Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"
Trump's officials are quietly concerned about his "blatant criminal behavior." What took them so long?

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published May 8, 2025 10:13AM (EDT)


(Salon) It is time to stop examining the chaos and time to do something about it.

I have a source inside the Trump regime who feels, in their own words, “a little disillusioned.” This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,” but is now concerned about the “blatant criminal behavior” of Donald Trump. Really? His last administration didn’t show you that? Well, OK.

This source first approached me by saying, “I can provide you bonafides to show you I’m serious.” That impressed me because I didn’t think many people inside the Trump regime knew what bonafides were, let alone how to be serious.

....(snip)....

If you want to laugh about a picture of Trump holding a red lightsaber on May 4, or about that AI-generated photo of Trump as the pope, join the millions who think it’s all lowbrow comedy. If you want to laugh about Trump reopening Alcatraz, go for it. I know I did. But there is something we’re missing by simply mocking the tragic and demented character who once again resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

....(snip)....

So this isn’t just about Trump’s mental decline, “which is a given,” as my source put it. Rather, it’s about who is able to prod him into pushing their own private agenda. Trump is well known to be most influenced by the last person he spoke with, and to have that privilege one must be able to walk into the Oval Office without an appointment. There’s one administration official who recently told reporters he can do this: deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/08/inside-the-new-regime-source-says-team-is-growing-disillusioned/

[Johonny]

1. Woke agenda is a made up thing

And DEI is mostly just recognizing non-white males actually exist. The only ones losing their shit over it are complete bigoted assholes.

Anyone that didn't know Trumpnwas a criminal as far back as 2016, didn't and doesn't want to know. 34 felony convictions should have been a clue.

I'm good with no room for center right in the democratic party and I think we can win without them. They have been wrong about everything always, so fuck them.

[Iris]

10. Yes - that DEI excuse is obtuse and ridiculous

What a stupid, stupid person this "source" is

[newdeal2]

2. Well then do something about

Lots you can do behind the scenes to slow / stop this train wreck.

[ananda]

3. I'm surprised they lasted this long.

Trump is going through severe dementia
and mental regression.

His slightest whim becomes policy that has
to be carried out or else.

I guess you could say he has a "whim of iron."

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[mzmolly]

5. Because the stupid MF's are NOT above the law.

Trump 'may' be, thanks to the SCOTUS, but those who serve in his administration can be held fully accountable.

[Old Crank]

6. May everyone of these

Be forever stained by their association and support of this criminal.

They all knew what he has always been and still supported him.

[AverageOldGuy]

7. All this is fine but it's irrelevant.

What is important is: How does the nation survive four years of this shit flowing daily from the White House?

[Grokenstein]

8. It takes a while for the seriously gullible or deluded to sober up.

"Haw haw haw, he's a wild man, he's off his leash, he doesn't care who gets hurt, he...uh...he's gonna make...oh...oh shit oh shit oh shit"

And of course there's always the "wait, this could affect ME" aspect...

[usonian]

9. Every damn one of them will be the fall guy when things go wrong.

And they have no immunity except for a pardon.

Which will cost them



Of quarters, if not dollars.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. The more illusions they brought with them, the more disillusioned they'll be, when reality kicks them in the jewels.

But I'm sure they'll still hang on to their delusions.

[Warpy]

12. Double whammy

First and foremost, their bullshit his failed spectacularly and a lot of it is going to hit the courts and some of them will undoubtedly go to jail for abuse of power.

Second, they've realized that Fearless Leader is not the smartest guy in the room, he just pulls shit out of his ass and throws it around to see if any of it sticks and starts smelling like rose buds. Nope and nope.

King Pustule is going to last through his big, beautiful tax cut to his own rotten class, something that will be far less than he promised to his rotten class (see: failed bullshit). After that, he's going to lose interest completely. I doubt he will finish his term except as a figurehead, photographed with a telephoto lens as he traverses a golf course.

[Native]

13. If you're just reading the excerpt & not the entire article, you are doing yourself a disservice. To read it in its

entirety is to know how truly fucked we all are.

[Botany]

14. Yup! The whole article is a must read.

Others, like his niece Mary Trump, say it is just another indication of his mental decline: “There is no worst with Donald Trump. Every day is just worse than the day before.”

Snip

Trump told another reporter he was unsure if everyone should be provided due process, although the U.S. Constitution explicitly says so. He also said he was unsure whether he was responsible for upholding the Constitution, although the oath of office he swore on Jan. 20 is entirely about that: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

“I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" after she asked him whether everyone on U.S. soil is entitled to due process in a court of law. When asked whether he has to uphold the Constitution as president, he again said, "I don't know,” followed by this: "I have to respond by saying again, and I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."

Snip

Miller shows up in the briefing room to tell us that schools are teaching communism and claim that teachers are trying to turn five-year-olds transgender and they must be barred from girls’ basketball teams. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells us he doesn’t believe in germ theory but does believe in “chemtrails,” while suggesting that the measles vaccine contains aborted fetuses.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. In the sense that the whining inside source is no use at all, yes, that indicates we're fucked

They are whining that the Democratic party doesn't have room for center-right politicians. Well, no; they're at liberty to vote for Democrats, but Trump being a declining crook shouldn't mean "the Democrats should shift to the right to allow for this". This source whines that there's no one for them to talk to - bollocks, The Bulwark would do fine. Liz Cheney didn't whine - she spoke out. And the source says they'd refuse to vote for AOC. Well, if AOC is the solution that Democrats decide upon, then anyone who worries about the country should get behind her. She is not an extremist, nor is she a crook - and if Republicans are only going to whine to sympathetic journalists, then the likely next Republican candidate will be both, because that's what MAGA seems to admire. If this source wants to stop that as a choice, they have to organize to get a non-Trump Republican as their next candidate.

[riversedge]

16. "it's about who is able to prod him into pushing their own private agenda."....

Just praise Trump and he will implement your wishes.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

17. The source seems to be saying that

Democrats are no help because they like AOC and won't shift to the right in order to get these types of repubs to vote for them.
I say, look where your votes have gotten you. Do you want more of that?

I'm not going to support any Dem that runs as a moderate regardless of what these trumpers want.