Kayleigh McEnany is not the White House press secretary, not under any previous definition of the job. We include Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders in that assessment because as awful as they were (and there were awful) neither of them had the smug-ass, mean girl, arrogance that Kayleigh shows as effortlessly as she shows her skin. Kayleigh is actually the Trump campaign spokesperson, just paid a fortune by us.

The White House doesn’t like Brian Karem, which means Kayleigh doesn’t like Karem. Brian is a brilliant reporter who has worked the White House and political beat for twenty years. Indeed, he is the one that asked “the question” yesterday – as plainly as it needed to be asked – about Trump peacefully transitioning from power should he lose. As we all know, Trump’s answer didn’t sit well with Americans who prefer democracy to Trump, and that even includes a few Republicans in the Senate, who pushed back. (Not that they’ll push back when Trump actually does it – don’t be silly, they just pushed back on him saying it.)

Karem has also written quite a few articles of late about the dark mood in the White House and its inner dysfunction.

They do not like anyone who writes anything that might reflect poorly upon them, even if it’s true.

Brian writes for Playboy magazine. (Do they even have a magazine anymore or is it just the net? We don’t know.) All we know is that he writes brilliantly. Believe it or not, that’s to be expected with his employer. Playboy’s list of writers over the decades reads like the dream team of American public intellectuals. Some people actually did, and still do, read it for the articles. Here is a list of the legacy Karem inherited. Pro-tip, it’s legit.

For the record: @playboy writers include: Hunter S. Thompson, Ian Fleming, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Roald Dahl, Joseph Heller, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am a humble member of this family and encourage @realDonaldTrump to read us pic.twitter.com/3PJZa3ncHH

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September 24, 2020

At least one of those people actually did win a Nobel Prize, which Trump can’t claim and every single one of them contributed genius work in their time.

Anyway, Kayleigh damned well knows Brian Karem’s name. He is a marked man in the White House. So, today, when calling on him, Kayleigh unloaded her best “head cheerleader attitude” him.

Notice how @PressSec tries to discredit @BrianKarem’s question by repeatedly & loudly referring to the *Playboy* reporter. Given her boss, Trump, stands accused of having an affair with a Playboy Playmate & then offering her hush money, it’s maybe not the gotcha she thinks it is. https://t.co/Xsp6BGwGc7

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 24, 2020

As we said, straight “mean girl” – and she even has the look, skin and all.

Obviously, she meant to embarrass Karem. But she also did it to slightly influence her evangelical MAGA head base (none of whom don’t read Playboy and probably don’t look at the pics, too mild, not to mention, too hetero). She also did it to imply that he was from some cheap mag because some people actually don’t know that Playboy has always had an elite stable of writers.

Had she said “Yes, the Daily Caller reporter?” now that would be a true humiliation. But in this White House, up is down and down is up. The very expensive-looking K-Mac is actually just cheap shiny crap.

I don’t understand how someone can be this rude to journalists when her job is to interface with journalists

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— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) September 24, 2020

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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