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Trump's Management 101 — Mikey Facts of Life on the fall of O'Re=lly — Deconstructing Tapper Face

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By Mike Allen = ·Apr 20, 2017

1 big thing: Trump's on-edge management style

Lazaro Gamio / Axios

Last Tuesday night, just after 8 p.m., Steve Bannon's c=llphone started lighting up. Colleagues and friends were sending him the l=nk to the column by the New York Post's Michael Goodwin quoting President =rump as saying "I like Steve, but... ." They wanted to know if =he story was as bad as it looked.

As part of our "Trump 101= series on this president's style and decision making, Axios' Jonathan Swan writes that the stun=ing episode illuminates Trump's improvisational management style:

He's always been more<=strong> of a creative deal-maker and salesman than a manager. In his busin=ss career, he oversaw a very lean executive team, and he preferred his dea=s to be mano-a-mano. He made phone calls from early morning to late into t=e night. He stayed loose, always open to next idea.

The bigger the concept, the more potential fo= glamor, the better. And he always, always — as Bannon, Reince and=the rest now keenly know — kept his associates on edge.

In a one-paragraph statement for this story,
Click =ere to read the 7 elements of Trump's management style.

2. Fallen star

The brutal but foreseeable banishment of Bill O'Reilly =ushes aside all other global events and gets a two-column lead splash from=the N.Y. Times, "Fox News Ousts O'Reilly, A Host Ce=tral to Its Rise."

It's partly a victory lap by the paper that lit the fuse with rat-tat revelations of cascading harassment =llegations, triggering an advertiser exodus. But it's also a reflection of=the change as a signal moment in the converging worlds of=business, media, culture and politics. Your quick read on the afte=math:

See our amazing timeline, by Stef Kight =nd Laz Gamio.

Sentence of the day, from an emaile= to CNN's Brian Stelter: "Have you ever stopped to cons=der how the world would have been different if Roger Ailes had just given =retchen Carlson the new contract she wanted? All of this over a deal for h=s 2pm anchor."

Crucial context: "21st Century Fox is much bigger than O'R=illy, Fox News and its aging, conservative audience. It's home to movie an= TV studios; a slew of sports and other cable channels; and the Fox broadc=st network ... It's also home to ambitions that the O'Reilly crisis may ha=e hindered."

Vanity Fair=s Sarah Ellison: "The most unsettling feeling among some at F=x News ... is that Wednesday's events are only the beginning. 'There's mor= to come,' one Fox News insider told me, suggesting that there are more wo=en with stories of harassment who have not come forward publicly. ... Othe=s are equally concerned about the attention that is being drawn to 21st Ce=tury Fox's handling of the allegations."

The new =ineup: O'Reilly's show, with Dana Perino filling in, was rena=ed "The Factor" last night. Tucker Carlson replaces O'Reilly at 8 p.m. sta=ting Monday. "The Five" moves to Carlson's 9 o'clock slot. Martha MacCallu= stays at 7 p.m. with the renamed "The Story." Eric Bolling gets a 5 p.m. =how starting May 1.

Mikey Facts of Life: Life is =ore fair than unfair. If you do the right things for the right reasons, th= arc of life bends toward goodness — with good results. But if you=do the wrong thing for the wrong reason, the arc of life bends toward just=ce — almost always with bad results. Who cares if you make million=, and earn fame and power, if you end in public or private humiliation?

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3. Facebook's focus on futuristic tech

Franklin Miranda-sibrian uses an Oculus headset at Facebook's annual F8 =eveloper conference in San Jose / AP's Noah Berger

Facebook's new interests in technology for reading brai= waves — and mixed reality that barely exist today — shows=that it wants to compete with Google when it comes to tech moonshots, Axios' Kia Kokalitcheva writes.

=strong>The big news from the closing day of this year's Facebook =evelopers' conference:

Facebook wants you to wear AR g=asses: Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash described a future i= which we all wear glasses that mix augmented and virtual reality.=But we're still at least five years away from augmented reality's="MacIntosh" moment — when it becomes a mainstream technology.
=li>Facebook wants you to type with your mind: Facebook's =ecretive Building 8 unit, led by former DARPA director and Google executiv= Regina Dugan, unveiled two of its projects: One aims to let people type u=ing their brain waves, and the other is working on letting them hear and d=tect language through their skin.

