Daily reminder that the so-called president is legitimately senile. Everyone around him knows it. Cowardly Republicans like Bob Corker know it and continue to do nothing to hasten his removal from office. Puerto Rico is still starving for aid, btw.
"'You either had to just convince him something better was his idea or ignore what he said to do and hoped he forgot about it the next day,' said Barbara Res, a former executive in the Trump Organization.
Trump, several advisers and aides said, sometimes comes into the Oval Office worked into a lather from talking to friends or watching TV coverage in the morning. Sometimes, a side conversation with an aide like Stephen Miller on immigration or a TV host like Sean Hannity would set him off.
Then, staffers would step in to avert a rash decision by calming him down. At times, new information would be shared, like charts on how farmers might feel about ending NAFTA — or how his base might react negatively to an idea, like the verbal deal he struck with Democrats on immigration last month.
In the first stretches of the administration, aides would ask outside figures to intervene with Trump.
Among those sometimes engaged: business figures Stephen Schwarzman, Tom Barrack and Richard LeFrak and politicians he respects, like Corker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, among others. One outside adviser said White House aides had called him on at least five occasions to intervene."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/trump-aides-guard-rails-243608