Anonymous ID: 56d4d0 May 18, 2021, 7:36 a.m. No.13692481   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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SHADY Biden?

 

In Biden White House, the Celebrity Staff Is a Thing of the Past

 

WASHINGTON — Mike Donilon is one of the most trusted presidential advisers in the Biden White House, but he comes and goes from his West Wing office almost as a spectral presence.

 

Described by those who have worked with him as having the demeanor of a parish priest, he abhors speaking to the news media and is not particularly chatty with his own colleagues. On conference calls, they describe him as a low talker. “Hey, it’s Mike,” he will say, often in a barely audible voice.

 

Donilon’s low-key presence, despite his considerable influence over the leader of the free world, is emblematic of the overall culture of the Biden White House: It is the least personality-driven West Wing in decades.

 

Because of his longevity in politics and underdog personality, combined with the depth of the crises he is facing, President Joe Biden is undoing a long-standing Washington tradition in which staff members enjoy their own refracted fame.

 

Gone are the days when a counselor to the president like Kellyanne Conway was so well-known that she needed her own security detail; when a White House press secretary like Sean Spicer was a recurring character on “Saturday Night Live”; when a policy adviser like Stephen Miller was not only recognized but booed out of a restaurant; and when a glamorous, drama-prone communications director like Hope Hicks was photographed regularly by the paparazzi as she left her home in workout clothes.

 

Proximity to power has a way of attracting interest regardless of whether it is coveted, and Biden’s aides may still end up more well known than they set out to be. But Biden staff members appear to be trying to set themselves apart from the drama of the Trump administration, which the former president ran like a reality show.

 

The phenomenon of the celebrity staff might have been pronounced during those years, but President Donald Trump did not invent it.

 

“Every White House takes on the personality of the president,” said Paul Begala, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, who became a well-known figure himself after appearing in “The War Room,” a documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign.

 

“President Clinton didn’t mind having famous staffers,” Begala said. “He enjoyed it. There’s a blue-collar sensibility with Biden and his team. You carry your pail to work, you punch the clock. You just show up every day and do your job.”

 

Part of that is because of the health and economic crises Biden inherited: The administration’s once-in-a-generation policy pushes that will shape his time in office have further limited attention on the personalities staffing the president.

 

Biden is also surrounded by less of a cult of personality than his two immediate predecessors. Trump and President Barack Obama were charismatic politicians whose speedy rises in national politics were largely based on their personal magnetism. In the Biden White House, senior officials generally keep their heads down and live more like anonymous bureaucrats than the celebrity staff members who have preceded them.

 

Even though Obama also took office during an economic crisis, close advisers like Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Jon Favreau and David Axelrod became Washington-famous, if not well known enough to earn their own recurring comedy sketches. Obama’s reliance on those well-known West Wing aides often rankled Cabinet secretaries, who felt as if they were operating as outposts, far from the immediate sphere of influence.

 

During George W. Bush’s presidency, strategist Karl Rove was crowned with “genius” status and called “Bush’s brain.” Press secretary Tony Snow, already a well-known personality for Fox News, was mobbed for autographs at rallies and headlined his own events.

 

During the Clinton administration, operatives like James Carville and George Stephanopoulos entered government as bona fide movie stars after their turns in “The War Room.” At the time, Stephanopoulos was dating a Hollywood celebrity, actress Jennifer Grey.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-white-house-celebrity-staff-122310113.html

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Naomi Campbell, 50, is a mom: 'There is no greater love'

 

The 50-year-old British supermodel shared her surprising news with the world on Tuesday morning via a photo posted to Instagram where she's cradling the feet of a newborn. "A beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother," she wrote.

 

So honoured to have this gentle soul in my life there are no words to describe the lifelong bond that I now share with you my angel," the caption continues. She also tagged her own mother Valerie Morris-Campbell in the photo.

 

The news comes nearly two years after Campbell revealed in a 2019 interview with WSJ Magazine that she wasn't quite ready for motherhood at 49 years old. "Not yet — I’ll see what the universe brings me," she said at the time.

 

While so many within the industry and throughout Campbell's charitable work already look up to her as a mother figure, it's evident that her new role is in a league of its own.

 

"There is no greater love," she wrote.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/naomi-campbell-is-a-mom-133912218.html