From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
At President Trump’s UN speech yesterday, the cameras caught Chief of Staff John Kelly in a studious face-palm, looking not unlike a college basketball coach whose team was down by 40 points at the half, trying to convince himself that this was a young team in a building year, and surely, the recruiters hadn’t been having him on. The White House can try and tell us he’s just tired because of Trump’s vigorous schedule or what have you, but I think the real story is–he can’t not know that this speech boxed Trump in and fubar’d his options massively.
This was a speech Trump gave as if for one of his rallies for the maybe 30% die-hards who need to hear his MAGA line of business. But he gave it in front of an audience of world leaders, and this was not the speech he needed to give to them.