The problem with the White House press corps is that they take Sarah Sanders seriously.
With varying degrees of earnestness, they try to they try to get her to slip up and tell the truth, or have a meltdown and burst into tears crying “I've had enough, I can’t do this anymore!”
Instead, they should accept that Sanders isn't even a sycophantic shill rather that she is a standup comic wannabe trying out new material at the most heavily covered comedy club in America, probably in the entire world.
The press corps should craft their questions to bring out the best in her. See if she can take a joke. See if she can drop her Aunt Lydia persona.
For example, MSNBC’s Kristen Welker should ask Sanders if it’s true that since taking the job her eyes have gradually grown closer together.
She could quote a story in Daily Kos (this one) saying that when she started her job her eyes were 2.54 centimeters apart.
Kristen Welker should note that a year later leading opticians working for the CheapandTackyEyeGlasses.com measured her eyes as being 2.49 centimeters apart.
Welker should continue saying that as she has been defending Trump’s lies more vigorously the rate of eye movement has increased and three months ago her eyes were 2.25 cm apart, two months ago 2.16 cm, a month ago, 1.97 cm, and over the past week a deeply concerning 1.84 cm.
Welker could explain that the facial constriction and resulting eye movement, according to noted Trump University Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Stanislav Putineski may be due to brain shrinkage, or cerebral atrophy, which can be due to progressive loss of cytoplasmic proteins. In brain tissue, atrophy describes a loss of neurons and the connections between them sometimes caused by unrelenting mendacity, anitrumplingus, and smugly superior smirking.
Welker would continue “Sarah, what do you have to say to experts who have concluded that at this rate her eyes will touch in four or five months and begin to merge together. If Trump stays in office until the end of his term you will have one eye and become a cyclops. I think I speak for my colleagues in saying we are concerned for you. Have you seen a doctor?”