Check out this tidbit from the WSJ story about Priebus/Bannon being announced as Chief of Staff and “Chief Strategist” for Trump’s White House:
During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Trump aides were described by those people as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.
After meeting with Mr. Trump, the only person to be elected president without having held a government or military position, Mr. Obama realized the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do, people familiar with the matter said.
Yes, that’s right.
President Barack Obama, one of the most intelligent, qualified, decent and classy Presidents of our lifetimes, who has been insulted and slandered by Donald Trump for five years now, whose entire legacy is at risk of being destroyed by Donald Trump, is now voluntarily choosing to hold Trump’s hand like a parent teaching a toddler to ride a bike during his final weeks in office.
Think about the amount of love of country, and steely-eyed discipline, President Obama must have to do this. Think about how much he must have to clench his jaw and grit his teeth to be willing to patiently guide this racist, misogynistic, xenophobic con-artist egocentric moron through the most basic, rudimentary concepts of executive government...all purely because he knows that like it or not, he’s turning over the steering wheel to the nation over to him in just 67 days for the next 4 years and he’d prefer that the man-child not crash the country into a tree when he takes the wheel.