Kayleigh McEnany

Of the past press secretaries, Sean Spicer's first briefing was an hour and 18 minutes.

Kayleigh McEnany's the shortest at 32 minutes.

Uh, of course, Stephanie Grisham held no briefings.

She was on the job for much more than five days.

This is after weeks of Karoline Leavitt, the former press secretary, leaving the White House, and she was fairly decent at the job.

In my opinion, uh, Kayleigh McEnany was the best.

Uh, she was able to not only go back and forth with reporters, not in an annoying way, but in a way that she was able to stand her ground.

And so part of being the press secretary is to defend the administration, at least this is with the modern presidency.

Of course, this ends up being propagandized.

You're effectively propagandizing for the administration, whether it's a Republican or Democrat administration.

But compared to Karoline Leavitt, Kayleigh McEnany was able to have a fluid back and forth, whereas Karoline Leavitt, and this is more so because of the current state of the situation that we're in, which is the Epstein files, the Iran war, it was much more difficult for Karoline Leavitt to defend the actions of the administration.

I'll give her that.

Six homes were impacted.

Kayleigh McEnany's out as White House Press Secretary, posting Friday night, quote, "An honor to work for President Trump." She's only been on the job for a week, and has been taking a ton of backlash for that briefing and for her biography saying that she had been a lawyer when we now know that she did not pass the bar in California.

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pressMatt Freedman is a founder of Tanner Freedman Strategic Communications.

He has decades of experience in this rurl- in this world of public relations, of strategic communications, um, emergency communications, and he says there were bigger problems than just what happened at the podium for Kayleigh McEnany.

Nothing about this situation is surprising.

When people compare this to the Anthony Scaramucci tenure, there's something significant that this and that have in common, which is a completely inexperienced candidate was hired for what is usually the most challenging public relations job in the country.

Uh, and President Trump, obviously, when it comes to people like the press secretary role, really likes to have the type of folks that mirror his image and are unwavering in pushing the president's agenda and obviously handling a hostile press.

So I made a lot of assumptions around that because I looked at the track record around who Trump has chosen as his female press secretaries, and Sarah Sanders was great, and Kayleigh McEnany was great.

And obviously, Karoline, I just talked about.

So you just figured that this would go well as well, and it didn't.

Yep.

Karolina, uh, Lebek and Kayleigh McEnany, they, they seemed to set the pace.

They set the tone.

And both of them had an inner peace that she didn't seem to have.

Yep.

Karolina, uh, Levitt and Kayleigh McEnany, they, they seemed to set the pace.

They set the tone, and both of them had an inner peace that she didn't seem to have.

Yeah, I agree.

But of course, everything looks easier from the outside looking in, right? When you're on the inside, and depends on how prepared one is, and I don't know that that's a matter of just you 'cause you got a whole shop behind you, right? As press secretary.

And I remember Kayleigh McEnany, who I think was also amazing at that job, uh, just as Caroline Leavitt was.

She would come in with that binder.

That binder was packed, and she had...

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Kayleigh McEnany, she's fired.

[laughs] Yeah.

It was a very memorable appearance, wasn't it?