It’s h-a-r-d to survive very long in the Trump White House. The President is a hugely judgmental man who also happens to be incredibly mercurial; people he loves today may be people he hates — or at least distrusts — tomorrow. Like, literally.
And yet, Conway remains. Not only that, but she is never mentioned as someone who has fallen out of favor with Trump, someone he has lost faith in, someone who is clinging to their job. She seems to sort of skate under the radar — despite the fact that she is one of the most recognizable and high-profile figures in an administration filled with them.
How, you ask? Good question! And a new excerpt from former Trump aide Cliff Sims‘ book on his time in the White House — „Team of Vipers“ — offers one very likely theory: Conway is the person most like Trump in the White House. Here’s the key bit from Sims:
„Her agenda—which was her survival over all others, including the president—became more and more transparent. Once you figured that out, everything about her seemed so calculated; every statement, even a seemingly innocuous one, seemed poll-tested by a focus group that existed inside her mind. She seemed to be perennially cloaked in an invisible fur coat, casting an all-knowing smile, as if she’d collected 98 Dalmatians with only 3 more to go.
„I’m not sure the president ever fully understood that about Kellyanne. But what he clearly shared with her was a love of media attention. Unlike most human beings, Trump’s greatest fear wasn’t death or failure or loss.
