The only conclusion that I can come to is that he should be relieved of presidential duties so he can get treatment, before he completely self-destructs and takes us down with him. […]

Politico Reader:
What the ever-loving hell have you done, America? […]

Politico Reader:
We elected a reality TV host to run the government, and our government has subsequently turned into an absurd Frankenstein of "Survivor", "Big Brother", and "Let's Make a Deal". Please don't be too hard on us. I'm personally still grappling with the fact that this line was actually published:

"A person familiar with the press secretary’s location late Tuesday night said Spicer was standing between or behind bushes, but not physically in a bush."

Excerpt:
Inside the White House, the mood was dour. Several White House officials said aides who didn’t need to see the president stayed away from the Oval Office — and kept their doors closed. The president had little on his public schedule and spent several hours talking about the Comey situation, mostly fuming, and even re-tweeted criticism of Comey posted by his longtime nemesis Rosie O’Donnell in December.

Trump did the lengthy interview with Holt even though some on his staff believed it was a bad idea and gave his answers off-the-cuff. One person who spoke to him said he’d been “fixated” on his news coverage and believed his press team was failing him and that he needed “to take the situation into his own hands.”

The episode highlights two fundamental issues of the Trump presidency: It is often impossible to work for Trump in the White House — and it is often impossible for Trump to be happy with those who work for him.

“They’re hostages,” said longtime political consultant Mark Corallo, who served as Attorney General John Ashcroft’s spokesman under President George W. Bush. […] – Politico

NR Reader:
It's hard to imagine any future where the GOP is able to recover from the stench of Trump's hostile, repugnant takeoever of its party. No matter where you stand politically, it's a depressing thing to watch.

I believe our country is strong enough to withstand his continued assault on the nation's collective norms, values and beliefs and that democracy will chew him up and spit him out soon enough. But I don't believe the Republican Party is similarly positioned. […]

Donlad J. Trump (tweet)
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! [..]

Rod Dreher:
The thing to keep in mind is that this Dumpster fire is entirely of Trump’s own making. Maybe Comey deserved to be fired. If so, you don’t fire him in the middle of this Russia investigation, you don’t fire him in a dirty way guaranteed to raise everyone’s suspicions, and you sure don’t lie about it, and send your people (Pence, Sanders, et al.) out to lie about it.

So, now the President of the United States is threatening blackmail against the former FBI director to shut him up. Honestly, my pro-Trump readers, at what point do you say, “Enough!”? – TAC writer

TAC Reader:
So, we’ve gotten to the point where the President of the United States is publicly threatening the former FBI Director he literally just fired in an attempt to make him keep quiet. Note, this FBI director was in the midst of conducting an investigation against this very same President.

It all just so transparently screams out: what might Comey have to say that would lead Trump to publicly threaten him?

What scares Trump so much that Comey knows?

How are Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway going to spin this as something totally normal? […]

Every new administration makes mistakes, but I haven’t seen any that has engaged in so much gratuitous self-sabotage as this one does. […] – TAC writer

TAC Reader:
True. But, the real danger is not to Trump, or to the office of the president. It is to the people of the United States. This fool has got to go. And it is up to Republicans of integrity to see that the system of checks and balances function as intended to preserve the rule of law. […]

TAC Reader:
There is a cancer in the white house. Trump is going down and he’s afraid, so he lashes out. Stupid-Sad. […]

TAC Reader:
As a “liberal”, shall we say someone positioned about where the GOP was about 40 years ago, the only comfort this administration gives me is its {total} disfunctionalism. If this man were sane and competent, the toxic agenda of our current extreme Right GOP would be getting placed into effect. […]