White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reads to the media a piece of fanmail written by a nine-year-old boy to defend the presidency of Donald Trump. ‘My name is Dylan … but everybody calls me Pickle,’ reads Huckabee Sanders from the letter, written on lined notebook paper and dated 1 June. ‘I’m nine years old and you are my favorite president. I like you so much I had a birthday about you. My cake was the shape of your hat.’ The boy also writes: ‘I don’t know why people don’t like you.’ Huckabee Sanders replies: ‘Me neither, Dylan.’