'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago
'Huge fight': Warring factions inside Trump transition get into 'big blowup' at Mar-a-Lago
Behind closed doors, President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has become a somewhat fractious and chaotic environment according to a new report.The Washington Post reported Saturday that "new camps have formed" at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida with competing visions for how to prepar...
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Trump’s transition team is reportedly mired in infighting at Mar-a-Lago, with factions clashing over control and strategy for his return to the White House.
The Washington Post detailed heated disputes, including shouting matches, name-calling, and physical altercations.
Three key factions have emerged: one led by Donald Trump Jr. and JD Vance, another by Trump ally Susie Wiles, and a third by Linda McMahon.
High-profile confrontations involve figures like Boris Epshteyn, Elon Musk, and Vance, highlighting tensions over Cabinet picks and leaks, further fracturing the team.
Following the Watergate scandal, ‘-gate’ became the suffix to label subsequent scandals.
I propose stories associated with Trump, and other stupid scandals, be encrusted with the suffix ‘-a-Lago’.
Tariff-a-Lago
Embargo-a-Lago
Cargo-a-Lago
Fiasco-a-Lago
Bravado-a-Lago
Avocado-a-Lago
If we have trouble with Nigeria somehow, we could get Lagos-a-lago
Wait, what happened to avocados? They were already too expensive-a-lago
Epstein-a-lago has an interesting ring to it
What if the scandal involves Mar-a-Lago though? Do we call that Mar-a-Lago-a-Lago?
Why not, compound stupidity justifies a compound stupid label.
Alternatively, how about Mar-a-La-La-Lago?
This is actually very great
Soo.. uh.. what do we call this one? Scuff-a-Lago? Rumb-a-Lago?
Rumb-a-Lago sounds like a poolside exercise class.
I love it. We have a bunch to catch up on then. Is Stormy Daniels; Pornstar-a-Lago? Access Hollywood; Grab-'em-by-the-a-Lago? How about Epstein-a-Lago? Waiting for that last one to break... 🤞
There’s going to be enough content to warrant a dedicated community.
Is c/-a-Lago a valid community name? Maybe c/Duh-a-Lago?
Edit: the real puns require time to brew.
c/MAG-a-Lago
This happened throughout his first term as well as within the Trump Organization before he sought public office. His management style seems to be one where the boss pits everyone against each other to keep all would-be dethroners at bay. It's not the best way to distribute the keys of power, but it is a good way to keep anyone from challenging the leader even in the slightest.
This is exactly how Hitler ran his government. People think the Nazis were hyper-efficient. In truth the German reputation of being a highly regimented and strict society well predates the Nazis, the Nazis themselves were highly disorganized and really inefficient in most everything they did.
Nazis came into power in the early 1930s. It required them to lose a major war in 1945 and the death of their cult leader before they stood down.
It appears that one of our greatest mistakes was allowing the Nazis to become a comedy trope (like the Producers), showing them as incompetent buffoons. In reality, they were a decade-long threat that made the world extremely uncomfortable. Nazis don't fall over just because they're "the bad guys", and outside of some more-powerful superpower rising up and kicking their ass its not so clear how to make them fall.
That being said: Trump and the MAGAs are NOT Nazis and thank god for that. They are Americans and ultimately I tie them closer to the Know Nothings or Whigs.
The Presidents of the 1800s caused major atrocities over the Native Americans, and the USA then had a century of anti-Native American / bad-guy Indian savages to deal with. Of course, we won those battles so it wasn't such a big deal but the atrocities remain a black spot in our moral history. Given the trajectory of what we're witnessing here, I expect a similar thing for MAGA.
In other words; a bunch of ultra wealthy nepo-babies with the IQ/EQ comparable to the average 14 year old boy are hanging out at a luxury country club deciding the future of our nation, and despite having collectively been in the game for almost a decade, they still have no idea what they're doing.
We've come full circle, back to the "founding fathers" in terms of letting the wealthy few decide our future, yet our modern cast of wealthy few are wealthy fools who likely wouldn't survive a week without their personal assistants.
because each and everyone of them think that they are the real shit
Good. The in-fighting might be the only thing to save America from this administration.
nah, it's rather the rule that these rackets consolidate their power in this way.
It consolidates it, but that means the in-group is smaller. Fascisim is a death cult in the long run as it has to keep everyone focused on an enemy, but they have to invent a new enemy if they defeat that one.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.
It's worth watching CGP Grey's video on The Rules for Rulers. In it he explains why allies of the new rulers are tossed out when the old rulers are deposed. What makes a person good at grabbing power doesn't necessarily make them good at keeping it.
There are probably one or two other things to save your country from that administration..
This is why the Media helped Trump win. So they will have endless stories like this.
I see a lot of takes like "The media learned nothing from 2016/2020."
My enby in Christ, our blessed ever perfect capitalism means they can NEVER 'learn' or even 'care' about what is best for the country. It will only ever be about the click$.
I hated it so much last time. Too stressful. When Biden won in 2020 it felt like a weight was lifted off me.
Trump didn't win. Harris lost.
Late night talk show hosts are salivating at the thought of the next four years.
