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By Ashley Parker January 21 at 10:00 PM
In late July, the White House had just finished an official policy review on transgender individuals serving in the military and President Trump and his then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus, had agreed to meet in the Oval Office to discuss the four options awaiting the president in a decision memo.
But then Trump unexpectedly preempted the conversation and sent his entire administration scrambling, by tweeting out his own decision that the government would not allow transgender individuals to serve just moments later.
Oh my God, he just tweeted this, Priebus said, according to a new book by Howard Kurtz, who hosts Fox Newss Media Buzz. There was, Kurtz writes, no longer a need for the meeting.
The White House and the politerati diaspora has just barely stopped reeling from author Michael Wolffs account of life in Trumps West Wing, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and now another life-in-the-White-House book is about to drop, this one from Kurtz.
Like the books that came before it, and almost certainly like the ones still to come, Kurtzs book, Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, And The War Over The Truth, offers a portrait of a White House riven by chaos, with aides scrambling to respond to the presidents impulses and writing policy to fit his tweets, according to excerpts obtained by The Washington Post.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/defiance-disorder-another-new-book-portrays-chaos-in-trumps-white-house/2018/01/21/9362d160-febd-11e7-93f5-53a3a47824e8_story.html
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)ever watch old Howie weekends on FOX....no ..no..no....don't make him any richer.
yardwork
(61,538 posts)So far we've heard from Fox News hacks and lite "journalists" whose previous work was so flattering of Trump they were allowed access to the West Wing.
Imagine what we might learn if an actual journalist was allowed in.