{"id":35879,"date":"2019-03-09T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35879"},"modified":"2019-03-09T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T04:24:08","slug":"its-no-longer-shine-ing-in-wh-communications-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35879","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no longer &#8216;Shine&#8217;-ing in WH communications office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35880\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bill-shine.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Shine is gone from the White House communications office.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the fifth such communications director to come and go in little more than two years of the Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>What gives here?<\/p>\n<p>Shine is moving to the Trump re-election campaign as a senior adviser. He gets to spend more time with his family, or so it&#8217;s been reported.<\/p>\n<p>As for the communications operation, well . . . this White House needs one. Badly. Bigly. Whatever. However, it doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/08\/bill-shine-resigns-will-join-trump-campaign-1213083\">No more Shine at WH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to ask: Does the president <em>want<\/em> a communications operation? He damn sure <em>needs<\/em> one, given the chaos and confusion that emanates daily &#8212; if not hourly &#8212; from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Tradition has been tossed into the crapper by this president. One traditional item involves a communications office that coordinates the message being delivered by the White House. It ain&#8217;t happening with this operation.<\/p>\n<p>The president sends out a Twitter message communicating policy on a whim and an impulse. The communications office is caught flat-footed, unable to catch up with what Trump is saying.<\/p>\n<p>Shine came aboard after serving a stint as an executive with the Fox News Channel, the president&#8217;s media outlet of choice. I guess Shine&#8217;s Fox connection wasn&#8217;t enough to keep him at his new White House post for very long.<\/p>\n<p>The word is that Trump and Shine never really developed much of a bond. Imagine that. Near as I can tell, the president doesn&#8217;t develop personal bonds with anyone who&#8217;s not named &#8220;Trump&#8221; or who is not married to someone with a Trump name.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever future awaits this president, the smart money now suggests that Donald Trump well might be his own communications director.<\/p>\n<p>Oh . . . brother. This&#8217;ll be fun to watch.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shine is gone from the White House communications office. He&#8217;s the fifth such communications director to come and go in little more than two years of the Donald Trump administration. What gives here? Shine is moving to the Trump re-election campaign as a senior adviser. He gets to spend more time with his family, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s no longer &#8216;Shine&#8217;-ing in WH communications office<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8448,1424,1788,7190],"class_list":["post-35879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-shine","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-white-house-communications-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35881,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879\/revisions\/35881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}