en route to Beaver, West Virginina" (White House schedule, July 23) "THE PRESIDENT departs Washington, D.C. "President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Opiod Crisis" (White House live stream screen, August 8) They are the ultimate voice.- "Our great country has been divided for decades, but it will come together again.Sometimes protest is needed in order to heel,and heel we will!" (two deleted Trump tweets, August 19) No one should meet a higher bar than the White House. “We were acutely aware of the integrity of our platform. “We felt a burden and responsibility to get it right,” Ms Allen said. Announcements that dealt with domestic policy issues and foreign affairs were vetted by experts at federal agencies and the National Security Council, she said. Releases typically were proofread for accuracy and content by at least four or five people. Liz Allen, who served as White House deputy communications director under former President Barack Obama, said in an interview that the press office under the 44th President sought to be as rigorous as possible. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not respond to a request for comment. In a sign that the sloppiness might be infecting other parts of Washington, tickets to Mr Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in January, distributed by the Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, touted the “State of the Uniom.” Mr Xi is the leader of the People’s Republic of China. After Mr Trump held a high-stakes bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in July, the White House readout referred to the “Republic of China”, which is the official name of Taiwan. It called Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the “president” of Japan. The White House mangled the titles of foreign leaders and their countries. Even having the staff secretary look at it was not foolproof. Snarky reaction on Twitter “was usually the first indication that something got missed. “There was a lot of head-desk,” said the former official, when asked how the White House press office reacted to errors that became public. The main change was that official announcements would have to be cleared by the office of the staff secretary, led by Rob Porter, who resigned last month amid accusations of abuse from two former wives. The mistake reverberated throughout the West Wing and prompted then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to implement new procedures, building in extra layers of sign-offs before news releases were made public, according to a former White House official familiar with the fallout who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private matters. Announcing the visit to the White House of British Prime Minister Theresa May, the official schedule misspelled her name three times as “Teresa May”, which The Independent drolly noted is the stage name of a British pornographic movie actress whose oeuvre includes Whitehouse: The Sex Video and Leather Lust. Inside the West Wing, however, it was another mistake in January 2017, by a junior White House aide, that caused the most consternation – just a week after Mr Trump took office. Last week, in a tweet, the commander in chief lauded his visit to the “Marine Core Air Station Miramar” in San Diego, prompting “veterans everywhere to facepalm,” according to a headline in the Marine Times. And another release announced the departure of an East Wing aide to work for Republican representative Will Hurd of Texas, who was reincarnated as representative Hill in the next sentence. The White House sought “lasting peach” in a news release touting efforts to broker a deal between Israel and Palestinian territories. In Mr Trump’s world, Air Force One became “Air Force Once” on the President’s public schedule. “The sloppiness and the looseness and the chaos and lack of rigour across all areas of Trump world reflects Trump. “It echoes a political quote I tell people a lot from Emerson: The institution is lengthened by the shadow of one man,” said Rick Wilson, a Republican political consultant who has been highly critical of Mr Trump. “Freudian slip?” wondered Rosiland Jordan, a reporter for Al Jazeera.
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