As the Trumpageddon unfolds, more and more of the so-called adults in the room will either leave of be defenestrated. Vanity Fair predicts some of the next steps: he will get rid of John Kelly and HR McMaster. I would guess that Rex Tillerson won't be long for his job either. Without Kelly or McMaster to shield him, how much longer to Mattis stay at Defense?
Even more terrifying is the roster of replacements. McMaster could be replaced by bloodthirsty ghoul John Bolton. Plutocrat and supply side fundamentalist Larry Kudlow looks to already be in line for Gary Cohn's job. The next Chief of Staff? Corey Lewandowski or Newt Gingrich? Devin Nunes? Who the hell know?
The recent chaos surrounding Trump's impetuous spasm of words on North Korea and steel tariffs is a good example of where we are headed. Since Trump neither knows nor cares to learn about policy or the world at large, we can be assured that he will continue to thrash about creating chaos in this country and the world at large. This is who he is.
Subtract even the modest restraints on him, and the chaos and dysfunction will "go to eleven."
But the GOP got tax cuts for the rich and Neil Gorsuch from it, so who cares that Putin just got the best return on investment in the history of international competition.
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