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The president, too, thinks this is all just a game.

By any normal metric, Sean Spicer has had a dismal run as Donald Trump's press secretary. Normally press secretaries try their best to never directly lie to the press, lest they lose credibility with the press. Sean Spicer literally lied about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd on the first day. Normally press secretaries attempt to avoid being the focus of a story, so that they can ensure that the president's agenda is getting attention. Sean Spicer regularly badgers (and again lies to) reporters to such an extent that Melissa McCarthy regularly performs as Spicer on SNL. Normally press secretaries don't compare people to Hitler, and if for some terrible misguided reason they do, they certainly don't have that comparison make the point that Hitler is less bad than someone else. Sean... Well, Sean did this:

So normally a president would consider all the things a press secretary has done wrong, especially if any of those things are Nazi-adjacent, and if the mistakes are big enough, he'd fire that person. Donald Trump? Well, according to a new report from The Washington Post, this is just another time when Donald Trump flies in the face of "normal."

During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Trumps tumultuous White House came up, and one of the attendees wondered whether press secretary Sean Spicer might be the first to go.

The presidents response was swift and unequivocal. Im not firing Sean Spicer, he said, according to someone familiar with the encounter. That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.

Trump even likened Spicers daily news briefings to a daytime soap opera, noting proudly that his press secretary attracted nearly as many viewers.

President Donald Trump doesn't necessarily like or dislike Sean's performance, y'know, in communicating the White House's strategies to the worldhe just thinks Spicer makes for good TV. Now, sure, that's great news for CNN head Jeff Zucker and his many "characters in a drama," but it's less great news for people who want the government to function. And speaking of the government running with all the efficiency and success of Trump Steak/Wine/Ice/Vodka/University, this anecdote from Newt Gingrich shows just how time in the West Wing is being spent:

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Gingrich added that sometimes after an appearance on Fox & Friends, hell have just left the studio and not even reached his car when his cellphone will ring: the president calling to tell him, That was good.

I write a couple blog posts a day for this website, and I don't have time to watch as much Fox & Friends as Donald Trump does. I just imagine that every briefing he has is like the couple on a date at a sports bar, where one person is looking over the other's shoulder, watching the TV when they're supposed to be hearing a story about how Karen was a nightmare at work. Only, in Trump's case, "Karen" is "Kim Jong-un" and "work" is "a potential nuclear war." To review: We have an uninformed boob in the White House spending all his time yelling at cable news and cheering because the male version of the Cathy comic strip that he hired to be his press secretary is getting a lot of eyeballs for whatever Hitler comment he's made today.

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Donald Trump Won't Fire Sean Spicer for the Dumbest, Trumpiest Reason Ever - GQ Magazine