.

W wasn't either.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. ALL of them are clueless. Every one.

Remember Paul Ryan saying, after the health care debacle, that governing is harder than saying no?

'We were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. You just had to be against it. Now, in three months' time, we tried to go to a governing party where we actually had to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things,'

Yeah, being against things is REAL easy to do, and it's the only thing Republicans know how to do.

[Initech]

13. Like I keep saying:

Ever notice how the people who are against health care are the unhealthiest people on the planet?

[Initech]

12. Conservatives only run on the principal that they hate liberals.

And they don't even know why they hate us, they just do. They really are like the Joker from the Dark Knight - they are dogs chasing cars, they wouldn't know what to do with one if they caught it. And now they've finally caught it, and guess what? They don't know what to do with it! And they don't give a fuck either - all they want to do is keep their precious majority.

[FakeNoose]

17. I think they hate us because Rush told them to hate us

We're not even sure why Rush hates us, but I do know this:
Some very rich men have been paying Rush Limbaugh a lot of money for a long time.
That's why he keeps repeating his garbage on the radio for the last 25+ years.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Yeah, people want more & more. YOU were one of 'em, once, Trump! Remember?

Remember when no matter what Obama did, you criticized it for being wrong or not enough? Now you know....it's hard and it's not a dictatorship. You can't walk in and control the country with one brushstroke. There are three equal branches of govt, and there are all sorts of checks and balances on each of them.

And yes....ONE judge can stop your executive actions.

[Sunlei]

19. Republicans can't even finish the transition. Obamas people must have done ALL work past 8 yrs.

[AgadorSparticus]

21. You're not their boss. You can't FIRE them.

When you are a 1 trick pony that only knows how to strongarm, you are going to be quickly shit out of luck.

That is why the first 100 days is really more of a crash course in leadership 101.

[murielm99]

22. Did anyone else see how Colbert reacted to

"this shit?"

His said, "This shit - That's America." Then showed trump wearing a hat that said, "Make This Shit Great Again."

[Shoonra]

23. Knowing how reporters work, this unnamed WH official is probably Trump himself !

When reporters quote an "unnamed official" from some department, especially when it's immediately after an occasion when they've been in the same room with the Big Cheese, then usually the Unnamed who is admitting something unpleasant is Mister Cheese himself.

Trump thought being President was easy .... after all, a black man could do it. But then he discovered it takes hard work, every day, and he's parcelling out the assignments to others who also aren't used to hard work. Ben Carson, Rick Perry, the rest of the deplorables, are all determined to jam up the bureaucracy - and they should be good at that.

As for Trump's tax reform plan (it's hard to dignify such a sketch as a plan), from what I can figure my own taxes will go down by less than $100. At the same time I expect the prices of a great many necessities to skyrocket. Throw in a major new war and the next two Presidents (assuming the Republic survives #45) won't be able to dig us out.

[calimary]

25. Gee, ya think?

[Beartracks]

27. If only I could put the eye-roll smiley in this title line.

Oh, well, I'll put it here:

Why the f**k do Republicans think this shit is easy?

This goes part and parcel with their stupid notion that education, nuance, and being a "professional politician" are unnecessary.

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[3catwoman3]

28. But this shit is hard.

No shit, Sherlock, as the saying goes.

[Grins]

29. Snips from the article..

Snips...

&quot Trump says) he had negotiated for weeks with Freedom Caucus members and he couldn’t believe the group was still against the health care legislation. ... But it was Trump...who had to blink." - About the man whose specialty is the-makin'-o'-the-deals.

“(Trump is) transactional and makes calls based on his gut." - Ken Blackwell, Ohio's former state director of Voter Fraud.

Yeah, Ken. Because we all know how swell that worked out for the last guy who made decisions based on his gut; what was his name again...?. Jebus.

“I kind of pooh-poohed the experience stuff when I first got here, but this shit is hard.” - A White House official said of Trump's first 100-days. A sentence that should be trotted out every election!

[Virtual Burlesque]

30. "This shit" is as hard as Neurosurgery for Republicans:

Cut away too little and you still retain memories of your criminal activities rattling around in your skull.

Cut away too much and you can't remember how to finish the operation.