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In her memoir, the former White House press secretary recounts that it was through Michelle Wolf that she was asked to leave a restaurant, a wink from Kim Jong-un and more.
By Elisabeth Egan
“In the sour war between the president and the media, I felt like I was on the front line in no man’s land,” writes Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her memoir, “Speaking for Myself,” which is published Tuesday.”At my first briefings in my new position, I noticed that I was the first mother to hold the position of White House press officer and I said to my daughter Scarlett, “Don’t pay attention to criticism.Recognize your potential, because in America, you can always.”
“Speaking for myself” explains how I came here to pay attention to his own recommendation when “nothing was forbidden for the angriest who hate Trump: my character, my weight and my appearance, even my ability to be a mother.”Sanders requires a granular technique – sharing the logistics of a joke he made with other seniors at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, or describing chandeliers in the Arkansas governor’s mansion, in the oval office back dining room, and at the Riyadh Ritz.he writes about a nod to Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, and his family’s visits to the White House, where the president once dropped “an explosive bomb” in front of his daughter.
Sanders briefly mentions several issues that concerned the United States during its time in the Trump administration: health care, travel bans, race relations, mass shootings, and separation from the circle of relatives, some appear only in the text of a satirical poem, written and read in its entirety.Greg Clugston of Standard Radio at a Christmas lunch hosted by White House correspondents in 2017.For example: “In Charlottesville, we’ve noticed divisions that have been simmering for a long time, / Trump has lit the chimney by quoting ‘other good people on either side.’
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Sanders describes how he felt when he was mocked through the Michelle Wolf comic at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner and returned the following summer, when he was asked to leave the position of eating Red Hen in Alexandria, Virginia (in the six pages he devotes to this episode, Sanders never provides a context for the evictionArray that took a position amid a national judgment on ethics of separating young people from parents at the border).
Sanders also writes about examples of repudiation closer to home.Her husband kicked out of his fantasy football league, “not because he worked for President Trump, but because I did.”One morning, while Sanders was accompanying her three-year-old son to class, another mom told him he was a terrible human being and spat on the windshield of his car.
“The hardest component of my homework is knowing that my kids might no longer be sure,” she writes.She stopped sending her children to the birthday components and became the first user in her role to get secret service protection.
Sanders talks about the difficult times after the birth of her daughter and eldest son: “Women can be our worst enemies,” she writes.”Being a new mother is difficult and spending time breastfeeding, remote and lonely, with ‘perfect’ mothers.”image after symbol can drive even the most productive mother crazy.
On his first full day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Sanders pulled out his GMC Yukon across the front onto 17th Street, crossed several checkpoints and was surprised to find a parking lot in the front of the west wing.She writes: “I didn’t need to do too much and took the position closer to the door, so naturally I took the nearest position, but as I unpacked the boxes and settled in my office, I got a call from the Secret Service informing me to move my car because the vice president was on his way to the White House and I was in his space.A good start to my first full day’s work!»
When his father, Mike Huckabee, ran for president in 2008, Sanders worked on his campaign.She writes: “At a pickup in Houston, I went to a well-known bakery and ordered 30 cakes for our staff and volunteers.However, I had to quickly return to the country bus, otherwise I lost my way to the airport to fly with my dad to the next rally, I was driving too fast and I was arrested.car and I said, “Officer, forgive me. This is a rental car.I don’t have a driver’s license or insurance, but I have thirty cakes that I have to deliver to Gov. Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris right now.The story was so absurd that the officer let me through without a price ticket and gave accompanied me back to the rally site in exchange for a picture with my father and Chuck.
During his final months at the White House, Sanders stopped conducting press conferences.She writes: “A lot of journalists didn’t like to admit it, yet we had to answer their questions during my time at the White House.”And: “There are a lot of news seekers in the world who had my mobile phone or my email or who can just knock on my workplace door in the West Wing, so the concept that we weren’t available to the press is absurd.”
Sanders lobbied for a separation between data and opinion in his book: “You can’t tell what a journalist’s point of view is.His report gives the facts, not his opinion, and lets you decide.”
Sanders acknowledges that the president “is not perfect” and “not easy,” but, he writes, “a momentary mandate for President Trump would be better for all Americans than the Democratic alternative.”
Trump called Sanders at night and on weekends and expressed disapproval when she finished press conferences with a “Thank you guys.”(He said, “I don’t like the word “boy.” This could even be offensive to some women..”)
But either of us is still today.At the end of “Speaking for Myself,” after insinuating that she would like to be governor of Arkansas, Sanders recalls the president’s two separate promises to approve it if he ran.
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