{"id":377661,"date":"2018-09-18T03:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-adults-in-the-white-house-trying-to-save-the-us-from-trump-are-just-as-dangerous-as-he-is\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:50:39","slug":"the-adults-in-the-white-house-trying-to-save-the-us-from-trump-are-just-as-dangerous-as-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-adults-in-the-white-house-trying-to-save-the-us-from-trump-are-just-as-dangerous-as-he-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adults in the White House Trying to Save the US From Trump Are Just as Dangerous as He Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_105373\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105373\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/35356247863_de75059ba2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/35356247863_de75059ba2_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/09\/35356247863_de75059ba2_z-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source IIP Photo Archive | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before his election as president it was understandable that Donald Trump\u2019s critics should have vastly underestimated his ability as a politician. It is much less excusable \u2013 and self-destructive to effective opposition to Trump \u2013 that they should go on underestimating him almost two years after his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Every week there are more revelations showing the Trump administration to be chaotic, incompetent and corrupt. The latest are the anonymous op-ed in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in which one of his own senior officials\u2019 claims to be working against him and Bob Woodward\u2019s book portraying the White House as a sort of human zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The media gleefully reports these bombshells in the hope that they will finally sink, or at least inflict serious damage, on the Good Ship Trump. This has been the pattern since he announced his presidential candidacy, but it never happens. Political commentators, overwhelmingly anti-Trump, express bafflement at his survival but, such is their loathing and contempt for him that they do not see that they are dealing with an exceptionally skilled politician.<\/p>\n<p>His abilities may be instinctive or drawn from his vast experience as a showman on television. Priority goes to dominating the news agenda regardless of whether the publicity is good or bad. Day after day, hostile news outlets like\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and CNN lead on stories about Trump to the exclusion of all else.<\/p>\n<p>The media does not do this unless&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/09\/17\/the-adults-in-the-white-house-trying-to-save-the-us-from-trump-are-just-as-dangerous-as-he-is\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source IIP Photo Archive | CC BY 2.0 Before his election as president it was understandable that Donald Trump\u2019s critics should have vastly underestimated his ability as a politician. It is much less excusable \u2013 and self-destructive to effective opposition to Trump \u2013 that they should go on underestimating him almost two years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}