I feel like if we're to get out of this unscathed it'll be because of this kind of infighting. AntiMAGA people in gov't should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
EDIT: y'all - definitely agree that we're not getting out of this unscathed, you can quit pointing out my poor choice of words
We're not getting out of this unscathed.
The infighting and arguing is, at best, the grifters trying to secure the best grift for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
No you're right, even if it's just chaos and infighting for the next four years we're all going to suffer
AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
These people are so mature and well adjusted that this could be accomplished by simply walking up to Trump and saying "did you hear what Vance said about you last night?" and then walking up to Vance and saying "did you hear what Elon said about you?" and then asking Elon "did you hear what Don Jr said about you?" No elaboration, let their "imaginations" run wild.
Switch up "unscathed" for "have some kind of functional country with a democracy not particularly worse than what we've had".
Start building unions, mutual aid, and other grassroots political support. It's time to start getting out of our post-election shock and turn frustration into action.
I am sure this is exactly what Trump wants. To run his administration like The Apprentice.
Same management energy that succeeds in going bankrupt running a casino.
It was nice having a break from these news stories for four years with a boring Biden administration.
Nah. They needed trump, still.
"Economy showing signs of recovery" didn't help the GqP at all and it needed to be swapped out for something valueless that sells papers. Thus, trump.
By all means let them blow themselves up.
It's an overlooked way to combat fascism. Get them to eat each other in a corner rather than taking out their rampant sexual frustrations on the rest of us.
The fall of the Berlin wall can be largely attributed to a boarder guard getting pissed at all his higher ups being at a party celebrating 40 years of the USSR and refusing to return phone calls (amongst hundreds of other improbabilities occurring on the same evening)
Media companies have realized what foreign governments have known for years. If you want all the inside knowledge of what goes on in the Trump White House, send a spy to Mar-a-lago. You don't need clandestine agents when Trump and his crew discuss all this stuff openly, and all you have to do is pay to get in.
Hell, the dipshits willingly talked to the Watergate guy who ended up writing a book about it (instead of actually telling people about the shit, because that doesn't make you money).
What? Woodward and Bernstein were told about the investigation by an associate director of the FBI.
It was already a crime being investigated by the FBI before the articles. Deep Throat was a high ranking FBI agent.
Some of yall need to read a little history if you're going to base opinions on it because everything you said is wrong.
may the goblins be as incompetent as they are ghoulish
Wow. It's almost like when you hire nothing but back stabbers and grifters, you get people who only know to back stab and grift.
Trump’s team is slowly discovering why we have government and bureaucracy.
they must have not got the memo that their infighting is exactly what boss Putin wanted.
Bitch Fight!
Bitch, fight!
Three key factions have emerged: one led by Donald Trump Jr. and JD Vance, another by Trump ally Susie Wiles, and a third by Linda McMahon.
No, that's one faction: Trump's. This is how he does business. Creates infighting, brokers a deal, comes out ahead.
This.
Nothing new, just standard business practices by Trump
Hopefully they just tear themselves apart from the inside and everyone just bails and we can have another election with some decent fucking candidates.
Trump promised the social media nutjob faction, the corrupt billionaire faction, and the low-brow entertainment faction that they'd each get to call all the shots. Kinda awkward when they all get in the same room together.
I think the US is going to have a health epidemic of falling-out-of-windows soon.
That is more of a russian thing. We have Hoffa's, as in gone without a trace.
Yeah the sith had issues with infighting too, kind of a mark of authoritarian takeover.
It's important to remember our history.
overwrites the Sith Empire history with some weird consciousness transfer deal
Honestly kind of a nice metaphor?
Oh no! I hope they don't kill each other! That would be a tragedy 🙄
Yet another headline you’d never have to worry about seeing under any other normal presidency.
Par for the course for the next 4+ years.
Can we get a Celebrity Deathmatch episode of this please?
Only if it ends with Abraham Lincoln coming back from the dead and mowing every single one of them down with an AR-15 and then ending with a line like "Party of Lincoln, my ass!"
I see a bunch of middle school boys
They're actual predators pushing fascist sentiment. Maybe it'd be good to stop relying on that narrative ya know
what narrative ?
I thought Conservatives were the unified party.
Traditionally, disputes like this were resolved by all members of one faction having unfortunate fatal accidents in the same night.
Pistols at dawn!
I was thinking more about long knives.
Hey you know what we could put in there? It's a huge empty space dude! You could totally put a trampoline in there!
Just jump in thru one ear, bounce and jump out the other! He would be non the wiser! I'm surprised he walks around and says things.
My money's on McMan
couldn't win an election
Yeah that'll happen when your populace is largely morons who vote for someone who proposed tariffs as a way to lower prices. Yep always the evil Democrats causing everyone to be such morons.
The same people that boycotted a better deal because they weren't able to understand 1/3 > 1/4.
Education important. School good.
No, you’re wrong to blame the voters.
Dems could have ran a candidate that appealed to voters, but instead opted for the same corporate shills as always. Dems could have campaigned on massively popular populist policies like paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, or Medicare for all - things which would directly improve the material living conditions of the working class. Their donors didn’t allow them to, and their corruption ensured their obedience. Once again, not learning the lesson, and once again, losing in historic fashion.