Kayleigh McEnany - lying cunt bitch or bitch-cunt liar?

After vowing to tell the truth, McEnany immediately falls short

In this West Wing, whether McEnany was honest matters far less than whether the president was pleased with her dishonesty.

Those inclined to set the bar for praise very low may be tempted to give new White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany credit for doing something unexpected on Friday: she held a press briefing. It lasted about a half-hour and included actual Q&A with the White House press corps.

Under normal political conditions, no one would find such a development remarkable since it's traditionally been one of the principal duties of a White House press secretary to hold such briefings. But McEnany's predecessor, Stephanie Grisham, became the first modern presidential press secretary to literally never hold a briefing. Her predecessor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, didn't show up in the briefing room for the last several months of her tenure, either.

So when McEnany appeared behind the podium on Friday, it marked a rather dramatic shift for Team Trump: it was the first briefing any press secretary had held in over a year. With this in mind, it may have seemed like an encouraging change of pace (likely motivated by the president's desire to show things "getting back to normal" during the deadly pandemic).

But looking past the oddity of the circumstances, and focusing instead on what Donald Trump's new, principal spokesperson actually had to say, it was an inauspicious start for the 32-year-old Republican operative.