White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp will soon leave the West Wing to join President Trump’s 2020 reelection team, Trump announced in a tweet Monday evening.
With Stephanie Grisham appointment as communications director and White House press secretary, a number of changes in the press shop are expected, according to the Times. The moves are in-part fueled by Trump ongoing irritation: despite the number of people in the press shop, he’s still plagued by negative coverage.
Schlapp told the Times she’d been in talks with White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner for several weeks.
First if Trump wants better coverage he needs to do better things.
Second if Mercedes couldn’t deliver the kind of coverage that flattered Trump for his first 2 and 1/2 years then she will not deliver “better coverage” during his re-election.
Third well at least she’s not drawing a publicly funded paycheck, she’s on Trump’s payroll now.
A woman named Mercedes is going to fight “socialism.”
Let her start with the battle against Medicare. After that she can campaign against week-ends.
All Dems running for office need to make clear how a second term of tRump would insure the absolute destruction of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security since the GOP had yet to get around to destroying those things in tRump’s first term even though, with the help of McTurtle, they tried. And once again, GOPers will lie through their teeth to the electorate about their plans to take away those programs from all Americans. The only kind of socialism the GOP likes is corporate welfare, like subsidies to BigAG while family farmers are shit out of luck when crops fail and tariffs are imposed that affect their bottom line. They’re perfectly OK with that.
As soon as they passed their tax cuts for the 1% they realized those idiotic cuts didn’t pay for themselves. But that was never the plan anyway. Just a ruse to give tax breaks to the wealthy. So you can be sure they’ll be gunning for those socialist programs that most Americans love, to pay for their tax cuts and the outrageous debt they imposed on the country. The GOP lied during the midterms about going after those programs, but a second term will insure that they’ll go after those programs as much as they have science in the public interest, clean air, clean water and maintaining our public lands.
Yes, and they’d need a majority in the House to fully achieve this goal.
I’d guess the vast majority of legislators who voted for it knew before they cast their votes. And many of them probably considered it a good thing.
Trickle down was debunked a long fucking time ago. Its always been a bogus claim where the vast majority of Americans get pissed on regularly when its been advanced as a legitimate economic theory. We’ll need a Democratic Senate and President to come in once again to fix the economic mess the GOP has created.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
That’s the most heart-breaking part of the story.
As Krugman calls it, the “zombie lie.” We need to crush the GOP in 2020 so that it goes the way of the Whigs.
Being named Ivanka would have been too far over the top…
Boy it sure sounds like there are quite a few management types on 45* 's 2020 campaign. Who actually gets the coffee with so many top level remittance staff there?