Is Trump getting ready to spring the trap?

[Girard442]

Charlottesville, Arpaio, and DACA were hammerblows in quick succession. All were red meat to the Deplorables.

September is promising to be a very bad month for Trump. The debt ceiling issue alone looms like an iceberg in the mist. Add a possible government shutdown, the aftermath of Harvey (and possibly Irma), and a no-win situation in North Korea, Trump needs a radical move to survive.

Imagine this: Trump calls Mattis, McMaster, Kelly, and Tillerson into an "emergency" meeting. When they arrive, they find Erik Prince is in attendance along with several of his associates. Trump then relieves them of their duties and they are replaced by people hand-picked by Prince in a temporary emergency capacity. Prince's associates are there to assure there will be no insubordination. Mattis, et al, make brief statements but are not available to answer questions.

Crazy? Sure is. But we live in crazy times.

[dflprincess]

1. You're giving him too much credit

Trump is not smart enough to pull something like that off.

[Girard442]

4. There is a difference between Trump the person and the "corporate" Trump.

Trump the person is probably suffering from the onset of dementia. The corporate Trump, which would probably include Jared, Ivanka, and some others is probably much more capable.

[busterbrown]

5. Yea... But Bretbart is..

He’s still huge in Trump’s heart and has begun pulling his strings from around the block.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I believe our rank and file military and pentagon people will protect us from the idiot in the WH

Having said that, dealing with NK in the best of circumstances with the most qualified human alive doing it, who just so happens to be the person who won the election, Hillary Clinton, is still a crap-shoot and potentially disastrous, doing so with the dumbest, meanest and least qualified human to ever live?

We

are

fucked

[Chasstev365]

3. A bit far fetched, I'm afraid.

[longship]

6. Admiral Ackbar knows!

[spanone]

7. ...with a crazy 'president'.

[TrollBuster9090]

8. Unlikely. But if that DID happen, the biggest irony would be that all those f-ing OATH TAKERS

all those f-ing OATH TAKERS would probably cheer the action. All those morons who swore an oath to overthrow Obama if he even tried to do something LEGALLY within his power, would be cheering Trump's 'temporary' suspension of democracy.

Didn't they do a poll recently that showed 30% of Republicans would support Trump if he said he had to postpone or delay the mid-term elections? Scary stuff.

[FSogol]

9. Other than adviser Kelley, all of those jobs require Congressional approval.

If Tillerson is fired, one of his deputies takes over. Ditto for everyone else. Eric Prince will be told to get lost.

[DrDan]

10. snicker. . . . .(sorry)

[onenote]

11. Yes, we live in crazy times.

But I don't see that as a reason or excuse for posting nonsense here.

[FSogol]

12. LOL, and then all of them turn into squirrels except they have high-top sneakers instead of tails...

[Girard442]

14. If I had predicted a year ago what we have now...

...you would be calling for me to be institutionalized.

Oh, hell. I would have committed myself.

[VOX]

13. Read or watch (the original) "Manchurian Candidate"...

It's enough to feed anyone's paranoia. And no, nothing's out of the question with Cult45.

[clu]

15. a situation like this

is what messageboards /pol/ voted for. they did not care that he could not govern - ostensibly - they wanted trump to set in motion a series of events that would tear the whole thing down. I posted a few days ago about the fact that i'm a member of a gaming forum for the past 15+ years, and that this have given me an insight into a cross-section of people who profess to be conservative/non-democrat, yet still voted for change after bush.

compared to normal moderate/slight conservatives, the alt right threw in their vote against the establishment (laff) and hoped the system would come crashing down. apparently they're really ticked off about an extra 5% in taxes. TBH I don't think they care about fakenews as long as they can troll dems - they know the truth and they support the other side. manifest destiny never ended for them, it was just silenced by the civil rights movement.