Summary
Trump’s transition team is reportedly mired in infighting at Mar-a-Lago, with factions clashing over control and strategy for his return to the White House.
The Washington Post detailed heated disputes, including shouting matches, name-calling, and physical altercations.
Three key factions have emerged: one led by Donald Trump Jr. and JD Vance, another by Trump ally Susie Wiles, and a third by Linda McMahon.
High-profile confrontations involve figures like Boris Epshteyn, Elon Musk, and Vance, highlighting tensions over Cabinet picks and leaks, further fracturing the team.
This is why the Media helped Trump win. So they will have endless stories like this.
I see a lot of takes like “The media learned nothing from 2016/2020.”
My enby in Christ, our blessed ever perfect capitalism means they can NEVER ‘learn’ or even ‘care’ about what is best for the country. It will only ever be about the click$.
I hated it so much last time. Too stressful. When Biden won in 2020 it felt like a weight was lifted off me.
Trump didn’t win. Harris lost.
Late night talk show hosts are salivating at the thought of the next four years.
Lol i knew exactly what this timestamp would be
Maybe not for him, as he’s not a traditional late night host, but for the rest of them, definitely. It’s all they talked about for four years.
Because it was all they COULD talk about for 4 years. He monopolized the media landscape, pushing out much better material left and right.
Besides, being funny about something that’s already both a joke and a tragedy is NOT anywhere near as easy as you might think.
Especially not when millions of people will send you death threats if you go to far and millions of people will stop watching if you go too easy.
And that’s not even mentioning the real possibility that he might make mocking him illegal.
No need to bootlick talk show hosts. There is always plenty going on in the world. They choose to discuss him every night. To say that’s all they could talk about is gross hyperbole. They are lazy. The writers are lazy. Trump is some of the lowest hanging fruit in the last 50 years.
No need to bootlick talk show hosts
If that’s what you think was going on, I hesitate to read the rest of your comment… 🤦
There is always plenty going on in the world
Yeah, but talk show hosts have to stay relevant. They have to make jokes about what people are talking about.
What people are talking about is mainly determined about what legacy media covers and what goes viral on social media.
If both are dominated by whatever bullshit the Mango Mussolini is doing, the talk shows gotta talk about what the Mango Mussolini is doing.
To say that’s all they could talk about is gross hyperbole
No, it’s exaggeration for simplicity to make a point without getting bogged down in irrelevant details
They choose to discuss him every night.
THAT’S hyperbole, though. Hypocrisy too, by the looks of it.
They are lazy. The writers are lazy
More hypocrisy with your lazy and narrow minded jumping to conclusions 🙄
I was right. I shouldn’t have read on.
The fact that you’re defending late night talk show hosts so hard is odd. Do you work for one of the shows?
No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to discus the orange man. It’s a choice. This can’t be argued.
Haha. An honest liar, that Colbert.
I feel like if we’re to get out of this unscathed it’ll be because of this kind of infighting. AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
We’re not getting out of this unscathed.
The infighting and arguing is, at best, the grifters trying to secure the best grift for themselves at the expense of everyone else.
No you’re right, even if it’s just chaos and infighting for the next four years we’re all going to suffer
AntiMAGA people in gov’t should find as many ways to stir the pot as they can.
These people are so mature and well adjusted that this could be accomplished by simply walking up to Trump and saying “did you hear what Vance said about you last night?” and then walking up to Vance and saying “did you hear what Elon said about you?” and then asking Elon “did you hear what Don Jr said about you?” No elaboration, let their “imaginations” run wild.
There is probably at least one troll doing exactly that lol
Honestly if I had the influence required id worm my way in just to do that. It emphasizes factionalism and forces them at eachothers throats.
We didn’t get out unscathed last time. The fucker got
23 SCOTUS appointments and whole mess of lower judges.No chance we’re fine after this one either.
Three scotus picks
Fuck I forgot.
In other words; a bunch of ultra wealthy nepo-babies with the IQ/EQ comparable to the average 14 year old boy are hanging out at a luxury country club deciding the future of our nation, and despite having collectively been in the game for almost a decade, they still have no idea what they’re doing.
We’ve come full circle, back to the “founding fathers” in terms of letting the wealthy few decide our future, yet our modern cast of wealthy few are wealthy fools who likely wouldn’t survive a week without their personal assistants.
because each and everyone of them think that they are the real shit
It was nice having a break from these news stories for four years with a boring Biden administration.
