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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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Trust your instincts Mr. President.
1 posted on 04/09/2018 5:21:31 AM PDT by McGruff
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Trump’s advisers, among them Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, were advocating for an ongoing U.S. military presence to provide stability. They aimed to rely on the same playbook they used last year in persuading Trump to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan indefinitely. They would paint a dire picture of a pullout, of regional chaos benefiting Russia and Iran, and the potential resurgence of the Islamic State group.

But even before they could begin their pitch in that meeting Tuesday, Trump headed them off, saying he wanted to remove U.S. troops immediately. The ensuing heated argument put new distance between the president and his team and left the military with a mandate, if not a formal order, to remove U.S. troops from Syria within six months.


2 posted on 04/09/2018 5:22:48 AM PDT by McGruff (Protect our border not Syria's.)
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To: McGruff

Trump trumps when Trump is Trump.

He is what he is, God help the people who don’t ‘get’ that and deal with it, no matter who they are or where they are on the political spectrum.


3 posted on 04/09/2018 5:27:03 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: McGruff

Well, that’s basically how Obama created ISIS.


4 posted on 04/09/2018 5:28:12 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: McGruff

That’s why we love him!

Hi McG! :-)


5 posted on 04/09/2018 5:31:04 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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To: McGruff

AP… nuff said.


6 posted on 04/09/2018 5:35:20 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: RedStateRocker
Trump trumps when Trump is Trump.

That's very good. I'm saving it.
7 posted on 04/09/2018 5:36:29 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: McGruff

Sounds like another president I knew of.


8 posted on 04/09/2018 6:08:33 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: sphinx

Russia wasn’t backing the local Govt in Iraq when ISIS was created.

Syria is a totally different issue. A nation we should of never gotten involved. We also would not of gotten involved in it except for Generalismo John McCain, and his yapping dog Lindsey Graham’s, need to play General.


9 posted on 04/09/2018 6:08:55 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: McGruff

Not once in the entire article do they present any actual facts.

A work of fiction straight from the writers head.


10 posted on 04/09/2018 6:12:43 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: McGruff

Some aides, convinced that Trump puts more stock in what he sees on TV than in his own aides’ advice, regularly phone prominent commentators and news hosts to provide talking points on everything from tax policy to Syria in hopes of influencing Trump.


Goodbye, ‘some aides’.


11 posted on 04/09/2018 6:15:06 AM PDT by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves)
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To: McGruff

...”Trust your instincts Mr. President.”...

We are sick of them, too, Mr. President. You now have 50,000,000 Twitter followers. Like the quoted poster, I think you should follow your instincts and tell us as much as you can through Twitter. You know what you know and are backed up out here by a lot of people far smarter than the D.C. crowd. And, some of those very smart people might be only middle class! Carry on!


12 posted on 04/09/2018 6:17:09 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To hell with it: Trump increasingly weary of staff advice

Constantly playing it safe by following "staff advice" is how the swamp was established.

13 posted on 04/09/2018 6:22:05 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Strzok and Page - The very definition of SEDITION and TREASON!)
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To: McGruff

Eff every dam one of the news media. And eff the scum who will not get behind this president.


14 posted on 04/09/2018 6:23:41 AM PDT by crz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

All-Partisan Associated Press shills generate yet another smear. Meanwhile:

Robert Wasinger Names Names, Denounces Anti-Trumpers in the Administration
breitbart | IAN MASON
Posted on 04/09/2018 4:48:22 AM PDT by davikkm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3645992/posts


15 posted on 04/09/2018 6:38:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Dump a half million of our most violent criminals there. Pay them. They’l feel at home.


16 posted on 04/09/2018 7:02:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: McGruff

Not sticking to the script was probably part of the script. When will the enemida learn?


17 posted on 04/09/2018 7:43:26 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: sphinx
Well, that’s basically how Obama created ISIS.

We're fighting on the side of ISIS in Syria. There are no "good guys" in that war. Put another way, Obama picked who we'd fight for. That's all you need to know.

Get out of there.

18 posted on 04/09/2018 7:50:58 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: McGruff

Where does AP and the “MSN” for that matter come up with all these fairy tails. Any main stream outlet spouting un-named inside WH sources is propagandizing plain and simple.


19 posted on 04/09/2018 8:04:03 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: McGruff

Trump has wised up. Good! We never should have been in Syria in the first place.


20 posted on 04/09/2018 8:22:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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