Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst offered a peek behind the curtain when he snapped a closeup of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s briefing binder of lies yesterday.
The photo shows all the labeled tabs McEnany uses to access the White House’s propaganda bullet points when lying speaking to the press, offering a telling glimpse into the Trump administration’s real priorities.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany flips through the topic headings in her binder during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. July 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst #Reuters pic.twitter.com/8QFTgBKa06
— Jonathan Ernst (@j_ernst_DC) July 17, 2020
Some of the topics listed on the tabs include:
- LGBT
- Hate
- BLM
- Goya
- Lies
- Media
- Obama
- Mary
- Statues
- Masks
- Election
- Golf
- Wins
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She should just label the entire file “LIES.”
With a black sharpie.— Heather 🌊 🎩 (@AMpplH8r) July 17, 2020
These are the tabs from @PressSec’s briefing book today. This is a physical manifestation of utter chaos and an inability to lead/focus.
That our government is spending time right now drafting up clever responses to GOYA, OBAMA, & GOLF is ABSURD. pic.twitter.com/dFxblDaGUp
— Heath Mayo (@HeathMayo) July 16, 2020
No q?
Hmmm
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 17, 2020
All those tabs yet this coulda covered every one of them… pic.twitter.com/XYCIYTdP3S
— chunkyb (@chunkybmcoc) July 16, 2020
The next question should be “can you answer any question without looking for an answer in your prepackaged binder?”
— RDA (@RDAFreeThinker) July 17, 2020
This is sooo absurd. There’s even a tab for “absurd” in WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany binder.
🤣🤣🤣
I’d say you can file everything under that tab. https://t.co/NITTTtVHd8— Angela in KY (@AngelaInKy502) July 17, 2020
This is the book you need to keep all the lies straight.
— J. Quinten 🎧🎙 (@TheRealJQuinten) July 17, 2020
Imagine everyday having to put a binder together to defend @realDonaldTrump‘s lies. This edition has tab attacks against @MaryLTrump & @LarryHogan Ms Trump wrote the tell-all book. Gov Hogan is married to a South Korean, a genre of humans that Trump hates. LGBT, too. @PressSec pic.twitter.com/iuEsNMuTqf
— Paul Chambers🌊📢🏥🤡 (@feedingtubepaul) July 17, 2020
tweeted before, I’ll tweet it again- she’s Binder Tab Barbie. all questions answered with prefab tabs and qanon generated answers
— Teutonic⚘Titwillow (@lilyvnshtp) July 16, 2020
When you need a binder like that and can’t answer any questions without reading directly from prepared statements, you might be working for a scandalous, criminal, authoritarian government or ill equipped to be a @PressSec
— MTW (@tech_mtw) July 17, 2020
Mediaite reports:
During her tenure, McEnany has developed a reputation for flipping open her briefing book after a particularly confrontational question and reading verbatim from pre-written responses, which often included canned attacks on the press or praise from allies.
Cue McEnany’s canned response feigning outrage about “invasion of privacy” in 3… 2… 1…
Related: Lori Lightfoot is all of us when she tells Kayleigh McEnany, “Hey Karen. Watch your mouth.”
WSnyder
Ya Know, I DID mention in a post about 2-3 weeks ago that the WH has to keep a Binder with their LIES and ‘Don’t Reuse Until….” dates because they just re-use the same playbooks over and over and over again.
So now there’s PROOF [see tab ‘Lies’].
Under Trump the WH Press Sec. can’t ever ‘wing it’ or take questions ‘on-the-fly’. That place is SO stuck in Lies they have to keep tabs on all the BS being flung about because they keep getting their wires and messaging crossed and screwed up. So you know she had this put together because you just can’t REMEMBER a multitude of LIES.
TRUTH is easy to remember. TRUTH is easy to fall back on. TRUTH is easy to talk about, no Binders necessary.
All Lies incur a Debt to the Truth and sooner or later that Debt is Paid [HBO – Chernobyl]. This book is the accounting for that Debt. November is when it will be called Due. We can expect it to be settled in 2021/22.
