Opinion: Bill Shine quits amid Trump’s anger over bad press. Maybe that’s Trump’s fault?
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 8 at 3:16 PM We have been told for two years now that President Trump possesses magical political powers. When a bad news story comes along, Trump’s Twitter thumbs spring into action, and with one mighty tweet of “FAKE NEWS,” the president smites the offending story out of existence.
A former president of Fox News and protege of the late Roger Ailes, Shine, 55, was recruited to the White House last July by Trump to help buff the president’s public image and direct his communications strategy. Spicer has long since been discarded for failing to magically get the independent media to adequately reflect Trump’s greatness, and now Shine, too, has proved unable to please him in this regard. The Daily Beast reports that Sean Hannity, one of Trump’s most devoted propagandists outside the White House, had originally sold Trump on bringing in Shine. But according to a former Fox executive, Trump decided that he’d been “sold a bill of goods.” Shine couldn’t get it done.
Then there’s the trade deficit in goods. It has now ballooned to its largest point in U.S. history. This is a fact that Trump’s own Commerce Department announced. It has always been idiotic of Trump to invest this metric with the importance that he has, but he did that, and so he is failing by a metric that he established for himself, out of folly and ignorance. No amount of magical spinning can make that disappear, either.
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