Reports that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's job is in danger continue to run rampant. This is in spite of Spicer's consistent willingness to make himself look like a fool for his boss, and it stands to reason; Donald Trump is ordering his team to go out and make patently stupid statements—then flies into a fury when his subordinates lying their asses off does not have the real-world effect the delusional Trump wanted.
[Der Pumpkinfuhrer] was still raging over what he viewed as Mr. Comey’s “witch hunt” against him — and blaming the bipartisan condemnation of his action on the failures of his embattled and overworked communications team.
Mr. Trump is growing increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus; the communications director, Michael Dubke; and Mr. Spicer, a Priebus ally, according to a half-dozen West Wing officials who said the president was considering the most far-reaching shake-up of his already tumultuous term.
(Side note: Yes, he was raging about the Russia investigation even as all his loyal surrogates, Mike Pence included, went before the public to deny the Russia investigation had a thing to do with the firing. Every one of those surrogates is themselves in this up to their eyeballs.)
It is impossible to feel sorry for any of the cretins willing to sabotage their own careers for the sake of a lying, delusional nut, so we're not going to bother trying. Spicer is, among the crew, on the thinnest ice of any of them, quite probably because he is simply the most visible. Sean Spicer asks Donald Trump what he should say, during each of the administration's many crises; Trump tells him; Spicer says it; Sean Spicer gets openly mocked by the nation's comedians and a good chunk of its pundits for saying such a stupid thing, upon which Donald Trump, a narcissist who believes his every action is godlike in its perfection, fumes about the poor public response and blames his team for not making it all work out.
[W]hile Mr. Trump has raised the Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle to allies as a possible press secretary, he has spent several hours with Mr. Spicer this week, praising his television “ratings” during the briefings.
Both parts of this sentence are stupid and should make Donald Trump feel bad. The supposed "adaptation skills" successful Trump teat-suckers have learned to employ should make the rest of us wake up in cold sweats every night, because his "successful" acolytes have internalized the message that the man is out of his gourd:
Campaign aides learned not to lean too much on his accounts of events, steering away from unequivocal public pronouncements unless they could point to his words.
That's right, America, Donald Trump's own staff has learned that he can't be trusted to relay even the most basic of information. This is, without a doubt, why his grown children attend every important daddy meeting; they are the Trump reality translators, needed in order to relay to staff what actually happened during meetings or what daddy theoretically decided because daddy himself cannot or will not tell the accurate truth about it an hour or a day later. Whether this is evidence of dementia or malignant narcissism can only be determined by a non-sycophantic doctor, and the Trump clan is making damn sure no such professional gets within poking distance of daddy dearest.
It's an almost-certainty that Sean Spicer is not long for the White House, simply because the stories are too persistent, and have been going on too long. This already appears to be the longest Donald Trump has ever put up with someone who he thinks is making him look bad. We should probably not be overly concerned about a replacement, however; Trump seems to have himself hit upon the notion that perhaps the answer is to not have press briefings at all, rather than suffer the indignation of having his lunatic decisions second-guessed by reporters on a near-daily basis. He's not wrong; if the goal is to shield Donald Trump from criticism by lying to reporters, there's no Fox News talking head you can stuff into that position that won't end up being just as mocked and humiliated as Sean Spicer has been.
The problem is that Donald Trump is a liar. It doesn't matter how many surrogates spout how many versions of his untruths, when Trump pipes up the next day with a lie that makes them all look like morons for repeating the last lie there's no magic wand they can wave to keep reality-denizens from noticing that. The bright side is that the more rapidly Trump churns through staff, the more dedicated conservative hacks get their careers destroyed and reputations ruined for going along with it—so by all means, Donald, let your freak flag fly.