ARLENE P. DONAIRE

A WAYWARD swinging pendulum is what I like to use as visual reference for the logic or absence of it in some presidential pronouncements. Others would call the presidential style of communicating and the automatic “mopping-up operations” by official spokespersons a circus or comedy of sorts. Either way, while it is not something that is unheard of, as we’ve seen other presidents in the past commit slip-ups in their public talks and then have their staff retract, sugarcoat, or redirect blame, it is noticeably more the norm than the exception in the current administration.

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