Leaky, Leaky

Where IS John Kelly? Maybe he's realized it's best to let things leak.

Publicly, the White House has pushed back against Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker suggesting Trump must be managed like a toddler – he called the White House an “adult day care center” on Twitter Sunday. In a separate New York Times interview, Corker said aides are forced to spend their days trying to keep the president from going off the rails.

  Politico

I don't know whether Corker meant that as Trump is a toddler, or Trump has dementia - either way works.

“You either had to just convince him something better was his idea or ignore what he said to do and hoped he forgot about it the next day,” said Barbara Res, a former executive in the Trump Organization.

Trump, several advisers and aides said, sometimes comes into the Oval Office worked into a lather from talking to friends or watching TV coverage in the morning. Sometimes, a side conversation with an aide like Stephen Miller on immigration or a TV host like Sean Hannity would set him off.

Which is why Kelly stopped letting people just drop in.

Then, staffers would step in to avert a rash decision by calming him down. At times, new information would be shared, like charts on how farmers might feel about ending the North American Free Trade Agreement – or how his base might react negatively to an idea, like the verbal deal he struck with Democrats on immigration last month.

So, you'd think they'd realize they're wasting their breath since he ignored both those points.

Sometimes, advisers and people who know him well deliberately engage the media. Corker has told others on Capitol Hill that Trump doesn’t listen unless he hears the criticism on TV or reads it in the paper.

Come on. He doesn't read the paper.

White House officials say Trump asks sharp questions and has a better political sense on many occasions than they do.

That's because the idiot hired a bunch of other idiots.

“But he reacts to everything, he is always reacting,” Res said, an observation mirrored by many White House aides, who say they feel every day begins at a deficit.

Reacts to everything he perceives as personal.

Kelly has told others he can’t control the president – but he can control much of what gets to the president. Staff say Trump is already chafing at the procedures he has put in place.

Trump has, on several occasions, walked down to the Oval Office in the morning and told aides he knew they didn’t like the tweets he’d sent earlier.

“They’re not presidential, I know,” he said, with a mocking tone on the word “presidential,” according to one person familiar with his comments.

Then, the next day, he’d wake up and send more tweets they didn’t like.

He thrives on being contrary. Yep, toddler.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.