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Sunday, 8 November 2026Vol. 1 · No. 1 · Price: one objection
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Sunday, 8 November 2026

Politics09:41 GMTDisagreement: 3 out of 5, opposed

The briefing room has always been a cage fight, so it might as well have judges

Critics fear that a fight promoter at the podium would turn the White House briefing into a brawl. They have not been watching closely enough. It has been a brawl for decades. What it has lacked is a scorecard.

Everyone else: Appointing a cage-fighting promoter as press secretary turns the briefing room into a circus and signals a combative, unserious White House.