In seven months, nearly all of Trump’s once-trusted top advisers have either quit or been fired. The list includes Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Sebastian Gorka, Sean Spicer, and Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, Mike Dubke, Michael Flynn, K. T. McFarland, Katie Walsh, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Tera Dahl, Derek Harvey, Rich Higgins, and Michael C. Short. Plus, James Comey.
Plus, those 46 Obama-era prosecutors.
And pretty much the entire State Department.
Rumor has it that first daughter Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, are next. According to Vanity Fair, the couple has begun plotting their exit strategy. They might even move out of Washington, D.C. before the end of the school year in 2018.
According to reporter Sarah Ellison,
“Increasingly you hear chatter in Washington that Jared and Ivanka won’t last, not because they are at risk of being pushed out, but because they will save themselves from a damaged White House. Neither has committed to staying the duration of the Trump presidency, which both must realize may well be cut short.
Any masquerade that Kushner and Ivanka could maintain that they were moderating influences in the White House flew out the window the moment Trump waved his hand and said that there were ‘many sides’ to the Charlottesville violence. If [Ivanka’s] main value in Washington is her access to her father and she is unable to sway him, then she is simply a 35-year-old former real-estate and retail executive in over her head.
Most such people take a seat a little off to the side, at least until they get their bearings. ‘What is off-putting about them is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance,’ this veteran told me. ‘They think they are special.’”
Ivanka, who is called “princess royal” behind her back at the White House, and hubby Jared don’t quite understand “how to behave” among Washington elites. D.C. doesn’t really give two shits about them. This has damaged their self-esteem and Ivanka and Jared are now focused on saving the last shreds of their reputations,
“at least in the kind of society they have enjoyed for much of their young lives—the precincts of Upper East Side socialites for Ivanka and high-society New Jersey for Kushner. They are still trying to salvage what they can.”
Well, New York doesn’t want them either, so they’d better find another planet where no one has heard the name Trump.
(Photo, Instagram; via Queerty, Vanity Fair)
