How To Lose An Election

Last Friday, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had already left for the weekend when President Donald Trump canceled press pool credentials for MSNOW, CNN, and Politico.

Now, the question is, was the president simply left unattended too long? Because you know what happens when he gets bored.

In addition to Wiles being MIA, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt had just stepped down.

So there was nobody in the room, as far as I can tell, but Natalie Harp.

Or is Trump in a rage about his repeated failures and taking it out on the media? Which one is it, Neil?

Can it be both? I mean, isn't it his rage is allowed to go where it wants when he's left unattended? Because his rage is doing what it's doing all the time.

But I think Susie Wiles is spending most of her working hours reining it in.

But probably once she gets in the car and leaves for the weekend, things like this happen.

Well, you know, I've always liked Susie Wiles, and I'd love to put her in a nice flannel shirt, but I can't imagine having cancer and having to take care of Donald Trump at the same time.

I mean, she deserves some kind of a prize.

That prize probably doesn't exist, right?

Yeah, angel wings or something.

Well, we shouldn't mean it in that way, but, you know, she definitely is – Yeah, what a thing to have to face both of those, which she finds more challenging.

What do we think about what's happening here? I mean, it's like literally breaking news.

I saw that a Politico reporter had his hard pass press credential confiscated this morning from a Secret Service agent.

There's judges issuing orders.

And where do we stand with it as of this moment?

Well, I would say the good news is that all of the outlets in the press pool and listeners, what the press pool is, is representatives from different outlets that then get video and audio and photographs and do all sorts of reporting for everybody else because the press has to pay to to follow the president.

Therefore, you cannot have like 150 people following the president.

So the press pool is really, really important in terms of everybody's news coverage.

And what was really impressive from my point of view is that the other outlets, including Fox News, decided that they were going to boycott the press pool until the White House reversed this or until this was reversed, thus depriving the president of his favorite thing, attention.

Now, what did Trump do in response to the boycott then?

Well, they've launched their own YouTube channel called Trump TV, of course.

So I actually clicked on it and had to look.

Apparently, there's 3 million subscribers, which I don't know if that's a lot or a little.