GayEGO
Great response!
ThinkPlease
With all due respect (none, really, but…) everybody has one of those. Nobody can remember everything about every issue. My file folders are filled with information that I cannot stuff into my head because it’s already full of minutiae.
The difference is that an honest White House’s folders would be filled with honest information. This one is not, it’s filled with lies and smoke clouds.
ShiningSex
but how many has a TAB on GOLF???? The fact that there’s an OBAMA one too shows how disgusting they are.
ThinkPlease
Are people so reflexively anti-anything this White House that they’ll literally bother to criticize the set of folder names that are as jejune as “GOLF” and “OBAMA”? Because I have to say, it’s really coming across as petty.
Sure, why shouldn’t they have those if these issues have come up during conferences? Who’s going to remember detailed information of what happened during another administration or facts of exact numbers of golfing excursions if asked?
And no, I don’t expect that the actual truth is in any of said folders. It’s all spin or an outright lie. That’s actually not the point here.
The point is not to make huge mountains over tiny molehills that will be logically expected to occur in any administration and can, with reasonable research, probably be shown to have occurred.
Apolodorus
@thinkplease
You are defending a racist, xenophobic, incompetent administration that has wreaked havoc on the country.
That is all.
ThinkPlease
@Apolodorus: No, I’m not. I’m assuming what’s in the folders are lies. I’m simply stating that every administration has folders.
I’m not the one flipping out over something every administration has and calling it unnatural and scary. But I’m getting very, very tired of over-sensitive, whining, blaming, and unintelligent people. Regrettably, that tends to encompass most of the people around here.
Mack
Can we be honest here, nothing honest comes from the Trump’s administration. If you think there is, then you’ve watched too much Hannity or Limbaugh.
marshal phillips
“If you tell the truth, then you don’t have to have a good memory.” Judge Judy
douglen221
A tab “Obama”? Are these fools ever going to get over the fact that a highly educated, extremely eloquent, happily married Black man was elected, legally, to be the President of the USA TWICE? These idiots just don’t get it. This woman looks like a blow up doll, and must have to do whatever Trump wants.when his daughter/mistress can’t and or won’t!
TonyPSP
Binders are standard for Trump and his administration. Ever notice how he reads from a binder himself. It’s one thing for a press secretary to read from a binder in order to keep the lies consistent, but when the president has to read from a binder to make sure what he says follows a script, is another story. They’re his own policies, he should know what his own policy’s are. Maybe not. Ken and Barbie can only do one thing at a time.
ShiningSex
Trump has a small c*ock. He’s in love with his own daughter. Doesn’t have sex with his own wife. Has to pay for sex. Can never accept responsibility for wrong responses, fake statistics he gives, and has a “special” kid that he doesn’t like to flaunt. Then again, all of his children are vermin too.
Anyone who supports such a racist POS needs their head checked.
RFD
I would not say that about Baron or Tiffany Trump. I think Baron will grow up hating his father.
hayesj
The whole family is so grotesque they should hung from an oak tree on the White House lawn. Except Mary. She’s the only with the balls to tell the truth.
fur_hunter
We ALL knew from the get-go that McEnany is nothing but a lying, Piece of S HIT, B itch, Wh ore C UNT who wouldn’t know the truth even if it came up and f ucked her snatch.
succubus
vile much?
hayesj
Does anybody really listen to this anorexic blow job artist? She’s a loser just like anyone else associated with this failed President.
SteveM
What can you expect from McEnany? She looks and talks like the moron she is.
jennifer.white530
Donald Trump before the media’s grasp:
1976 Humanitarian Award by the National Jewish Health;
1983 Tree of Life Award by the Jewish National Fund;
1986 Ellis Island Award given to Trump, Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali;
1990 video of the Rev. Jesse Jackson lauding Trump as a friend to minorities and underserved communities. Jackson expressed appreciation for Trump’s support of the Rainbow Push Coalition’s initiative called the Wall Street Project, which aimed to help minority-owned businesses;
1995 President’s Medal by the Freedom Foundation (Washington) for his support of youth programs;
2007 Muhammad Ali Entrepreneur Award;
2008 Unicorn Children’s Foundation Shining Star Award;
2011 Presidential Hero Award by the Lois Pope Life Foundation;
2015 The Algemeiner Liberty Award for contributions to Israel-United States relations.
hayesj
It just goes to showy that the promise of money will buy anything, I’m sure he made many promises to these organizations And never followed through. He’s a loser.
