No ‘turmoil’ at the White House

Al Jazeera reports: The media had a field day with Katie Zacharia’s short tenure, but claims of chaos in the Trump administration are exaggerated. In the months leading up to the disastrous 2006 election, President George W Bush fired his press secretary, Scott McClellan, and withdrew the Supreme Court nomination of his close confidante, Harriet Miers. He waited until after the midterms, in which the Republicans lost control of the United States Congress, to fire Donald Rumsfeld as his secretary of defence, who had led the increasingly unpopular war against Iraq.

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