Washington: November 11, 2017 ✉️
Leaks from the White House have slowed in recent weeks. There has been little open fighting in the press between the President’s aides.
Perhaps General Kelly really is bringing some organisation to the frat house 🍻chaos at the centre of the Government of the United States of America.
Or perhaps when there are no plans or policies other than defunding the protection of the environment, defending the gun lobby and neglecting America’s diplomats, there is little blame to shift?
And those stories that do happen are to the minor players in this theatre 🎭 of the absurd. Why try and defend someone who it turns out isn’t even a billionaire 🤮❌ – the very description of a loser in Trump world. Mind you, it is still a puzzle as to why Forbes magazine managed to add funds under management to personal wealth.
Perhaps the media are focussed on the stories from abroad?
Who cannot be but transfixed by a political tradition where a smirk while offering to personally warm the cold hands of a colleague apparently passes for witty banter in the British 🇬🇧 Cabinet.
Or a Secretary of State who forgets to tell the Prime Minister about meeting the leader of Israel 🇮🇱 while on holidays.
Most of us just limit our holiday forgetfulness to the PIN number of our credit card after too much of the local fermented liquid or wondering for all 10 days in Barbados if we forgot to turn the oven off.
No wonder the Conservative Party managed to lose the future to BREXIT, and nearly the election to a bearded Islington based Marxist pensioner in a corduroy jacket.
Or the story of a 32 year old Saudi Prince with a Mediterranean based yacht costing $500 million arresting his relatives for corruption. All mixing with a resignation from Riyadh by the Lebanese Prime Minister who looked like he was reading a ransom note on a hostage video.
Or it is perhaps the head spinning confusion of a Trump trip to Asia. Where the photo opportunities seem to televise what reminds one of a particularly dull child being shown around a new school – all vacant stare and a resolute look of understanding nothing.
But no. A White House that successfully spun criticising war widows, tax cuts for rich people and supporting white supremacists, must be panicking at how to spin the recent elections in Virginia where the base held and the swing swung. A very long way to the Democrats. The revenge of the suburbs.
The old favourite of “the candidate didn’t explain it” is a good try. But along with gambling, a falling stock portfolio and lies, the double down theory solution doesn’t work often.
And anyway, it isn’t the voters of America who have to believe the White House spin.
It is the Republicans in Congress who are up for election in 2018 who need to be convinced that all will be fine on the day.
And even they are not that stupid ?! I think……