Apolodorus
You are right. There is something definitely wrong with the vetting processes of all of those things.
Kangol2
Also, re: Don the Racist Con, some highlights (h/t @Vox):
1973: Busted by Nixon’s (!) US Dept. of Justice for discriminating against Black renters & homeowners, & had to sign a federal consent decree to stop.
1980s: Accused of racism by employees at his NJ casinos, including clearing all Black employees off the floor so that he and Ivana wouldn’t have to see them.
1888: Trashed Japan, in racist manner (sound familiar), at a commencement speech at Lehigh.
1989: Called for the death penalty, even taking out newspapers, against 5 innocent Black & Latinx teens accused of brutally attacking & raping a young White woman. They were exonerated but he refuses to apologize.
1991: Former Trump high level employee John O’Donnell wrote that Don the Con had spewed racist invective against Black and Jewish people working for him; in a 1997 interview, Don the Con admitted he’d probably said it.
1992: Paid a $200K fine after admitting to transferring Black employees off tables to placate a racist gambling client.
1993: Made slurs against Indigenous Americans in Congressional testimony.
2000: Ran ads slurring Indigenous Americans, claiming their criminality, without evidence, in order to damage them.
2000s: Allegedly made racist remarks, including the n-word, on the set of The Apprentice.
2005: Wanted to run an overtly racist edition of The Apprentice.
2010: Made hate-filled remarks about Muslims in relation to the Ground Zero mosque (remember that?); has since lied & claimed he saw Muslims in NJ cheering the 9/11 attack on TV (never happened!)
2011: Began pushing the racist “birtherist” conspiracy against Obama, and allegedly is still pushing it.
+ Nonstop racism since he launched his candidacy in 2015 with racist statements about Mexicans and Mexican Americans!
Kevan1
Yeah, she’s just like Kellyanne Conway. She can’t get up off her knees when she’s around Trump.
Karlis
Am I the only one who noticed that the tab which references the former special prosecutor misspells his surname?
nmharleyrider
and she said during her first week that she would never tell a lie. should have said would never tell the truth
succubus
she looks like howdy duty…
barryaksarben
THINK PLEASE you need to think. NO ONE ASKS TRUMP ABOUT OBAMA ANYMORE> HE IS THE ONE WHO CANT STOP MENTIONING HIM. His jealousy is off the charts. And about golf. HE SAID eh wouldnt golf as much but that is all he does. YOU need to rethink your insane support of this insane man
ThinkPlease
When did I say I…oh, right, you made that up in your own mind because you can’t understand what a file folder is and why it may not have been cleaned out in an administration that literally cannot handle a pandemic with 75,000 infections per day.
As noted, I’m very tired of the stupid people on the planet. This includes you. I don’t support him. Biden 2020 and all that. Get a life and get at least a tiny shard of a brain and listen for half a second. You’re being flat out petty by harping on this tiny, unimportant detail. Focus on things like…oh, I don’t know…a thousand people dying a day in a pandemic? That 75,000 infections? Facism?
No, for you it’s folders. You big hero. This isn’t “multitasking,” it’s not “considering other things,” it’s flat out useless and simply makes your argument look slightly more dumb. But that, frankly, seems to suit the shallowness I’m seeing around here.
I think I’ll stay a bit and raise the intelligence level. It sure needs to be done.
barryaksarben
Jennifer you forgot to mention at the same time he was getting some of these allocades he was stealing from a fake charity he set up for kids wiht cancer. He also was sued successfully by the federal government for illegal discriminatory rental practices with his father. Meaningless awards dont hide the fact he has always been a scumbag wiht or without the media