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suffragette

(12,232 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 04:56 AM Feb 2017

"At least two candidates have turned down the job of White House communications director."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-white-house-communications-234813

Controlling the message coming out of Donald Trump’s White House may seem like an impossible task — and it’s one that many are hesitant to try right now.

The White House has gone without a full-time communications director since Trump was sworn in last month, and although chief of staff Reince Priebus is spearheading a robust effort to fill the position, his overtures to several Republican communications professionals have been met with a lack of interest, according to a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the situation. At least two candidates have turned down the job, a position normally coveted by Washington political operatives, according to another source familiar with the conversations.



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Cha

(297,275 posts)
1. ".. blah blah controlling the message out of the wh blah blah.."
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 05:25 AM
Feb 2017

Batting the LIES right @ the press corp. Melissa shows us how it's done.

Thank you, suffragette

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
2. Melissa has been adept at communicating, for sure. She has been brilliant and clearly bugs the
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 06:17 AM
Feb 2017

he'll out of them. Love it!

It's telling that people are turning them down for what would usually be a prime position.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
13. And Obama had a separate Director of Communications. Spicer is supposedly working both
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 12:14 PM
Feb 2017

positions and clearly sucking at both.

Butterflylady

(3,544 posts)
4. I wish
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 07:05 AM
Feb 2017

they wouldn't use the words " Donald Trumps White House", that's our White House. He doesn't and never will belong there.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
8. Yeah, I hate hearing/reading that too. Also makes my blood boil when I hear him referred to
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 07:28 AM
Feb 2017

as president tRump. One can only imagine the size of his ego, now.

underpants

(182,826 posts)
10. So Kellyanne will just continue soaking up tax money being a PR hack?
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 08:17 AM
Feb 2017

She's become so omnipresent that we forget that no other administration, that I know of, has had a person in a position like that. They have Spicer as a spokesperson AND her on the air all the time.

dae

(3,396 posts)
14. This is the first WH to have 2 because one covers real news outlets
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 12:52 PM
Feb 2017

while the other insures fake news gets real messaging out to all sTrumpets.

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