Another article about WH implosion

The West Wing came to a virtual standstill yesterday after The Washington Post published the first excerpts of Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, Fear. The book by the veteran White House chronicler portrays Donald Trump as an unhinged and ill-informed commander in chief surrounded by aides who doubt his intelligence and question his fitness for office. “It’s pandemonium. He literally isn’t talking to anyone. He’s canceled meetings and is on the phone calling up his friends,” one source said. Current and former staffers, meanwhile, pointed fingers in all directions as they sought to deflect blame for the damaging leaks.

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Two sources told me Trump is furious at the portions of the book that describe administration officials questioning his intelligence and emotional stability.

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Trump is also outraged that the book portrays aides as believing they are the grown-ups protecting the country from his dangerous impulses.

  Vanity Fair

And somebody just dropped a bomb in the NYT editorial pages saying that very thing.

Buckle up.

Two sources said Trump is particularly angry with former economic adviser Gary Cohn, who is revealed in the book to have snatched a letter off Trump’s desk to protect “national security.” [...] One source said Cohn called up his former colleagues to ask them how he came off in the book. “Gary wanted to make sure he didn’t compromise himself that much,” a source who spoke with Cohn said. (Cohn declined to comment.)

Makes you wonder if Cohn wrote that op-ed.

“It’s bad and it’s going to get worse,” a former West Wing staffer said. An outside adviser added, “Everybody on the inside knows it’s true. It’s just Fox News people who don’t want to admit how crazy he is.” Kelly and Mattis issued strong statements denying the quotes attributed to them, but two former administration officials said the book has rekindled Trump’s desire to fire both officials after the midterms.

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“You can normally only do 10 percent of what he tells you to do. Ninety percent is fucking crazy,” a former West Wing official said, fretting about what Trump may instruct aides to do.

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Even Trump’s family is concerned the president is in deep trouble. After attending John McCain’s funeral, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump told Trump he needs to get control of himself. A person briefed on the conversation recalled, “Jared told him if they’re going to last in Washington they can’t be this far off the mark with the establishment.”

I'd like to hear what Trump said to them.

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