Rove: Trump Looked Like Pharaoh Whipping Slaves With The Media

Karl Rove talks about President Trump's Thursday press conference where he ripped the media on the FOX News Sunday panel:





CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: So, Karl, which better describes Donald Trump's first month in office, chaos or a fine tuned machine?



KARL ROVE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: I would lean more towards the former than the latter. But let’s give him credit, on substance, off to a strong start. A cabinet that’s turning out to be impressive. Moving ahead with some regulatory changes to Obamacare. Republicans on The Hill beginning to wrangle over what legislation to repeal it. Tax reform, again, wrangling, moving it forward.



WALLACE: So why chaos?



ROVE: Well, because the process. We saw that in the immigration executive order. They don’t have a process in place that is collaborative, that -- that will -- that puts cabinet secretaries with disagreements over White House policy in front of the president to make their arguments. They were rushed. They did it by using congressional staffers who didn’t tell their bosses. And as a result, they’re going to have to have a redo. But, you know, that’s the -- we’ve got to give him credit. He’s -- he’s -- he’s moving forward in a lot of ways.



Spectacle, boy, off the charts. I mean early morning tweets, controversies about Meryl Streep's ability to -- to act, and then that blockbuster of a -- of a news conference. I mean he -- that -- the whole purpose of which was to allow him to vent at the media. He looked Pharaoh with a whip in hand, whipping those slaves, getting them to build the pyramids. I mean by -- he was unhappy.



But what I really worry about is the narrative. And Rush touched on this.