Was It Inevitable That Trump's Presidency Would Fall Apart? It's What Putin Was Counting On

Worst "president" ever just ended a truly horrific week... entirely of his own making. And it's bad for the country and it's bad for all of us. If you believe in the power of prayer, start praying that he goes-- and fast. Or that Mueller's report has so many smocking guns and so much collusion that not ever the Republican cowards in Congress can keep whistling Dixie.

Three guys with great White House connections, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei, Jonathan Swan, reported that Trump is already becoming disenchanted with Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Trump asked one trusted adviser: "Did you know [Mulvaney] called me 'a terrible human being'" back during the campaign? The Axios Three say that "Trump was furious when the slight surfaced in a two-year-old video right after he promoted Mulvaney.



A week after that tape became the talk of Washington, CNN reported that Mulvaney called Trump's views on his silly border wall and on immigration "simplistic... absurd and almost childish." Asked on a radio show, when he was still a congressman, Mulvaney explained "[T]o just say 'build the darn fence' and have that be the end of an immigration discussion is absurd and almost childish for someone running for president to take that simplistic of [a] view... "And by the way, the bottom line is the fence doesn't stop anybody who really wants to get across. You go under, you go around, you go through it. And that's what the ranchers tell us, is that they don't need a fence. What they need is more manpower, and more technology, and more willingness to enforce the law as it exists today. There are parts of our border that are secure and parts of our border that are not. A lot of that comes down to whether or not we are just willing to enforce the law as it exists. So it's easy to tell people what they want to hear, 'build the darn fence, vote for me.'"

Earlier in the interview, Mulvaney said his views on immigration were shaped by talking to Texas ranchers.

"The fence is an easy thing to sell politically," Mulvaney said. "It's an easy thing for someone who doesn't follow the issue very closely to say, 'oh, well that'll just solve everything, build the fence.' When you go out and you talked to the Texas ranchers. Which I've done, [Rep.] Jeff Duncan has done, and ask them-- these are the guys dealing with it every single day."

"Because we have a fence there," the interview said. "And they're building tunnels."

"Yeah we have a fence, Mulvaney responded. "That's exactly the point."

Mulvaney added he believed Trump's emotional appeals and cavalier attitude might prompt him to try going around the Constitution.

"I wonder who is more interested in going around the Constitution in order to get things done. Barack Obama or Donald Trump," Mulvaney said.

"It's easy to tell people what they want to hear. It's easy to appeal to people's emotions," Mulvaney added. "I'm angry. I get it. I mean, believe me, I'm as angry as anybody on this. I do this for living. I have to deal with this administration every single day. It's extraordinarily frustrating. I feel that anger because I live with it and I talk to people about it."

"That's what I do when I come home, and that's people are angry," he continued. "And I get it because I'm as angry as they are, but just to appeal to somebody's emotion and say, vote for me because I'm as angry as you are, doesn't really solve the problem. It might make you feel better in terms of having voting with somebody who sympathizes with you, but it doesn't really solve the problem and that's what I'm interested in trying to do is, how do you solve the problems and winning elections is part of solving the problems."

It was a really bad day, week, month year for Trump. He inherited a stable foreign policy, built by both parties over decades, and he's destroyed it like a bull in a china shop. He inherited a roaring economy and he's killing it. The Trump Stock Market just ended its worst week in a decade. He's destroying a democracy that was built over the course of more than two centuries. Now he's shutting down the government-- primarily because he doesn't have the capacity to deal with all the crap he's created around him. Everything he touches turns to shit. And everyone knows it's all going to get much worse-- on every level. All that... without even putting the Mueller investigation into the equation.