Donald Trump and Hogan Gidley. Photo: AFP via Getty Images On the morning of May 19, Larry Kudlow was booked as a guest on the Fox Business channel. This in itself wasn’t unusual. As the National Economic Council director, the former CNBC host is a natural show pony in the stable of officials whose duties entail regular appearances on cable TV to sell President Donald Trump’s ideas and defend or explain away his statements to the ever-shrinking numbers of persuadable Americans.
This would never have happened “in a normal White House,” said Gene Sperling, the NEC director for presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. “A new policy development would have gone through a rigorous deputies level and principles policy process,” he said. There would’ve been meetings with the president to work out the particulars. Then meetings to sort out the delicate task of how to announce it.
Five months from Election Day, the campaign is failing to weather the storms the president brought to ground. Trump is sinking in the national polls, an average of ten percentage points behind the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden. At this same time in the last election, Hillary Clinton led Trump by the much less decisive average of three percentage points.
Gidley, now 43, arrived at the White House as a supporting character in the volatile second season. A onetime broadcast-journalism major at Ole Miss and a student of political media, he ended up reporting on Mike Huckabee for a TV station in Little Rock, Arkansas, before defecting to the dark side to join the then-governor’s staff. “He’s got professional integrity. He will never do something that is wrong or immoral,” Huckabee told New York.
“In some ways he’s a killer, but he’s not a viper,” one senior administration official said. “You have certain people who you don’t want to have in meetings because then things end up in the press. Hogan’s definitely somebody who people trust. He’s in the inner circle … He understands the president, he’s not trying to change the president.” The official added that, over these last four years, “the president has become more aware of who in rooms you want to talk in front of and who you don’t.
His idiosyncrasies are the stuff of legend and comic relief among the West Wing staff and the Washington press corps. He is part Southern Gentleman, part slapstick bro, all in on the joke. He rises at 4:50 a.m. to work out and maintains a meticulous diet in which his every bite and sip are studiously accounted for, resulting in a muscular figure so unusually, invertedly pyramidal that he has to have his shirts custom-made.
There’s a reason why Gidley was removed from the White House. Going from working in the White House to working on a failing campaign is a demotion. Interesting article on how people ignore their principles to further their career. The entire Trump administration belongs in jail.
Olivianuzzi Depends on which way it's spiraling - sideways to the left, up?
Olivianuzzi Great piece. This guy defines 'All hat, no cattle.'
Olivianuzzi principal/principle
Olivianuzzi Trump’s central case for reelection — the strong economy — has evaporated faster than the tear gas the administration sprayed on peaceful demonstrators outside the White House in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. Not to mention his treason!
Olivianuzzi Define better
Olivianuzzi The only way Trump wins if he backs a new candidate
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Olivianuzzi LOL
Olivianuzzi Nope. He is done. A goner. Next stop. JAIL.
Olivianuzzi Don't count on it. He's an idiot.
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Olivianuzzi Who cares?
No
An anagram of his name is, Gay Dingle Ho. 😒
Only if he can erase every video and tweet of Trump for the last 3 years.
Has he ever?
Hogan to the rescue?
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