Grabbing the limelight away from the president is never a good idea, but dribbling profanity all over the New Yorker (as he acknowledged he was attempting to leak rather than go on the record) shows just how lacking in judgment, class and professionalism - even in this White House - he was.

Mr Spicer is a former Republican National Committee spokesman and a long-time Washington staffer.

When he announced his candidacy talking about a wall with Mexico to keep out immigrants ("rapists. drugs. crime"). John McCain and TV news personality Megyn Kelly.

After six months in the job, Mr Priebus exited the building. He suggested the President place frequent op-eds in newspapers, do "modernized fireside chats" with Cabinet members and take questions from citizens on livestreams. During the tirade, he let loose with various permutations of the f-word and references to the male anatomy. Butowsky now claims he was joking about Trump reviewing the drafts, and Spicer told NPR he met Butowsky as a favor. Time and again, he didn't. "POTUS has a funny and irreverent side which was shared with the electorate during the campaign".

On Capitol Hill, it has been maximum disruption, minimal legislation. As a U.S. senator, he supported Trump even after, via videotape, the future president boasted of sexually abusing women. You can listen to the audio for the first time in the podcast. A new path. An actual pivot. Read the full timeline at Slate.

It turned out he was wrong.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said last night: "The President certainly felt Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position".

So if you partake in any of the service industries like restaurants, hotels, and retail, you are paying less for their work and are benefiting from the fact that those workers have no insurance. And the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Joe Dunford, was with him as well in Iraq and is one of his closest friends.

No other post in the White House has experienced as much upheaval as the communications director's job. But this reflects a lack of clear political direction from the top, not a lack of military discipline.

"He's soon going to realise that telling Trump what to do is an impossible task".

Yet harmonizing the president's swarm of surrogates as a choir is only Job One.

CORNISH: And you've reported on Kelly for many years. Can Trump be different? There is tremendous cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang in nuclear and missile technology. And now we have it personified in John Kelly.

Prioritizing policymaking: What would represent a big step up for this White House?

He believes it's an impossible task to run an effective administration while pandering to Mr Trump's ego "which is so clearly a prerequisite".