Ultimately, in the view of Washington insiders, Priebus couldn’t win the respect of the president or his staff. “He was younger than Trump, he didn’t command the room,” said Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent of the New York Times. “Nobody was afraid of him. Nobody had any compunction about going around him, about crossing him. Reince had never been in government, didn’t really seem to understand how to make it work, and never gained the respect of his president in a way that would allow him to be an effective chief of staff.”
