'No Adult Supervision': Concern Escalates As Trump Increasingly Appears out of Touch

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‘No Adult Supervision’: Concern Escalates As Trump Increasingly Appears out of Touch
by David Badash | March 28, 2025 - 5:46am

— from Alternet

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Calling him “President Bystander,” MSNBC’s Steve Benen writes, “Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House.”

Pointing to the Signal texts, Benen says one text “chain featured the White House’s Stephen Miller adding, in apparent reference to the attack plan, ‘As I heard it, the president was clear: green light.'”

“The problems should be obvious,” Benen added. “Vance was uncertain about Trump’s knowledge of the relevant details, and one of the president’s right-hand loyalists added an ‘as I heard it’ qualifier to the commander in chief’s directive about a deadly military operation abroad.”

The Commander-in-Chief appears to have been uninvolved in important portions of the planning of the military strike. Based on the Signal texts, it appears likely that he was absent from key portions of the decision making process.

Jared Ryan Sears, who writes The Pragmatic Humanist, offered this observation.

“Trump didn’t know about the Signal group chat or that a reporter was included. Trump says he didn’t sign the authorization to use the Enemy Alien Act to deport people without due process. His signature was on the document. Trump didn’t know that US service members went missing during a training exercise in Lithuania,” he noted. “What kind of leader knows nothing about what his administration is doing, what he himself is doing, and what is happening with the military he is in charge of?”

Attorney, Republican, and former U.S. Representative Barbara Comstock on Wednesday shared her concerns via social media.

“There is no adult supervision at the White House. Grandpa does not know what is going on except on the Golf Channel or if someone takes a bad picture of him. Where’s Melania? Does he have a COS or caretaker?”

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Melania is busy getting ready to star in her Amazon documentary maybe?

[ButchMcMuffin]

13. Oh she's getting busy alright

Busy with Gavin Newsom and or Justin Trudeau

[Wingus Dingus]

2. When do the investigations start into whether Krasnov ordered the bombings or not?

Stephen Miller isn't in the chain of command.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Who will investigate? Hegseth's DoD? Bondi's Justice Dept? Rubio's State Dept?

Maybe Jim Jordan or Comer will look into it.

[Wingus Dingus]

17. Yeah. They'll get right on it.

[Gaugamela]

23. The whole obvious staring in your face point is it's a PR move to call attention to the elephant in the room.

The Dems can’t do anything substantive, but they can yell into the echo chamber.

(SMDH)

[Blue_Roses]

22. Stephen Miller

has his finger on everything that is going on now.

[AnnaLee]

3. It would seem the following is in play

Trump is focused on solving his personal problems through executive orders.
Project 2025 crowd is providing the direction for destroying the democracy.
Musk and boys are executing a destruction of the US from the inside.
Vance has taken over aspects of destroying US alliances.
No one is running the operations of the federal governement except
a few surviving, as yet not fired, civil servants who dare to risk doing their jobs.

[LaRaven]

5. Succinctly put! It's basically a coup on American Democracy.

[Beck23]

18. Yes, they are destroying the country from within.

[JohnnyLib2]

8. Agreed. There's a big hole at the top of the chain of command.

Many have known all along that he wasn't competent or capable in the first place and doesn't recognize his own limitations. Others have "seized the reins" .

[dalton99a]

14. +1. Great summary

[dutch777]

4. Smart CEOs gather the best and brightest around them, Trump just got dumb people.

For a guy that worries more about his image than substance, he is losing on both fronts. Only good thing for him is these folks will follow him foolishly down any rabbit hole.

[Beck23]

19. Now we know why most of his businesses failed.

[doc03]

6. They carry out a military attack and he says he didn't know

about it. I think that could be the truth for once. I think Stephen Miller and Musk are running things.

[Gaugamela]

9. Congressional Democrats should start hammering the 25th Amendment.

[Dan]

16. Probably not possible, because the use of the 25th Amendment

Entails his Cabinet as I understand it. His Cabinet was picked based on willingness to obey Trump, not out of concern about doing a good job or following the Constitution.

[617Blue]

10. Where's the New York Times to point out the president is a deranged sociopath? *

[Paladin]

11. Yeah, as if that'll ever happen... (nt)

[delisen]

12. Where is Susan Wiles, C of S ?

Wiles is complicit in destroying the United States of America.

[Mr. Evil]

15. He's intentially kept out of the loop.

They let Krasnov The Sick Fuck play with his shiny new toys, EO's and tariffs, while they run amok with their warped power fantasies and looting the treasury.

[Sneederbunk]

20. 25th, Twenty-Fifth, 25th!

[Initech]

21. He's been out of touch since 2012. Where you been?