Chaos topped off by Spicer resignation
The latest chaos and disarray in an administration that is defined by it is the abrupt, but not surprising resignation of Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who somehow managed to survive on the hot seat for six months.
Spicer’s loyalty to the president was demonstrated through his modus operandi, looking members of the media in the eye and lying, then attacking them when they dared to challenge him on the myriad falsehoods he launched with a straight face. For his steadfast service to the president, he was denigrated, Trump even going so far as to express disapproval of his attire.
Spicer indicated that he was leaving due to the president’s selection of a Communications Director he did not sanction, but certainly it was far more than that, his frustration no doubt building as the president to whom he was pledged would contradict what he had said and as rumors persisted that he was on the way to dismissal due to dissatisfaction with him.
Amidst a staff of pretenders and incompetents, there are many respectable individuals serving in the Trump administration. They are on notice that they are likely to leave prematurely and with their reputations in tatters. Who would place themselves in such a no-win situation?
I would expect that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right behind Sean Spicer at the exit. Who could withstand being taken to the woodshed in comments made publicly, Trump stating that he would not have chosen Sessions had he known that he would recuse himself in the Russia investigation. The message is, “Mr. Attorney General, there is the door.”
New White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is infamous for asserting that the president does not lie, told another whopper upon Spicer’s resignation: that the president has confidence in him or else he would not be Attorney General: famous last words.
I am not sure what a discredited figure like Sean Spicer can do in the political world, but he would surely receive a multi-million-dollar advance were he to write a tell-all book about the disorder and disarray administration, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
I would not ordinarily be inclined to be sympathetic to a minister of propaganda like Sean Spicer, but I have some compassion for him, given what he endured for six months which must have seemed like 60 years.
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair