**The Great Myth of the So-Called “Adults in the Room”**
"The leading myth of the mainstream media over the past year has been the idea that there were “adults in the room” in the Oval Office of the White House. These so-called adults were for the most part general officers, both active duty and retired, who were going to restrain the excesses of Donald Trump by providi…"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/21/the-great-myth-of-the-so-called-adults-in-the-room/