Alleged Leaks From Trump Aides Paint POTUS as Bored, Fragile Man Who'd Rather Be Watching TV

Did you hear the one about how President Donald Trump allegedly has to have his TV viewing habits monitored so as to "minimize" info that might piss him off? What about the other one, i.e. the one about Trump allegedly growing "increasingly angry" on the day of his inauguration after reading about crowd sizes? If you missed both of those, maybe you caught the one about how Trump allegedly became "enraged" after catching TV shots of this weekend's historic protests?

As the Daily Intelligencer pointed out in their Trump aide leaks roundup Tuesday, recent days have seen a string of similar accounts from sources allegedly connected with the new White House administration. On Sunday, for example, a Politico source said aides have to "push back privately" against Trump's "worst impulses," including anger-promoting TV:

Finally, the Washington Postshared perhaps the most detailed of these alleged accounts Monday night. "This account of Trump's tumultuous first days in office comes from interviews with nearly a dozen senior White House officials and other Trump advisers and confidants, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations and moments," the Post said of their sources, noting that "broader power struggles" were at play within the "Trump operation" at large.

Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, summarized the alleged Trump administration struggles toPolitico as a sign that we are currently witnessing "the worst start of a presidency in a very long time." To that end, here's a tweet sent from the @realDonaldTrump account just days ago: