Bolton Fired

As has been expected for a while, National Security Advisor John "Loose Bolt" Bolton (with his mustache, Gen. Snowball) has been dismissed from the spiraling- out- of- control White (Supremacist) House:

John Bolton ― who was notoriously hawkish with his strategy on Iran, North Korea and Syria ― will leave his position as White House national security adviser.

“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,” President Donald Trump announced Tuesday in a pair of tweets. “I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore ... I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning.”

Doubtless Trump's most recent rationale for defenestrating Loose Bolt was the widely- reported rift  in the regime (leaked by Loose Bolt or his peeps?) over Trump's desire for a grip- and- grin meeting with Taliban emissaries at Camp David on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary to announce... "an agreement in principle."  Loose Bolt made it clear he found the meeting plan repugnant. Also, the howls from Loose Bolt's Republican neo- con allies in Congress like Rep. Liz "Daddy's Little Lizard" Cheney added further embarrassment to Trump and his toadies who were caught flat- footed when the Taliban continued to blow things up in Afghanistan.  Dear Leader Man Baby can't have any public dissension in the ranks!  Not that there is any!  Why, just yesterday he said,

A lot of Fake News is being reported that I overruled the VP and various advisers on a potential Camp David meeting with the Taliban. This Story is False! I always think it is good to meet and talk, but in this case I decided not to. The Dishonest Media likes to create...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2019

...the look of turmoil in the White House, of which there is none. I view much of the media as simply an arm of the Democrat Party. They are corrupt, and they are extremely upset at how well our Country is doing under MY Leadership, including...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2019

No turmoil!  No turmoil! Quick, look over there!

Given the declining seriousness, independence and gravitas of Trump's top advisors since January 2017,  we should expect Loose Bolt's replacement to be even further down on the food chain.

Economic Advisor Cohn Abruptly Quits [UPDATED]

The White (Supremacist) House's National Economic Council director Gary Cohn resigned this afternoon after losing an internal battle over the imposition of import tariffs on steel and aluminum announced by con man and Very Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump. Cohn had come close to resigning last summer, after Rump's "very fine people" remark about neo-Nazis and white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, VA. He was also on the losing end of several fights over economic and other issues:

"Earlier in the administration, Cohn found himself on the losing side of several contentious battles with Trump’s more nationalist-minded aides — including then-chief strategist Steve Bannon — on policies including the announcement of plans to pull the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Cohn had also hoped to steer more than $1 trillion into infrastructure investments. But the multiple rollouts by the Trump administration failed to gain traction, often overshadowed by controversial statements made by the president himself."

Cohn's resignation came just hours after a delusional Rump, denying widespread reports of "chaos" and low morale in the West Wing, said that:

"Everybody wants to work in the White House....They all want a piece of that Oval Office. They want a piece of the West Wing. And not only in terms of, it looks great on their resume — it's just a great place to work....So many people want to come in. I have a choice of anybody."

The problem with that is that fewer and fewer people want to choose him.

UPDATE: The stock market's worried.

Tweets Of The Day: Don't Worry -- Adults On Board!

The media is happy to see that having Gen. Kelly installed as White (Supremacist) House Chief of Staff has brought some adult supervision to... wait, what?

Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He told stories about his Vietnam battles and....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017

...conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017

Whocouldanode?

Trump's Vietnam War experience, as he related to Howard Stern: trying to avoid STDs in Manhattan https://t.co/xDyk4CfWWa

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 7, 2017

But Kelly has things under control, right?

<looks around>

<whispers>

Right? https://t.co/zqzvKFj6WF

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 7, 2017

It seems General Kelly doesn't have full control of the phone. https://t.co/UworUb3kSy

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 7, 2017

There are probably stories about the discipline Kelly is going to instill in Trump that haven't even been published yet.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 7, 2017

And a helpful reminder:

1) While Trump tweets about seemingly irrelevant stuff, his team is fundamentally reshaping US health, safety, environmental rules.

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 7, 2017

Send In The Clowns. Don't Bother They're Here.

(Click on photo to enlarge)

With the Beltway media chirping about the appointment of retired Gen. John Kelly to be the new senior day care manager White (Supremacist) House Chief of Staff and how "things may change now!", it's worth remembering that the one immovable, malignant object that counts remains: unhinged sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump. He thrives on "chaos" and watching reality show-like infighting among his staff to see who comes out the "winner."

This photo shows some of the contestants in Rump's Washington reality show gig: left to right, Seb Gorka, Omarosa, Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci, and Corey Lewandowski. Gorka's the ethnic Hungarian national security advisor who was involved with Hungary's anti-Semitic nativist Magyar Gárda group, and who was fired last year as an FBI consultant for his anti-Muslim hate speech. Next is former Apprentice reality contestant and Rump acolyte Omarosa, who owes her celebrity to Rump, in a sprayed-on, low-cut dress and a silver cross necklace because she's... a Christian, of course. Then The Mooch on a cell phone talking to goodness knows what media outlet, likely trashing the folks in the picture in an obscene tirade out of "Goodfellas." Finally Lewandowski, the former Rump campaign chief who was arrested for battery of a female reporter, now a lobbyist serving as an "outside advisor" to Rump.

The photo captures the salient features of Trumpism: greed, treachery, misogyny, hypocrisy and bigotry. Be sure to read Charlie Pierce's thoughts on this photo in Esquire. The excesses of 40 plus years of Rethuglican catering to bigots, charlatans and the deranged led to those people taking over the store, and this photo shows us some of the store's junior managers.