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How soon can we cancel the White House reality show?

With Karoline Leavitt on leave, Trump-era briefings have gone from godawful to completely dysfunctional

Published June 12, 2026 9:00AM (EDT)

Welcome back to “The United States of America: The Reality Show.”

Your host, “President” Donald Trump, conducts each day of his administration as if it were an episode of “The Apprentice.” He’s always looking for someone to fire — or throw under the bus.

He has gone from standing up and shouting at Nuremberg-style rallies two or three times a week to sitting in the Oval Office where, with appropriate props, he opines about the B-2 bomber, the “One Big Beautiful Ballroom” and his “One Big Beautiful Blue” reflecting pool.

He now limits public interactions to small numbers of people who work for him or cheer him on, or who he can easily control. To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises. Those interactions are now limited to once a week instead of daily.

When Leavitt recently went on paid maternity leave — something most American women cannot get — Trump found himself assigning other members of his staff to the chore of  briefing room guest host, much as Johnny Carson used to do when he took nights off from  “The Tonight Show.”

So far Trump has assigned four guest hosts and has made history in doing so. The vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of the Treasury and the administrator of the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services have all appeared to face the press, marking the first time that any person in any of those positions has ever conducted a routine briefing on the president’s........

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