I have determined that the worst job in Washington, D.C., is one that should be the most fun. It is the White House communications director.
Bill Shine is leaving that post in the Donald J. Trump administration. Shine is the fifth individual to have served as communications director in the two years of Trump’s time as president.
Let’s see, I can think of Hope Hicks, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci . . . OK, I’ve lost track of the rest of them prior to Shine.
I just know that there have been five of them. Who’s next? Who in the world would want the job?
It’s being reported that Shine — a former protĂ©gĂ© of the late Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News — had fallen out of favor with the president in the weeks prior to his sudden resignation; he is going to work as a senior adviser to the Trump re-election campaign.
I guess evidence of Shine’s lack of input into Trump’s communication strategy must rest in that hideous rambling rant the president gave a week ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump set a presidential speech record, blabbing unscripted for 2 hours, 2 minutes at CPAC. It was, to put it bluntly, a ghastly performance.
Do you think Shine had any say in that demonstration of Donald Trump at his worst? I do not think so.
The question then becomes: Who in the world would ever want to take on the job of managing this president’s communications strategy? This individual, the president, is unmanageable. He is incoherent and he is incorrigible.
Yep, this is what Donald Trump calls his “fine-tuned machine.”
Yikes.
