August 23-25, 2017: Gorka Gets the Boot and Mexico Won't Pay

 

8/23/17: A Quinnipiac poll finds that by a 62%-31% margin, Americans feel the president is doing more to divide than unite the country. 

To put it plainly, most Americans realize Trump is an ass.

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8/24/17: Administration officials make it clear the president is willing to shut down the government in September if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall. Trump fans are too dumb to wonder why Mexico isn’t going to pay, which Candidate Trump swore a thousand times they would. 

Members of Congress in districts along the border are polled to see if they think we need a big, beautiful wall. Eight U.S. senators and eight members of the House of Representatives all agree. 

We don’t.

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8/25/17: Staff turmoil continues to roil the White House. Extreme-right-wing adviser Sebastian Gorka resigns, or gets booted, depending on whom you ask. According to Gorka, he resigned because “it is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House.” 

New Chief of Staff John Kelly gets credit for pushing Gorka out, after pushing Gorka’s main ally, Steve Bannon, out the previous week. There are reports Kelly may soon boot Omarosa to the curb. (See: 12/14/17.)

Gorka: Loud, obnoxious and confrontational.