White House: a revolving door!

re·volv·ing door

noun

1. an entrance to a large building in which four partitions turn about a central axis.

   • used to refer to a situation in which the same events or problems recur in a continuous cycle.

     
     

     "many patients are trapped in a revolving door of admission, discharge, and readmission"
   • a place or organization that people tend to enter and leave very quickly.

     
     

     "the newsroom became a revolving-door workplace"

Donald Trump dismisses FBI bigwigs (James Comey), fires former confidantes, turns against his most loyal early supporter (Jeff Sessions). and eats coffee boys (George Papadopoulos) for breakfast. 

Donald may turn to Temp Agencies to fill these positions.  He enjoys not adding USA Ambassadors to countries across the globe. No American ambassador presently assigned to South Korea.

The Donald keeps government employees on the unemployment line, denizens of the Deep State are stuck in basements, shooting pool or playing video games until things change.

Why Trump's rapid turnover. He has turned the White House into a revolving door atmosphere. If you grew up in New York City, you know revolving doors. They are found on the ground floor of high rise buildings.

Trump loves added his logo, the name Trump, to the top of these buildings. Revolving doors symbolize speed and efficiency. Maybe Trump's childhood visits to Manhattan made a big impression-- a regular primal experience.

"I'd love to send people flying through those doors when I grow up," young Donald may have thought.

Trump's dismissals of personnel are not always that-- and many resignations have been thrown in the mix.

Recent developments: Rob (accused wife beater) Porter fired... Hope Hicks resigned. Hope famous for being a Trump confidante. She answered to the Mueller investigators. Made a dash to the revolving door afterwards... Gary Cohn bolted. Cohn, Economics advisor, folded up his laptop and headed back towards Wall Street.

 Look-up The Art of the Deal, and see what Trump;s co-author Tony Schwartz had to say. Ain't a pretty picture. Schwartz's comments on Trump's short attention span bring to Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff.

Revolving Door. Let's get the invention facts:
American inventor Theophilus Van Kennel reportedly hated holding doors open for women, so he created energy-efficient revolving doors to cure his social phobia.
(Noah Friedman, Business Insider, Dec. 19, 2016)

And from Wikipedia:

Theophilus Van Kennel  was recognized for his invention with the John Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute in 1889, founded the Van Kannel Revolving Door Company, which eventually was bought out by the International Steel Company in 1907. International Steel Company is the parent company of International Revolving Door Company.

Van Kennel invented and owned Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1907.

Witching Waves is an interesting name for the amusement ride at Coney Island by Van Kennel.  

Mysterious waves lapping at the shore. Waves washing ex-White House staffers out to sea... Witching Waves describes America's continuous turnover rate at the top. 

Mr. Trump professes conflict is key to his management style. Hard to argue with the pugnacious president.

Trump the De-stabilizer

Let’s turn to the Merriman-Webster dictionary for a definition of the word destabilize.

Destabilize—transitive verb; 1. To make unstable; 2 to cause (something such as a government) to be incapable of functioning or surviving.

Fareed Zakaria, host of a Sunday morning show on CNN, interviewed a journalist from Iran last week. The journalist didn’t speak perfect English. Fareed asked “what do people in Iran think of Donald Trump?”

“Instable,” the reporter answered. He meant to say “unstable” but his meaning was clear. “Donald Trump is instable and he is making America instable…” he continued. He used instable rather than saying “Trump is de-stablizing America.” Ah ha, I thought. I think this gentleman has captured the essence of Mr. Donald Trump. His goal is to “destabilize” each and every situation to his own advantage.

The President of the United States has immense power. We look to the president to add stability. We presume the president reached his position through great skill and experience. The president should be the epitome of—stability. He or she shares that great equanimity with the entire nation and the entire globe. The center of the Free World is Washington DC. We want everything to revolved around the White House. The president is a center of gravity holding reality, politics, war, conflict and peaceful resolution in the center of his hand. But this time it’s different. Donald Trump seeks instability in every situation.

Trump just declared against the FBI. The FBI is in tatters and only Donald the Great can restore the department to its former glory. Strange?! Critics say the morale of FBI agents will fall precipitously because the boss said they suck… Donald throws everybody over like a jiu jitsu master. Everybody is an enemy and he has to keep the adversaries off their stride. He has to destabilize them.

Donald Trump thrives on conflict, while most people avoid conflict as much as possible. We wonder about his motive. My guess is the destabilization technique comes from his business experience. I’ve never read “Art of the Deal” but I probably should. Keep your negotiating adversary off-guard, nudge him out of his game, push him out of his comfort zone. Maybe Trump’s goal is money and making money. His job description is to lead the USA but Trump always has his eye on the dollar bill.

A real estate friend of mine told me—“your power in any house buying decision is the ability to walk away from the deal. Trump alienates all comers. He’s always walking away from the deal.

A few tidbits… heard a radio caller describe Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “a sassy diner waitress type.” That’s hysterical.

The same radio show featured Major Garrett talking about the White House press briefings, now go-to viewing. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is just too entertaining.

Major Garrett said reporters, like him, “stormed the ramparts” to pin Sara Sanders to the truth.

The same caller on the show I mentioned above described the reporters as “obsequious.” You decide….

Word Nerd section:

3 Vocabulary words:

1.   Epitome-- embodiment

2.   equanimity—evenness of mind

3.   obsequious—fawning attentiveness

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