We revert back to a few “after-action” or “bomb-damage assessments” in the transition from the Trump White House to the Biden White House. The one thing that the White House media beat will not miss is the juvenile, incompetent, and often terrifying characteristics of the godforsaken place. We would certainly love to move on but some work remains.

No one reported from the White House better than Olivia Nuzzi, the New York Magazine’s White House correspondent. Like all of us, she looks forward to the challenge of writing in the Biden era, without so much low-hanging fruit to bat around, we have to be more creative. But the articles coming out now that Biden is in office, remind us why we fought to get Biden in office in the first place. We knew Trump was horrific and Biden will be boring, we just don’t know how it all played out and how it will impact Biden.

Americans are entitled to get rid of a White House in which “the most important thing to the president of the United States was gossip,” according to Nuzzi in her latest podcast interview with Mediaite. We have to almost giggle. We suspect that Trump worried about “gossip” a lot, principally because he wanted to be the first to hear if anyone was getting too close to the truth. In our opinion, the interest in gossip wasn’t interest in the subject of gossip, Trump likely wanted to protect his own ass, one which hung precariously over a cliff throughout the four years.

According to Nuzzi:

“In the beginning it was just an extremely crowded, busy place with all of these people who hated each other, hated themselves, hated him, eager to spend all of their time trying to knife each other in the press with leaks or to knife him.”

That is entertaining to hear. They acted like they loved all things MAGA and Trump except the other people who were all things MAGA and hated Trump? So it was all an act? We hated all of them, good to know that they felt the same way about each other. But we weren’t acting, so what’s their excuse?

These White House MAGAs still don’t get it:

“In the immediate term, January 6 makes it… impossible for the kind of typical revolving door with cable contracts and all of that to happen,” she said. “I was talking to someone last weekend who was saying immediately, it’s impossible, I’m not going to get hired by CNN or MSNBC as a commentator. But maybe nine months from now I’ll be able to do that.”

Maybe in nine months? Maybe in nine months, the FBI will still be uncovering more and more horrific truths about the Trump White House, the insurrection, and – we still firmly believe, Trump’s entanglements with Russia (though none have been proven quite yet). But even without the above, no one is forgetting what happened in January.

No, these backstabbing people who hated each other, hated themselves, hated Trump, and traded in gossip, are going to have to make a living ensconced in MAGA land where they hate each other and backstab while trading in gossip. There will be no mainstreaming these people and that’s just one reason to keep an eye on them and remind ourselves with after-action reports why they shouldn’t be allowed into acceptable society.

Nice job, Nuzzi.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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