I'm sure that I could come up with a meaty list of verbal gaffes that I've made in my life. Usually when we make errors like this it's funny and you laugh it off and go on, but the first of White House press secretary Sean Spicer's two gaffes today is a concern.
In that gaffe, while defending the military strike on Syria, Mr. Spicer said that Hitler..."didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." When questioned later on this absurd statement he stumbled again. My question is this...was the name Hitler mentioned in a pre-press briefing briefing...or did Mr. Spicer just terribly ad lib? If it was an ad lib OK....we all make mistakes...but if he was told that he might mention Hitler in the press briefing if he gets the chance then we have yet another problem with an administration condescending to us as if we were just les miserables.
Gaffe number two was definitely a verbal typo. Mr. Spicer came back out to explain his first gaffe but made another in saying that he did not want to distract......"in any shape or form the president's decisive action in Syria and the attempt he is making to destabilize the region."
Let me make this clear...it is not the attack on the Syrian air base in itself that is the main issue.....it's the people behind the decision-making that is the issue. A number of talk show hosts are going ballistic defending the decision on Syria but in doing so they seem totally oblivious to the people that are around Donald Trump....the people that he specifically chose to be around him....that will be part of dozens if not hundreds of equally major decisions in the future. They say that we are abandoning the president at the first sign of trouble.......we say that they apparently gave up thinking on election day.
The following is an opinion post from Michael Goodwin that will probably be in tomorrow's New York Post.....When I asked the President Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon, who took over the campaign in mid-August, I did not get a definitive yes. "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,” Trump said. “I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.”
Folks this is typical Donald Trump. His statement is flippant...arrogant...and adolescent. He would be signing a book deal and starting a new TV show now without Steve Bannon. Pack your bags Steve...either that or buy a good pair of hip boots.
In that gaffe, while defending the military strike on Syria, Mr. Spicer said that Hitler..."didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." When questioned later on this absurd statement he stumbled again. My question is this...was the name Hitler mentioned in a pre-press briefing briefing...or did Mr. Spicer just terribly ad lib? If it was an ad lib OK....we all make mistakes...but if he was told that he might mention Hitler in the press briefing if he gets the chance then we have yet another problem with an administration condescending to us as if we were just les miserables.
Gaffe number two was definitely a verbal typo. Mr. Spicer came back out to explain his first gaffe but made another in saying that he did not want to distract......"in any shape or form the president's decisive action in Syria and the attempt he is making to destabilize the region."
Let me make this clear...it is not the attack on the Syrian air base in itself that is the main issue.....it's the people behind the decision-making that is the issue. A number of talk show hosts are going ballistic defending the decision on Syria but in doing so they seem totally oblivious to the people that are around Donald Trump....the people that he specifically chose to be around him....that will be part of dozens if not hundreds of equally major decisions in the future. They say that we are abandoning the president at the first sign of trouble.......we say that they apparently gave up thinking on election day.
The following is an opinion post from Michael Goodwin that will probably be in tomorrow's New York Post.....When I asked the President Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon, who took over the campaign in mid-August, I did not get a definitive yes. "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,” Trump said. “I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.”
Folks this is typical Donald Trump. His statement is flippant...arrogant...and adolescent. He would be signing a book deal and starting a new TV show now without Steve Bannon. Pack your bags Steve...either that or buy a good pair of hip boots.
