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'Shaky Object Permanence': Official Links Trump Chaos To Unlearned 'Peekaboo' Skill

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A Trump administration official explained why President Donald Trump's inner circle keeps shrinking by pointing to "shaky object permanence," a skill infants learn. White House correspondent Shelby Talcott reported Monday that Semafor spoke with more than a half-dozen current and former Trump officials about the power structure around the president. Two of the five aides pictured as his core advisers at the end of 2025 are already gone. Two more who hold the president's trust leave within weeks, Talcott reported. Some officials "argued that Trump's reality is one of shaky object permanence," Talcott wrote. "Once the president has not seen someone for a while, especially if they're not people he has a longstanding relationship with," the official said, "he's not really going to be hungry to call them." The official attached one condition to that judgment, according to Semafor, and it was the length of the relationship rather than the seniority of the aide. That matters because, as Talco

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