{"id":20825,"date":"2017-04-06T23:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2017-04-06T23:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:50:44","slug":"time-to-lube-the-machine-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20825","title":{"rendered":"Time to lube the ‘machine,’ Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump’s “fine-tuned machine” has been misfiring almost since\u00a0the jalopy\u00a0rolled into the White House.<\/p>\n

Now we hear that senior policy adviser Steven Bannon and the president’s son-in-law\/adviser Jared Kushner are at each other’s throats almost daily.<\/p>\n

Is this how a “fine-tuned machine” runs, Mr. President? Many of us out here in the peanut gallery don’t think that’s the case.<\/p>\n

Trump pledged “best people”<\/a><\/p>\n

The president vowed to surround himself with the “best people” ever assembled to run the government’s executive branch.<\/p>\n

Bannon came on board after serving as editor of Breitbart News, the ultra-right wing media outlet. Kushner married well, as he is Ivanka Trump’s husband. Neither man has government experience. They’re both strong-willed, however, which might explain why they are fighting constantly.<\/p>\n

Here’s another wrinkle.<\/p>\n

Until this week, Bannon had a seat on the principals committee of the National Security Council. Then the president moved him off the panel.<\/p>\n

Bannon’s been fighting with Kushner for weeks. The president loves his daughter and doesn’t want her husband injured\u00a0while butting heads with Bannon.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Is there linkage between\u00a0the bickering inside the West Wing and Bannon’s demotion from the principals committee?<\/p>\n

Break out the lube oil, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s “fine-tuned machine” has been misfiring almost since\u00a0the jalopy\u00a0rolled into the White House. Now we hear that senior policy adviser Steven Bannon and the president’s son-in-law\/adviser Jared Kushner are at each other’s throats almost daily. Is this how a “fine-tuned machine” runs, Mr. President? Many of us out here in the peanut gallery … Continue reading Time to lube the ‘machine,’ Mr. POTUS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7029,6781,6896,7047],"class_list":["post-20825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jared-kushner","tag-nsc","tag-principals-committee","tag-steven-bannon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions\/20827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}