Another ex-White House flunky reveals all to piss off Trump

I've never heard of him, nor has Donald Trump apparently, but a former White House official "close" to the president called Cliff Sims is bursting into print with the now-familiar description of a chaotic administration. Trump is going around saying "Who is this guy?" One of his officials, no doubt also planning a future blockbuster, came up with the wonderful remark, as revealed by Politico, when he advised Trump not to bust a gut over the Sims' memoir: "It's beneath you, you barely remember him. Go run the world." I love it. Go run the world hahahaha! I bet that brought a smile to Trump's face. Meanwhile this bloke Cliff Sims is causing all kinds of anger inside the White House. In fact, for once, his revelations have so pissed off everyone that they are united in condemning him and supporting the president. Sims, some sort of adviser who apparently helped Trump make videos, claims to have been at every meeting that counts and has exposed the disarray around the president. There have been so many books already on the same theme that this latest version deserves to die a death. But no doubt Sims will get his pound (or dollar) of flesh and can retire on the royalties. There is no such thing as loyalty in the Trump camp. All his best mates have either been fired or resigned and the little fish in the Trump pond have been ousted or resigned and rushed straight to the publishers. Bob Woodward has probably written the best inside account of life in the White House so far, having interviewed pretty well everyone and acquired marvellous snippets of gossip about who said what at which moment, like the time Jim Mattis allegedly called Trump a fifth or sixth-grader on foreign policy matters. Embarrassingly for Trump, when Sims resigned from his job at the White House, Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, said everyone was sorry to see him go because he was such a good chap and a loyal and trusted member of the team. Ooops. She even said she trusted Sims would be a loyal supporter of Trump in the future wherever he was working. Ooops ooops. Sims has had his 15 minutes of fame. Well, a bit longer because he has already appeared on a couple of TV shows. But in the end, the canny White House official quoted in Politico probably got it right. Trump should ignore the former videographer and go rule the world!