Other new tech:=Facebook execs also discussed new improvements and projects in the areas o= 360-video cameras, internet connectivity, and artificial intelligence.

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4. Day 91: Operation Normal persists

The "America First" president who vowed to extricate th= U.S. from onerous overseas commitments is warming to global agreements, <= href="http://link.axios.com/click/9428780.30282/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29=Lzk0MWNjN2RhYjZlYzQwMjg4NDk3NzE2NGU4ODlmMjBjL09uY2UtY3JpdGljYWwtb2YtZ2xvYm=sLWRlYWxzLC1UcnVtcC1zbG93LXRvLXB1bGwtb3V0LW9mLWFueT91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZ=R0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xldHRlcl9heGlvc2Ft/587=993924c17c54d77a8b8cB1e893fb8" target="_blank">AP's Matt Lee and Josh Le=erman write:

Get smart fast: "From NAFTA=to the Iran nuclear agreement to the Paris climate accord, ... Trump's cam=aign rhetoric is colliding with the reality of governing. Despite repeated=pledges to rip up, renegotiate or otherwise alter them, the U.S. has yet t= withdraw from any of these economic, environmental or national security d=als, as Trump's past criticism turns to tacit embrace of several key eleme=ts of U.S. foreign policy."

The takeaway: "[W]ith=one exception — an Asia-Pacific trade deal ... — Trump's a=ministration quietly has laid the groundwork to honor the international ar=hitecture of deals it has inherited."

P.S. WashPost to= of column 1, "U.S. sows confusion on foreign affairs," by David Nakamura =nd Karen DeYoung: "[T]he normally meticulous care that goes into formulati=g and coordinating U.S. government policy positions or even simple stateme=ts is often absent. Institutional memory is lacking, ... former officials =aid, and mistakes and contradictions easily slip through the cracks."

5. Trump takes on steel dumping

President Trump plans to issue a memo today calling for=the Commerce Department to investigate whether steel imports hinder nation=l security. Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs broke the story on Twitter. Jonathan Swan confi=med it and reads between the lines:

W=y it matters: By initiating investigations under the umbrella of =national security," Trump is creating a pretext for using extraordinary me=sures to crack down on steel dumping. This could complicate the U.=.-China relationship at a time when Trump is explicitly linking t=ade negotiations to China's behavior with North Korea, as China is the top=culprit for dumping cheap steel into the American market.

=omething else you should know: This memo is much, much, m=lder than some of the ideas that were initially kicked around ins=de the West Wing.

Shifting power: An early conce=t pushed by administration nationalists was to impose immediate supplement=l 25% tariffs on a wide range of product categories they believed were bei=g unfairly dumped into the United States such as industrial chemicals, hou=ehold appliances, paper and tires.

6. Navigating the new Washington

On Feb. 24, Trump gives a pen he used to sign an executive order on reg =eform to "my frie=d" Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, as other business leaders applaud =n the Oval / AP's Pablo Martinez Monsivais

"AP Exclusive: Pestic=de maker tries to kill risk study," by AP's Michael Biesecker= "Dow Chemical is pushing the Trump administration to scrap the findings o= federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as har=ful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species."

=li>What happened: "Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO al=o heads a White House manufacturing working group, and two other makers of=organophosphates ... asked [three Cabinet agencies] 'to set aside' the res=lts of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed."=/li>
Why it matters: "Dow Chemical chairman and CEO An=rew Liveris is a close adviser to ... Trump. The company wrote a $1 millio= check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities."

The context: "The industry's request comes after EPA =dministrator Scott Pruitt announced last month he was reversing an Obama-e=a effort to bar the use of Dow's chlorpyrifos pesticide on food."

=span>The response: An EPA spokesman said Pruitt wo='t "prejudge" any potential rule-making decisions as "we are trying to restore regulatory sanity to EPA's work."

P.S. Wall Street Journal 2-column lead, "Exxon Seeks Waiver for Russia Deal," by Jay Solomon and Brad Olson: "Exxon Mobil Corp. has applied to the T=easury Department for a waiver from U.S. sanctions on Russia in a bid to r=sume its joint venture with state oil giant PAO Rosneft."

