Posted on 07/17/2020 2:03:23 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
A Reuters photograph of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s vast briefing binder offered a peek behind the curtain of the Trump administration’s messaging priorities.
Taken from the side of the White House briefing room podium, the photograph catches McEnany opening the book, exposing dozens of alphabetized tabs with short category names. During her tenure, McEnany has developed a reputation for flipping open her briefing book after a particularly confrontational question and reading verbatim from pre-written responses, which often included canned attacks on the press or praise from allies.
In the photo taken at Thursday’s White House briefing, McEnany’s tabs include a number evergreen topics, but several recent ones as well. “Covid” and “Test” as well as “PPE,” “Masks,” “CDC,” and “Cases” suggest a healthy amount of prepared remarks on the raging pandemic. But also included in the binder were more ephemeral topics, like “Goya” about the controversy over the Trump-led counter-backlash to a liberal boycott of the food company, “Mary” which, presumably, refers to the president’s niece and her damning tell-all book, and “Hogan,” which likely alluded to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s scathing Washington Post essay condemning Trump’s pandemic response. Also included were notable files on former President Barack “Obama,” as well as subjects used to frequently criticize Trump like “Golf,” “Russia,” “Hate,” and a misspelled “Meuller.”
But many of the tabs spoke to this White House’s favorite boogeymen, with categories such as “Media,” “Lies,” “China,” “BLM,” “Privil” suggesting white privilege, and one simply labeled “Absurd.” “Statues” was also included as was “LGBT.” Notably, one tab was labeled “Karl,” which might be an oppo brief against ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl, who has frequently clashed with Trump at press conferences.
Finally, in what appeared to be the last tab, at the bottom of the book, was one labeled “Wins.”
This could be a stand alone post. A must watch! Thanks for the link.
Who. Cares. Nobody but the leftist media.
Unlike the media, who follow only their master’s scripts/bidding, she comes prepared! Oh! The huge manatee!
Then she turns to her asst off-stage and calmly says; "Bring me the big binder".
What?
Now that's a person who sure knows how to direct her staff and use her resources wisely. She's executive material - should be in a Cabinet-level position by the end of TrumpT2. She could be President in a decade.
They would’ve Loved to have gotten the scoop on this story. RIP Woodward and Bernstein.
thanks for all the comments. I suspected when I posted it, all would get some enjoyment.
Thank you for posting - I didn’t know this!!
Perv
This assumes all the labeled tabs are accurate and there aren’t “hidden” tabs dealing with other topics.
I hope she suckers them in.
So? What’s the big deal?
She doesn’t need a tab for that, it comes naturally.
Now I understand how Kayleigh McEnany manages to summon the courage and resolve to do an amazing job as White House Press Secretary. This is a truly remarkable woman in so many aspects of her life.
'I Believe God Put Me in This Place for a Purpose': New WH Press Secretary on Faith, Love of Country
Why not? There has never in American history been a more hostile and conniving press than what the Trump administration has endured. Truly underhanded, vile hyenas - all of them!
Shouldn’t show your playing cards...not a good move
I can hear the press now.....”Oh my god she’s too organized!” Next press conference with no notebook “Oh my god she’s not organized at all!”.
Yes Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”
A very good read. My chain of command was impressed that a junior enlisted as myself
had read it. I also had autographed copies of We Were Soldiers, and Band Of Brothers on the shelf.
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