For Trump, the Reality Show Has Never Ended

The following article by Peter Baker was posted on the New York Times website October 10, 2017:

Mr. Trump said on Tuesday that he still had confidence in Rex W. Tillerson, his secretary of state. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, President Trump was accused by a Republican senator of running the White House like a “reality show.”In the 48 hours that followed, this is how the president rebutted the characterization.

He called out the offending senator for being short and sounding like “a fool.” He challenged his secretary of state to an I.Q. contest and insisted he would win. He celebrated the downfall of a critic who was suspended from her job. And his first wife and third wife waged a public war of words over who was really his first lady. Continue reading “For Trump, the Reality Show Has Never Ended”