Diary 158

Sunday, August 23rd

KellyAnne Conway is leaving the White House, I’m informed. She’ll be replaced by two or three other people, no doubt. What astonishes me, though, is the way these White House presenters can say what they say without a twitch, without a blush, without bursting out laughing – and make it all seem reasonable.

I wonder what they’re like in private life. I wonder how their spouses or children deal with them. Imagine it: “No, I did not wreck the car. It’s just undergoing some updates, which it needed anyway. These were scheduled updates, just like any car. To say that it had to be towed out of a ditch after hitting a phone pole is a misrepresentation. It was taken to the garage by a professional service, and the decisions were made there…”