7. Security tightens around White House

The upper arc marks the old fence line; the lower arc marks the new boun=ary for the public / WTOP

After a series of embarrassing jumper incidents, the Se=ret Service announced that the sidewalk along the White House south fence =losed permanently at 11 last night, WTOP and oth=r outlets reported:

What changed: "Since 2015= the sidewalk and park land between the south fence and E Street Northwest= between West Executive Avenue and East Executive Avenue, has been closed =etween 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. daily." Now it's permanent.

The=new look: Secret Service Communications Director Cathy Milhoan to=d WTOP that the plan was to create "space between the fence and people." W=en people stood right up to the fence, "it limited our ability to identify=and respond to potential hazards."

The new restriction "won't require building any new physical barriers ... The existing b=rriers simply won't be opened in the daytime hours."

The c=ntext: "Milhoan said the move wasn't in response to any specific =ncident ... Last month, a man jumped the White House fence and spent 17 mi=utes on the grounds while ... Trump was inside."

The spin:=/strong> "Milhoan said that people who wanted to see or photograph the ico=ic view of the White House from the south would still be able to get it =E2�� just about 25 yards back, across E Street by the Ellipse.=

What's next: "A higher fence around the=White House was approved earlier this year ... [T]he project will go out t= bid later this year, and construction is slated to begin next year."
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8. More millennials at home

The Census Bureau yesterday released a study, "The Changing Economics and Demographics of Young Adulthood From 1975=2016," concluding that today's 18-to-34-year-o=ds "look different from prior generations in almost every regard: how much=education they have, their work experiences, when they start a family":
"Young people are delaying marriage, but most sti=l eventually tie the knot. In the 1970s, 8 in 10 people married by the tim= they turned 30. Today, not until the age of 45 have 8 in 10 people marrie=."

"More young men are falling to the bottom of t=e income ladder. In 1975, 25% of young men ages 25 to 34 had incomes of le=s than $30,000 per year. By 2016, that share rose to 41% ... (incomes for =oth years are in 2015 dollars)."

"Between 1975 and 2016, the share of young women who were homemakers fell from 43 percent t= 14 percent of all women ages 25 to 34."

More than one-thi=d of adults live at home: 34% in 2015 vs. 26% in 2005.

9. Rising star

Chris Buck / GQ

The May issue of GQ has a f=ur-page spread on CNN's Jake Tapper as "The Hardest-Working Brow in the Business," by Taffy Brodesser-Akn=r:

[T]=e Jake Tapper WTF Face [is] that unique look through which he tra=smits his seeming disbelief and outrage ... There is the JTWTFF that is a =ere frown ... a hood over his downward-turning, disappointed eyes. ... My =avorite Jake Tapper WTF Face is the one where his eyebrows arch but also c=rrugate into small bowl-shaped caterpillars ...

Tapper allows an incredulousness, and m=ybe even a smidge of disgust, to sneak on through. In those moments, when =e augments the standard newsman persona to include his own come-off-it rea=ness, he has a way of embodying all of us.

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10. 1 old-school thing: Roger Stone is back

Roger Stone in his Manhattan apartment / Photo by Mike Allen

The colorful, controversial Roger Stone — autho= of "The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump=Orchestrated a Revolution" — is the WashPost Style section co=er story, "A bedrock of dark politics," by Manuel Roig-=ranzia in Oakland Park, Fla.:

Stone, a prolific author who hosts a radio program and runs a w=bsite, StoneColdTruth.com, ne=er really went away. He's been talking nonstop for decades, pointing an ac=using finger at Lyndon Johnson for alleged complicity in the Kennedy assas=ination, rooting around in Bill Clinton's extramarital misdeeds, depicting=the Bushes as a "crime family." It's just that now there are more =eople listening.

His studio — a man-cave-style haunt slathered floor to=ceiling with Nixon memorabilia and conspiracy books — has been sto=ked with professional lighting and a broadcast-quality audio line by Stone=s 19-year-old grandson, Nick. ...

Stone met his Cuban American wife, Nydia, during one =f Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns, where she was working as a photo=rapher. In a Polaroid picture taped to her computer monitor, the future ma=ried couple are slender and stylish with deep 1980s tans.

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