Ben Myselish

Like I've showed you the receipts before.

That's what's actually happening right now.

And he actually has a very tenuous grip on power there.

But remember when he came to the Oval Office and Donald Trump started spraying him with cologne and sniffing him?

And Caroline Levitt, Trump's chief propagandist, was asked about it to the New York Post in one of their podcasts, Miranda Devine's podcast.

Remember what Levitt said?

Here, play this clip.

Okay, so I want to go back to the theme we started off talking about, because all of this is connected.

Right?

The behavior, the behavior here.

Now, I don't know what context, honestly, it would actually be funny if you were in any entity and the boss started spraying people or you with cologne and perfume and sniffing you.

I don't know any setting where I could imagine, oh, that would actually be a funny thing.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Okay, this is the White House, this is the Oval Office.

And I know with Miranda Devine there and the New York Post and Caroline Levitt's response, and this is one big game, this is one big joke.

And then when corporate news reports on this through its gamified lens, they report on it as though, oh, outrageous.

There's a deeper way we need to be covering this, which is how we talk about it here, which is this is serious life or death, war and peace.

And the behavior, I'll show you what it looked like when Trump was in the Oval Office.

Our audio listeners, I'll play a very short clip of Donald Trump spraying the guy with cologne and sniffing him.

It's just not okay behavior as grownups or as children.