Trump’s Entire White House Staff Talking Mass Walk Out
According to CNBC, they are getting reports that President Trump’s entire White House staff is discussing a mass walk out, questioning whether or not they even want to be affiliated with the administration anymore.
While this would be unprecedented, it’s hardly unbelievable given the public relations nightmare Trump has received over the last several days for his publicly stated position on white supremacists in Charlottesville, saying in essence, both sides were to blame for the violence. He then said there were some “very good people,” aka white nationalists, who only wanted to protect Confederate statues.
That appears to have rubbed a nerve inside his administration.
In addition, to both of Trump’s economic councils being disbanded, CNBC is also reporting that National Economic Director Gary Cohn might resign, as well. That would compound issues, and be the latest in a long series of resignations/firings that have plagued the administration for some time now.
The White House is adamant that this latest rumor is untrue, and “100% false” but the editor of Axios, Mike Allen, is getting a number of “increasing texts, emails, and calls” from inside the White House saying they might just walk out on Trump, and any day now. We’re going to believe Allen on this one.
Besides Trump’s staff, he also has the concern of whether his top military brass still support him, or trust his leadership. There’s ample evidence they do not. Shortly, after the Charlottesville incident, all four of Trump’s joint chiefs of staff, the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and even the National Guard, released public statements denouncing the kind of racist rhetoric Trump was advocating. Unlike the Commander-in-Chief, they stated racism was wrong, and they would do everything to combat it.
Texts, emails from White House insiders wondering if they want to stay
We're getting texts, emails from White House insiders wondering if they want to stay: Axios
Some of President Donald Trump's own staff are questioning whether they want to remain at the White House, Axios Executive Editor Mike Allen told CNBC on Thursday.
"We're getting increasing texts, emails calls from people inside wondering if this is something that they want to remain a part of," he said in an interview with "Power Lunch."
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Published 17 Aug 2017 CNBC.com
Some of President Donald Trump's own staff are questioning whether they want to remain at the White House, Axios Executive Editor Mike Allen told CNBC on Thursday.
"People are watching what he's saying, watching what he's tweeting. We're getting increasing texts, emails, calls from people inside wondering if this is something that they want to remain a part of," he said in an interview with "Power Lunch."
Rumors circulated Thursday morning that National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn might resign, sending stocks lower. However, the White House strongly denied those rumors, calling them "100% false."
Trump has been under fire for his reaction to the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. On Tuesday, he blamed "both sides" for the violence and claimed some of the people participating in the rally were only against the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Then on Thursday he took to Twitter to speak out against removing Confederate statues.
The bipartisan criticism of his remarks has been swift, and on Wednesday, top business executives disbanded an advisory council to Trump.
Axios reported that the president has "left himself on an island inhabited by a shrinking band of true-believer voters."
"The problem for this president is that the exact market forces that he would need to rise, that he would need to get his footing, recover are all people that he's alienated," Allen told CNBC.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
— CNBC's Jacob Pramuk and Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report.
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