‘Cloistered in the White House, He Now Has Little Access to His Fans and Supporters’
President Donald Trump is hitting back at a scathing New York Times report that describes him as a “cloistered” alone at night in the White House, tweeting and “watching television in his bathrobe.” The Times also takes on Trump’s advisors, in this embarrassing opening:
“Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room. Visitors conclude their meetings and then wander around, testing doorknobs until finding one that leads to an exit. In a darkened, mostly empty West Wing, Mr. Trump’s provocative chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, finishes another 16-hour day planning new lines of attack.”
President Trump, as he always does, drew attention to the report, tweeting:
Of course, the Times is far from failing. In fact, the “Grey Lady,” as the paper is often called, has seen subscriptions skyrocket since Trump was elected.
Citing “administration officials and Trump insiders,” the Times’ report refers to the Trump administration’s “bungled rollout of his executive order barring immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a flurry of other miscues and embarrassments, and an approval rating lower than that of any comparable first-term president in the history of polling,” claiming those factors “have Mr. Trump and his top staff rethinking an improvisational approach to governing that mirrors his chaotic presidential campaign.”
And the paper also reports this sad observation:
Cloistered in the White House, he now has little access to his fans and supporters — an important source of feedback and validation — and feels increasingly pinched by the pressures of the job and the constant presence of protests, one of the reasons he was forced to scrap a planned trip to Milwaukee last week. For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon.
Pete Souza, President Barack Obama’s official White House photographer whose images of the 44th President are often brilliant, evocative, and capture the essence of the nation’s first African American Commander in Chief, clearly trolled Trump’s aides Monday on Instagram, posting this image with the caption, “Those damn lights ;)”:
Oops.
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