If You Were Working In The Trump White House, What Would You Do?

That’s been the number #1 question of debate around here.

If you were one of the cooler heads in the White House, who is deeply and understandably offended by Trump’s remarks, do you resign in protest to make a statement, knowing that you’ll probably be replaced by a lunatic? Or do you stay on out of loyalty to the country, if not the President? What about if you are Jewish?

We don’t have a good answer to that. We can judge people for their lack of backbone, but we can’t really fault them. We don’t mean to sound like apologists. We would more freely question their decision to join the Trump Administration in the first place, knowing the high percentage chance of something like this coming down.

Certainly, the many former high ranking military officers in the Administration, all of whom served under several Presidents of both parties are used putting the interests of the country first (although are also strong adherents to chain of command.)

As for the others: many of us have power dreams. And for many currently in power in DC, Trump was their lucky break and once-in-a-lifetime shot. It’s hard to give that up.

Especially if you think this “blows over” as even Trump’s most outlandish attacks always have. What we do know is it is our responsibility to do whatever we can to make sure that doesn’t happen this time!

(This story originally appeared in “The Chaos Report” Newsletter. Please subscribe at https://thechaosreport.com/subscribe/?scr=Medium)