At the White House
STEPPING ON THE SOTU: President Trump is supposed to own the news cycle today, when he will deliver his third joint address to Congress. The occasion is prepackaged to allow the president to sell a positive message around his administration’s successes and lay out a compelling agenda for the year ahead — something for Congress to rally around.
The State of the Union might be a constitutional obligation but it’s a speech that Trump has been looking forward to, according to the New York Times’s Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman, for “all of the pomp and circumstance that accompany it with some reverence.” But behind-the-scenes, chaos is roiling the White House once again after a prolific leak to Axios on Sunday of Trump’s private schedule for the past three months. It showed the president spends 60 percent of his scheduled hours in what former Chief of Staff John F. Kelly dubbed “Executive Time.”
But Trump might want to apply Marie Kondo’s method to tidy up his White House, keeping only those staffers who “spark joy.”
View the complete February 5 article by Jacqueline Alemany on The Washington Post website here.