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Some funny things about Bannon and Trump in Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/bo ... 569a1a2c6b

Trump was swept to power as the anti-establishment president who would up-end the way politics was played. And that meant filling the White House with personalities who were not part of the Washington elite.

The big problem with that, as the book makes painfully clear, is that the people he installed were woefully inept at running an administration. Be it in media strategy, congressional tactics or policy development, Trump’s band of political rookies lurched from crisis to crisis with no clue about how to turn things around.

Wolff says that the President refuses to read anything, is unable to pay attention during crucial briefings and has no interest in legislation.

“To say that he knew nothing — nothing at all — about the basic intellectual foundations of the job was a comic understatement,” the book says.

For example, adviser Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to Trump and this is what happened.

“I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head,” Nunberg said.

Wolff writes that Trump lacks the “executive function” to do the job.

“His brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his new job.

“He had no ability to plan and organise and pay attention and switch focus ... on the most basic level he simply could not link cause and effect.”

Trump’s former deputy chief of staff Kate Walsh is on the record saying that trying to set an agenda was “like trying to figure out what a child wants”.

Trump’s loose lips in shooting his mouth off on the phone meant his true thoughts about his advisers quickly circulated through Washington.

“Bannon was disloyal (not to mention he always looks like s**t). Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short — a m***et). Kushner was a suck-up. [Sean] Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). [Kellyanne] Conway was a crybaby,” Trump would say, according to Wolff.

And his closest advisers returned serve and told others what they really thought about the President.

“He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid,” Trump’s business ally Tom Barrack said.

Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Priebus called him an “idiot”; National Economic Council director Gary Cohn called him “dumb as s**t”; national security adviser HR McMaster called him a “dope”.

I ALMOST want to read this book for the laughs.. but I have so many other books on my reading list.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I think the whole thing is about selling books. I don't think Bannnon will ever do anything more than play around for publicity. People will gobble it up of course and he'll be laughing at them all the way to the bank.

Bannon is a pretty serious Alt-Righter.

I don't think Trump is an Alt-Righter. He's just some guy who wants to be the boss, and hates it when people doubt his executive abilities.

politics can make for some odd bedfellows.