“Crazytown” is what Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly calls the West Wing of the White House under President Donald J. Trump, according to the man who helped uncover Watergate and topple Richard Nixon.
Of course, we didn’t need the great investigative reporter Bob Woodward to tell us this administration is off the rails. We’ve been able to see for 19 months now that President Trump is – as many aides told Woodward – an “idiot,” and his White House is in a near constant state of “nervous breakdown.”
Trump’s top aides have taken documents from his desk or hidden paperwork to stall dangerous potential trade and military actions.
His former attorney, John Dowd, tried to prepare him for possible testimony before special counsel Robert Mueller or Mueller aides, Woodward reports. When Dowd concluded the president simply couldn’t tell the truth, he reportedly told Trump: “Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jump suit.”
Secretary of Defense James Mattis had to talk the president down from removing the U.S. military from South Korea and explain that the military presence stays there to keep the U.S. “out of World War III.” Mattis also had to temper Trump’s alleged insistence to assassinate the Syrian president after a chemical attack on his own people.