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To hell with it: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice
AP ^ | 4/9/2018 | ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN

Posted on 04/09/2018 5:21:30 AM PDT by McGruff

The speech was written. A cast of relatable Americans with emotional stories was standing by to reinforce the message. But President Donald Trump was in no mood to play along.

“The hell with it,” Trump said, recounting the scene with his aides to a West Virginia crowd last week, Trump tossed the staff-prepared remarks on tax cuts in the air and ducked as the paper fluttered to the floor. “I said, ‘This is boring, come on.’ Tell it like it is.”

This president has never been one to stick to a script, but that abandoned speech illustrates a new phase in Trump’s presidency. He is increasingly at odds with his staff — and growing wise to their tactics.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 115th; ap; incometaxes; jillcolvin; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; trump45; trumpcabinet; westvirginia; zekemiller
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To: pepsi_junkie

We are the puppets being played by agreeing to fight for Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey hoping that they’ll get the pipeline to run through Syria. Common — most of us know this.


21 posted on 04/09/2018 8:39:15 AM PDT by happytrumper
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To: McGruff

PDJT doesn’t need staff, doesn’t need advice, doesn’t even need a briefcase or a pair of reading glasses.

Fire them all, Mr. Prez, and run the WH just the way you always ran your highly successful businesses.

That’ll show ‘em!


22 posted on 04/09/2018 8:47:32 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: jazzlite

Quit listening to birds looking to put a lot of money feathers in their nest. CDC is listening to 2 Krebs and Klodony both using decade old data and lumping all OD’s in, doesn’t matter what the drug is to prove their FAKE CRISIS”. They LIE TO YOU MR. PRESIDENT! To make Conservatives MAD so they will vote Dem next election.


23 posted on 04/09/2018 9:12:44 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: McGruff

translation: He’s tired of getting sandbagged by Swamp plants.


24 posted on 04/09/2018 9:12:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: McGruff

Sarah Palin seems to be available.


25 posted on 04/09/2018 9:14:15 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

The whole damned country isn’t worth the blood of one American serviceman or a single taxpayer dollar.

Leave. Today.


26 posted on 04/09/2018 9:28:01 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: VTenigma

I think it more simple to merely completely ignore anything coming from ‘unnamed sources’. On rare occasion truth comes from such, but only rarely.


27 posted on 04/09/2018 9:30:10 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: McGruff
Reminds me of an old National Lampoon's Radio Dinner song:

Give Syria back to the Syrians,
Give Lappland back to the Lapps,
Give Ireland back to the Irish,
And Yoko back to the Japs!

28 posted on 04/09/2018 9:53:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (If white privilege is real, why do we have millions of poor white people?)
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