White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp will soon leave the West Wing to join President Trump’s 2020 reelection team, Trump announced in a tweet Monday evening.
I am excited to announce that @MercedesSchlapp will soon be joining our Campaign. She feels so strongly about our Country & its future. We are setting records in so many ways, & we will keep it going. Mercedes has done a fantastic job within the Administration & I am so thankful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2019
Both Schlapp’s husband Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union, and Campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about the move. Schlapp’s husband likened her work for the campaign to fighting “socialism” in the U.S.
2 yrs ago @mercedesschlapp took on a tough task to improve WH comms ops and now she is ready for a new challenge outside govt. Like her Cuban Dad’s response to Castro, she will keep helping @realDonaldTrump to fight socialism here. The Schlapps remain all in for 2020! #KAG
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) July 1, 2019
I’m excited to welcome @mercedesschlapp to the 2020 campaign. She is an effective communicator that will help us with strategy as well as Latino outreach with her bilingual capabilities. We are good friends and it's great to have another die-hard @realDonaldTrump supporter!
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) July 1, 2019
The move was reportedly expected, according to the New York Times. With Stephanie Grisham’s appointment as communications director and White House press secretary, a number of changes in the press shop are expected, according to the Times. The moves are in part fueled by Trump’s ongoing irritation: despite the number of people in the press shop, he’s still plagued by negative coverage.
Schlapp told the Times she’d been in talks with White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner for several weeks.
First if Trump wants better coverage he needs to do better things.
Second if Mercedes couldn’t deliver the kind of coverage that flattered Trump for his first 2 and 1/2 years then she will not deliver “better coverage” during his re-election.
Third well at least she’s not drawing a publicly funded paycheck, she’s on Trump’s payroll now.
A woman named Mercedes is going to fight “socialism.”
Let her start with the battle against Medicare. After that she can campaign against week-ends.
All Dems running for office need to make clear how a second term of tRump would insure the absolute destruction of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security since the GOP had yet to get around to destroying those things in tRump’s first term even though, with the help of McTurtle, they tried. And once again, GOPers will lie through their teeth to the electorate about their plans to take away those programs from all Americans. The only kind of socialism the GOP likes is corporate welfare, like subsidies to BigAG while family farmers are shit out of luck when crops fail and tariffs are imposed that affect their bottom line. They’re perfectly OK with that.
As soon as they passed their tax cuts for the 1% they realized those idiotic cuts didn’t pay for themselves. But that was never the plan anyway. Just a ruse to give tax breaks to the wealthy. So you can be sure they’ll be gunning for those socialist programs that most Americans love, to pay for their tax cuts and the outrageous debt they imposed on the country. The GOP lied during the midterms about going after those programs, but a second term will insure that they’ll go after those programs as much as they have science in the public interest, clean air, clean water and maintaining our public lands.
Yes, and they’d need a majority in the House to fully achieve this goal.
I’d guess the vast majority of legislators who voted for it knew before they cast their votes. And many of them probably considered it a good thing.
Trickle down was debunked a long fucking time ago. Its always been a bogus claim where the vast majority of Americans get pissed on regularly when its been advanced as a legitimate economic theory. We’ll need a Democratic Senate and President to come in once again to fix the economic mess the GOP has created.
Wash, rinse, repeat.