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You’re fired!

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

5 August 2017

9:00 AM

 Washington D.C.

Even a reality show needs good plot twists, and Donald Trump has delivered them like the master he is. First the misdirection: a week of publicly humiliating his attorney-general, Jeff Sessions, to the point where Sessions would surely quit or be fired. Then the sudden swerve — it was the press shop, not the justice department, that was decapitated.

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