Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
'No Adult Supervision': Concern Escalates As Trump Increasingly Appears out of Touch [View all]
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-badash/113391/no-adult-supervision-concern-escalates-as-trump-increasingly-appears-out-of-touch‘No Adult Supervision’: Concern Escalates As Trump Increasingly Appears out of Touch
by David Badash | March 28, 2025 - 5:46am
— from Alternet
snip//
Calling him “President Bystander,” MSNBC’s Steve Benen writes, “Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House.”
Pointing to the Signal texts, Benen says one text “chain featured the White House’s Stephen Miller adding, in apparent reference to the attack plan, ‘As I heard it, the president was clear: green light.'”
“The problems should be obvious,” Benen added. “Vance was uncertain about Trump’s knowledge of the relevant details, and one of the president’s right-hand loyalists added an ‘as I heard it’ qualifier to the commander in chief’s directive about a deadly military operation abroad.”
The Commander-in-Chief appears to have been uninvolved in important portions of the planning of the military strike. Based on the Signal texts, it appears likely that he was absent from key portions of the decision making process.
Jared Ryan Sears, who writes The Pragmatic Humanist, offered this observation.
“Trump didn’t know about the Signal group chat or that a reporter was included. Trump says he didn’t sign the authorization to use the Enemy Alien Act to deport people without due process. His signature was on the document. Trump didn’t know that US service members went missing during a training exercise in Lithuania,” he noted. “What kind of leader knows nothing about what his administration is doing, what he himself is doing, and what is happening with the military he is in charge of?”
Attorney, Republican, and former U.S. Representative Barbara Comstock on Wednesday shared her concerns via social media.
“There is no adult supervision at the White House. Grandpa does not know what is going on except on the Golf Channel or if someone takes a bad picture of him. Where’s Melania? Does he have a COS or caretaker?”
23 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read