Sarah Huckabee Sanders, thrown off by Trump-Russia arrests, babbles incoherently about getting drunk
Over the weekend, even after the news surfaced that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was about to start arresting people in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to be holding it together during her press conference. However, after this morning’s arrests of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, along with the reveal that George Papadopoulos has already flipped, Huckabee Sanders was a different story entirely.
In a scene so bizarre that it felt more like a Saturday Night Live sketch than an actual White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders stepped to the podium today and promptly began talking about reporters getting drunk. No, really. It was one of the most incoherently botched attempts at metaphor of all time, which began with “Suppose that every day ten people, for our purposes reporters, go out for beer.”
Three full minutes later, Huckabee Sanders was still bumbling and stumbling her way through her story about drunk reporters, who by now were supposedly fighting over a bar tab. The entire thing turned out to have been a story about tax reform. By the end of her story, the wealthiest drunk reporter was now boycotting the others, and some of the reporters were now going overseas to get drunk. Eventually, she admitted “This is a silly story.” By this time the briefing room was so stunned silent by the debacle they were witnessing, you could hear a pin drop.
So now we know that Sarah Huckabee Sanders has become thoroughly thrown off by this morning’s Trump-Russia arrests. She nervously tried filling the briefing with her own arbitrary noise for as long as possible in the hope of fending off questions about the arrests, but she could hardly even get through her phenomenally stupid analogy. It may be a sign of just how rattled Trump’s White House has become.
