Ad-hoc Trump fuels White House

accused Trump of betrayal.

“Imagine Obama saying something similar? He’d (have) been denounced as a dictator. Congress would talk impeachment. Some would mutter secession,” Carlson said.

On Thursday Trump himself had to clean up the mess, hosting representatives from the powerful gun lobby in the

Backpeddling

Sources say he called the Republican author of pro- gun bill, Senator John Cornyn, to express support, as his staff tried to row back his comments.

“Conceptually, he still supports raising the age to 21,” said Sarah Sanders, peddling back hard on universal background checks. “Universal means something different to a lot of people,” she said.

The latest wave of crises has rocked an administration that has been in the impact zone for more than 13 months.

“The lack of anything resembling a serious process around both the gun and tariff announcements makes painfully clear we have a White House in disarray at the same time we have a world in disarray,” said Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

“If you are not worried, you should be. The combination is nothing less than toxic.”

As the White House struggled to keep its head above water, Kushner faced a rash of new allegations about his of staff John Kelly was forced to say he would not resign and Congress announced a probe into White House security clearances.

This, after Kelly admitted the administration’s early sensitive secrets was not up to snuff and 35-40 staffers had “top secret” clearance they did not need.

said the White House “wasn’t up to the standards that I’d been used to.”

“Nothing illegal,” he added. “But it wasn’t quite up to the standards.”

Between this barrage of scandal and an angered president willing to go off script, the most common question around Washington and around the White House is “how long can this go on?”