Lest you’re suffering Trump withdrawal symptoms, now that everyone has got bored with same as same as/mine’s bigger than yours, there’s going to be renewed excitement with the publication next week of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Leaks to date suggest that Steve Bannon is getting his vengeful boot in describing Don Jnrs’ June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower as treasonous.
Letting Bannon go was always a risk (better inside p***ing out, than outside p***ing in) and he’s making the most of it, pouring venom over Don Jnr and Ivanka/Jared. Relationship charts with all three have a tumultuous composite Sun square Uranus Pluto which is adept at collapsing structures, turning everything upside down and generally creating havoc. Ivanka especially since in her and SB’s case a vicious Mars is added into the mix. And on cue, both Jared and Don Jnr’s relationship with Bannon is taking a sharp dip this month with tr Neptune square the composite Mars, causing panic. With Jared ploughing through very heavy seas vis a vis Bannon come mid March onwards. Jared does, of course have tr Pluto grinding its way across his Sun from next month on and off till late 2019.
Himself, the overlord, is certainly not enchanted with Bannon this month with tr Neptune returning to oppose their composite Mercury, moving on to oppose the composite Sun Saturn from early March, so relations can only deteriorate.
Just to add to the madhouse mood, the Foreign Policy team (is there one?) are evidently at each other’s throats with National Security adviser HR McMaster and Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, warring constantly. That is hardly surprising since their relationship chart has a hostile, power-struggling Mars Pluto square Sun – and that was never going to work. It’ll come to a head by mid April, if Tillerson stays around. Not that Donald Trump finds McMaster an easy bed-fellow with a composite Mars Uranus square Neptune as their chemistry, which was at boiling point in December and again through this year.
Sorry Solaia, despite your calculations, I think that Trump had slipped over the edge when he decided to run for the USA Presidential elections. He keeps saying that he never thought that he’d win, even though he called on the devil to help him. Now, he’s physically showing his mental deficits, from your description.
Revelations from Wolff for “Hollywood Reporter” today: Trump staff told Wolff (or said so in his presence) that Trump had gone from repeating the same story three times in 30 minutes to three times in 10 minutes. Wolff also says “a heavily made up Trump failed to recognize long time friends at Mar-A-Lago” on Holidays. Make what you want of it, Wolff doesn’t have the best of professional reputations, and his access to WH was cut when Priebus went out. But apparently, Wolff has Bannon on tape, Trump has sent a cease-and-desist to Wolff’s publisher and WH is drafting a mobile device ban, showing there is some truth to this. Trump’s tweets have been obviously written by someone else for the past two weeks or so (same nonsense, but you do not have to be an FBI linguist to spot differences in linguistic expression), and then there was that white van blocking journalists from covering his golfing. I honestly don’t know what else than covering his golf skills have deteriorated that could have been about, since he is proud of his golfing.
If these are signs of his deterioting cognitive functions, and this is the rate it’s happening, he’ll have 2 years, max, before needing hospitalization.
Thank you Solaia. This book is definitely going to have an impact.
Those who are Trumpers should hope exposing his issues will help him get the care he needs.
The Trumpeters will simply shrug it all off as “more fake news”.
So right, larryc. You rock!
I’m not counting on Trumpeters or his “Court” on getting him help, either. His own family isn’t doing anything but enabling. What concerns me is that we had this situation too, in my country, with a (too) long time President slowly loosing it during his last two 6 year terms. People were shielding him, and he only left the office after collapsing on a State visit and being so permanently incapacitated he was hardly seen in public anymore.
They were obviously different times – with no internet and press seriously selfcensoring due to concerns with The Soviets (who knew just what was going on, anyhow, their KGB man here was one of the best spies, ever, according to Cold War Historians). But what’s similar is how “The Entourage” handled it. The President here has Adjutants, who are Military. They do not rank high officially at the time they serve, but have since risen to the very highest positions in Military. And these Adjutants were definitely taking the kind of role Kelly does now in Trump Admin, according to Wolff.
“Trump says Steve Bannon has ‘lost his mind'” I guess Trump’s button is bigger than everyone’s.
You can’t make this up.
Makes me feel like an ancient Roman must have felt hearing the latest gossip about Nero.