Donald Trump reveals his last ditch plan to save himself: fire everyone!
In the past ten days alone, Donald Trump has chased away his closest adviser Hope Hicks and his top economic adviser Gary Cohn. To date he’s lost dozens of his own handpicked senior White House advisers and officials, either because they’ve resigned in scandal, or he’s scapegoated them to try to keep his failing administration afloat. Now that his entire life is on fire, Trump is floating a new plan: fire almost literally everyone who’s left.
We’ve long been hearing scattered reports, seemingly planted by Trump himself, that he plans to fire Chief of Staff John Kelly, or fire National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, or nudge his son-in-law Jared Kushner out the door, or even push his daughter Ivanka into resigning. Over the past two weeks, Trump’s already-bleak fortunes have taken an even darker turn. Leaks indicate that Robert Mueller has him nailed on everything under the sun, and that more plea deals are being cut against him by the day.
So now Trump has a new plan. He’s vowing to oust Kelly, McMaster, Jared, Ivanka, and every other relevant adviser left in the building, according to a new Vanity Fair profile (link). This would leave Trump with no one left. He would be bringing in all new people. And since he only seems to trust people from his own past, that would seemingly point to a new White House staff consisting of the people from his campaign who were considered too crappy to be added to his White House staff the first time around.
We should point out that Trump often floats these kinds of plans that involve bold and drastic action on his part, and he rarely follows through on them. Instead he makes tepid moves, and the closest he comes to firing people from his White House is when he succeeds in annoying them into resigning. So this doesn’t mean he’s actually going to get rid of any of these people. But now we know he’s reached the point where he’s wandering around the White House fantasizing aloud about scapegoating everyone who’s left, including his own family. And he wonders why so many of his own people are cutting plea deals against him.