What break? The media couldn’t give up their orange addiction. Remember how much news there was for every trial?
I didn’t bother to pay attention because he wasn’t at the levers of power the whole time. It was bliss.
Nah. They needed trump, still.
“Economy showing signs of recovery” didn’t help the GqP at all and it needed to be swapped out for something valueless that sells papers. Thus, trump.
Media companies have realized what foreign governments have known for years. If you want all the inside knowledge of what goes on in the Trump White House, send a spy to Mar-a-lago. You don’t need clandestine agents when Trump and his crew discuss all this stuff openly, and all you have to do is pay to get in.
Hell, the dipshits willingly talked to the Watergate guy who ended up writing a book about it (instead of actually telling people about the shit, because that doesn’t make you money).
Trump’s team is slowly discovering why we have government and bureaucracy.
they must have not got the memo that their infighting is exactly what boss Putin wanted.
Oh no! I hope they don’t kill each other! That would be a tragedy 🙄
Hopefully they just tear themselves apart from the inside and everyone just bails and we can have another election with some decent fucking candidates.
Yeah the sith had issues with infighting too, kind of a mark of authoritarian takeover.
It’s important to remember our history.
overwrites the Sith Empire history with some weird consciousness transfer deal
Honestly kind of a nice metaphor?
Good. The in-fighting might be the only thing to save America from this administration.
nah, it’s rather the rule that these rackets consolidate their power in this way.
It consolidates it, but that means the in-group is smaller. Fascisim is a death cult in the long run as it has to keep everyone focused on an enemy, but they have to invent a new enemy if they defeat that one.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.
i know. i’m from germany.
There are probably one or two other things to save your country from that administration…
Except, if I am getting what you are saying right, no. That would make things worse. That would result in President Vance and if you got rid of President Vance, you get President Johnson.
To quote Jello Biafra, “I’d rather have a dumb Nazi than a smart Nazi.”
Yet another headline you’d never have to worry about seeing under any other normal presidency.
Because the dems hide it better?
Because they actually have policy and aren’t egotistical maniacs struggling for power for powers sake.
Last time Dems had control they passed comprehensive healthcare. The GOP gave themselves a tax cut.
Lol. Dems are ruled by corporations that are after power for power’s sake. They dont even try to hide it.
Did you not see Harris proudly declaring that she supports fracking and Israel??
Oh damn, we still doin both sides?
in one side, we have pedophiles, con artists, actual nazis, etc. On the other side, we have people who failed to convince the county that they were less bad than the opposition, and were completely incapable of holding literal trators to justice.
I’m coming around to the “both sides” argument. I’ll still vote blue, assuming we even have another election again, because fuck the fascists and 3rd party is a waste of a vote, but deer fuck the dems need to figure their shit out and fast.
I see a bunch of middle school boys
They’re actual predators pushing fascist sentiment. Maybe it’d be good to stop relying on that narrative ya know
what narrative ?
Following the Watergate scandal, ‘-gate’ became the suffix to label subsequent scandals.
I propose stories associated with Trump, and other stupid scandals, be encrusted with the suffix ‘-a-Lago’.
Tariff-a-Lago
Embargo-a-Lago
Cargo-a-Lago
Fiasco-a-Lago
Bravado-a-Lago
Avocado-a-Lago
If we have trouble with Nigeria somehow, we could get Lagos-a-lago
This is actually very great
What if the scandal involves Mar-a-Lago though? Do we call that Mar-a-Lago-a-Lago?
Why not, compound stupidity justifies a compound stupid label.
Alternatively, how about Mar-a-La-La-Lago?
I love it. We have a bunch to catch up on then. Is Stormy Daniels; Pornstar-a-Lago? Access Hollywood; Grab-'em-by-the-a-Lago? How about Epstein-a-Lago? Waiting for that last one to break… 🤞
There’s going to be enough content to warrant a dedicated community.
Is c/-a-Lago a valid community name? Maybe c/Duh-a-Lago?
I think the US is going to have a health epidemic of falling-out-of-windows soon.
That is more of a russian thing. We have Hoffa’s, as in gone without a trace.
Traditionally, disputes like this were resolved by all members of one faction having unfortunate fatal accidents in the same night.
Pistols at dawn!
I was thinking more about long knives.
Why did I think of the one at stone henge back in the medieval era first and not the Nazi one?
They did like that neopagan vibe.
