White House press secretary Sean Spicer holds up paperwork highlighting and comparing language about the National Security Council from the Trump administration and previous administrations, at the White House on Jan. 30. The story of the National Security Council reorganization is a good case in point. Normally, an honest misunderstanding of this kind would be quickly sorted out in normal contacts between reporters and White House staff. The White House, on the other hand, looks utterly unable to coherently explain its own policies. Some quiet, professional, off-camera communication between White House staff and reporters — the mechanism that has usually ensured that the truth eventually gets out in previous presidencies — would help.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2017 00:44 UTC