{"id":44716,"date":"2020-04-07T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44716"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:25:34","slug":"confirmed-trumps-white-house-and-reelection-campaign-are-joined-at-the-lip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44716","title":{"rendered":"CONFIRMED: Trump’s White House and Reelection Campaign are Joined at the Lip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since the creation of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Donald Trump has hijacked their daily press briefings to advance his personal interests. He wasted the time of both the Task Force members and the American people so that he could spew lies about imaginary accomplishments and shamelessly pay tribute to himself. That’s when he wasn’t whining about media coverage and yelling petulantly at reporters who asked pertinent questions.<\/p>\n

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The briefings that were supposed to keep the public informed were exploited to boost Trump’s floundering reelection prospects<\/a><\/strong> and to satisfy his voracious ego and need to constantly be the center of attention. It has been an unethical failure of duty by both the White House and the media, which should have refrained from live airings<\/a><\/strong> of Trump’s flagrantly partisan, reality show-style tantrums.<\/p>\n

Now the marriage of Trump’s White House and his 2020 reelection campaign operation is complete. CNN is reporting<\/a><\/strong> that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has been given the boot. That’s not much of a loss considering that the only thing she did in her eight months on the job was to serve as the resident Trump-fluffer on Fox News. She never held a single press conference.<\/p>\n

Grisham’s replacement – and Trump’s fourth press secretary in three years – will be the Trump campaign’s spokesperson, Kayleigh McEnany. Clearly Trump is suffering some anxiety about the November election and feels that it’s necessary to turn his White House into an arm of his campaign. Apparently commandeering the coronavirus briefings for that purpose wasn’t sufficient. So Trump has tapped one of his most shrill and glassy-eyed devotees<\/a><\/strong> to make the case to the media that he is a “stable genius.”<\/em><\/p>\n

For an example of the deft communications skills that McEnany will bring to the White House, see this video of her last month insisting that “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here,”<\/em> and remarking that “isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kayleigh McEnany: "…we will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here and isn't that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama." <\/p>\n

Trump's new Press Secretary, ladies and gents. pic.twitter.com\/gOsimFuDgj<\/a><\/p>\n

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n