Brooks: Trump ‘Like an Anti-Mentor’ – ‘Takes Everybody Around Him and He Makes Them Worse’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on the resignation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer by stating President Trump makes everyone around him worse.

Brooks said, “I can’t think of anybody whose reputation has been enhanced by going into the Trump administration. Rex Tillerson was a serious businessman, well-respected. Jeff Sessions was a serious senator, pretty conservative, quite serious. Sean Spicer was a normal communications guy in Congress — or in Washington. So, he’s like an anti-mentor. He takes everybody around him and he makes them worse. And so that’s what Spicer had to face. And he’ll have to live with that and live with the reputational damage that he’s incurred.”

Brooks added that incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci could “flourish” in the Trump White House, and shouldn’t be underestimated intellectually.

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