@Montmorency: Loved the sig picture


As to staff undermining the President in some areas:


Some of this happens, I suspect, in all Presidencies. An administration is not a monolith with one person issuing commands from on high. At a minimum, no single person could make that many decisions in a single day on so many subjects. I do not know if I would label it a "soft coup."


In the case of this administration, efforts to tone down some of the inanity would only be beneficial. And I suspect that this particular POTUS needs significantly more "editing" than most.