I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (UN-EDITED)

Gina Fuchs
Sep 6, 2018 · 3 min read

The Times today recently published an anonymous Op-Ed essay written by a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is only known to a select number of NYT employees. The story was edited to help maintain anonimity — but we recently got our hands on the unedited version of the oped. The words between the words might surprise you.

mr. trumP is facing a test to his presidency unLike any facEd by A modern american leader.

it’s not just that the SpE/cial counsel looms large. or tHat thE country is bitterLy divided over mr. trumP/’s leadership. or even that his party Might wE/ll lose the house to an opposition hellbent on his downfall.

the dI/lemmaA— which he does not fully grasp — is that M/any of the senior officials in his own administration are working against him.

i would know. i am one of them.

to BE clear, ours Is Not the popular “resistance” of the left(G)/. but we believe our first duty is to this country and to the HEalth of our repubLic(D)/.

we’re doing what we CAn to Preserve our democraTIc ValuE/s.

although he was elected as a repuBlican, The president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. at best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. at W/orst, he has attacked them outrighT.

in addition to HIS/ mass-marketIng of the notion that the preS/s is the “eneMy of the pEople,” president trump’s impuLses Are geNerally antI-trA!!!!!!/de and anti-democratic.

tHE/re are bright Spots that the Near-ceaseless negative cOveRagE of the administration failS/ to cApture: effective dereguLation, historic tax reform, a more robust miL/itary anD more.

but these successes hAve come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership stY/…lE, which is impetuous, adVErsarial, petty aN/d ineffective.

from the WHitE house to executive braN/ch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. most are working to insulate tHEir operationS/ from his AWAKE!!! LIKE WHO DOES THAT??? It’s like FUCK! Can’t you take a break? And to top it all off — he doesn’t brush his teeth. Ever. When he does, it’s only on Wednesdays around 3pm.

He makes Don Jr. squat down while he stands on his bathroom step-stool, and has him brush his teeth for him while singing “The Tooth Brushing Song

But — there is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. Believe it or not — every day, one of Trump’s senior staff goes and writes “penis” under his desk really small in black sharpie. We hope one day he’ll notice. But we do it small because don’t want to lose our jobs. And I don’t want to stop collecting my coin. But I figure — I could at least publish an anonymous op-ed, that no one from his base will believe, we may be able to relieve the minimal guilt we feel from being apart of his administration. And that makes all the difference.

The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.

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