President Trump’s transition team is no doubt busy picking potential White House staff officials for the next administration, but he shouldn’t bother too much with figuring out his next press secretary. In fact, it’s best that he eliminate the position altogether.
White House press secretaries are supposed to field inquiries from the news media and keep reporters abreast of administrative affairs, but that’s not how people see the press secretary’s job anymore, thanks to our godawful, not-dead-yet Washington press corp. Most people now know the press secretary as the official who stands at a podium almost daily and answers a series of mindless questions from reporters who hope to be seen on TV with a daring facial expression.
To wit, the most insufferable part of Trump’s first term by far was the daily press briefing. It’s how dopes like CNN’s Jim Acosta and PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor became somewhat household names. What’s supposed to be an informative and fairly blasé event was used by these freaks to get famous by asking stupidly confrontational questions every single day, including questions to the effect of “Why do you disagree with the Statue of Liberty?”
In 2017, Acosta literally quoted the text on the statue before accusing then-White House adviser Stephen Miller of “trying to change what it means to be an immigrant” by expecting foreigners to speak English and contribute meaningfully to society.
In 2020, Alcindor literally asked then-U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to respond to nobodies on social media who pretended to
