KKKaroline Is Showing The Stress

And honestly, who can blame her? We all know what she’s like, but having to explain a war would be tough on anyone except Trump. We don’t like her, but maybe she could get a bit of a break. Just once. Gratitude to Raw Story:

There is a perceptible sea change at the White House as Donald Trump’s fortunes take a turn for the worse, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt is showing visible signs of stress dealing with it. According to White House correspondent Anushka Asthana writing for The i Paper, the shift is unmistakable.

More journalists are cramming into the briefing room daily, sensing that unpredictable chaos could erupt at any moment. The contrast to six weeks ago is stark, she wrote. In his State of the Union Address, Trump spent a 107-minute speech boasting about falling gas prices — his centerpiece achievement. Iran merited roughly three minutes near the end, almost as an afterthought.

Now it’s all war all the time, and it can’t be escaped. Since we don’t know what crazy thing Trump will do next, like a random blockade, everyone needs to keep on top of the subject as much as possible. It’s unpredictable. It’s also a cause for concern at the very least. This war has screwed us six ways from Sunday. We need to know if it gets worse because that will be another hit the people of America will take in their lives. Not as if we don’t have enough problems already.

Now the Iran war is all-consuming, along with the dire economic consequences it has unleashed. In a recent Ipsos poll, 66 percent said they wanted the US to end its involvement quickly, even if all goals aren’t achieved, compared with just 27 percent who support Trump pushing on. Trump’s mental state is visibly deteriorating under the pressure, according to Asthana.

“There is no question that he has become more erratic in recent weeks; that the frustration and anger he is feeling is bubbling up to the surface and causing him to lash out,” she wrote. “It is not new for Trump to attack his enemies, but he is doing it more intensely and frequently – and there are moments that increasingly dissolve into the bizarre.”

Heh. His mental state was already deteriorating under the pressure of being president, let alone by a war halfway around the world. Let us not forget about his age, either. Why can’t the military see this? Why can’t they see Hegseth is full of hot air and ideals and warminded? And why won’t his ‘cabinet’ look at the 25^th Amendment? It’s so obvious that he’s gone round the bend just by his actions over the past week. And then there are all the illegal orders from him and Hegseth.

“More of us journalists are cramming into the briefing room each day to witness what will happen next. You can see the increasing frustration for Leavitt as she looks to justify what Trump is saying.” The president is carelessly lashing out at longstanding allies, she wrote. “Standing in a pack of journalists by the White House south lawn and under the roar of Marine One,” Asthana noted, “I was struck by how casually he flung out criticism of previously allied world leaders.”

When pressed about Trump’s increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric, Leavitt offered a hollow defense. She claimed his language was a tactic that caused the Iranian regime to “cave to their knees.” But the journalist noted Iran is not budging, and said “Trump’s increasingly unpredictable outbursts point instead to a President who isn’t getting his own way – and is struggling to find a way out of the mess he has created.”

Is there a way out? Not a graceful one by any means. He needs to stop the blockade of the Strait for one. What a blatantly stupid, petty move. Iran is going to charge “tolls” to go through from now on. There’s no way they’ll reopen it when they can hold the world hostage. What about the ships that are still stuck? Can they pay the “toll”? That’s another cause for concern. The world economy is going downhill very, very fast. All because of the imbecile who calls himself our ‘president’. Nonsense.

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