The story in The Daily Beast, “Donald Trump’s 3 A.M. Phone Call Is Coming” made me think about who could get to Trump quickly enough to stop him from having an unstrained fit of narcissistic rage on hearing of some provocation that could destabilize the world, if not start a war. Who can be there in person in minutes at 3:00 AM or on weekends. Ideally a stable and rational Chief of Staff John Kelly, as sadistic and lacking in empathy as he is, could have staff monitoring both the news and Trump’s Tweets not only doing the normal working hours, but 24 and 7.
That could be the most important job: deciding when to interrupt or even wake up General Kelly.
Then Kelly would need to decide when to physically intervene.
I got to thinking that short of actually moving into a residential suite in the White House, he’d need to be living minutes away. When seconds might count, a speedy golf cart could whisk that bathrobe clad chief of staff to the White House, and the physically fit Marine general could run into Trump’s bedroom, wrestle him to the ground, and pry his hands off the nuclear “football.”