In case you haven't noticed, the whole operation is coming unstrung all at once, and it starts with the guy at the top. Over the last few days, in addition to traversing the landscape talking unmitigated rot with dubious syntax in front of steadily dwindling live audiences, the president has taken to sharing a snuff film on his social media platform. On Thursday, he retreated on the notion of live-streaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, thereby hanging Pete Hegseth out to dry, which is not altogether a bad thing, now that I think about it.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the administration, we had the disastrous debut of new press secretary Katie Zacharia, which has been followed by a torrent of leaks from inside the administration fitting her career for a shroud. There was the bungling dismissal of Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece, which was followed by nervous leaks from the administration as to whether Madame Guilfoyle will spill all the Trump family beans. There's a serious feud between former Trump parking garage lawyer Alina Habba and Richard Grenell over a multi-million donation earmarked for the Kennedy Center that allegedly has gone missing.
From Axios: Wiles’s departure would be an earthquake. And simply contemplating the idea of the president's picking a new chief of staff is flatly terrifying. (Mark Levin, come on down!) Meanwhile, we have the president's barnstorming. Here he is, helping Ohio GOP senatorial candidate Jon Husted.
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