Now this is how the EO/Travel Ban should’ve been introduced to begin with it, but nope when you knee jerk react and just throw things out and expect everyone to just kowtow but you get chaos – PB/TK
Trump’s New Travel Ban Replaces Chaos With Calm as Prep Pays Off – by Justin Sink
The unveiling of the second edition of President Donald Trump’s travel ban came not with a bang but a whisper.
The president made no statement himself, not even a tweet. He signed the order in private. Its enactment was delayed 10 days, ensuring no immediate havoc at airports. The details were carefully outlined for reporters in advance, and the text of the order itself was available to the public less than an hour after Trump signed it.
The rollout was boring by design — the sort of treatment expected for a minor regulation, not one of the new president’s flagship campaign promises.
It was all a tacit acknowledgment of the calamitous introduction of the president’s first attempt to bar travel from a group of predominantly Muslim countries. Monday’s announcement, by comparison, was carefully stage-managed to quell confusion and controversy.
Trump personally consulted with aides about how to introduce the order during a dinner Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago, his resort estate in Palm Beach, Florida. according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, White House Counsel Don McGahn, and top advisers Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller were among his guests.
The president and his team “hashed out the final details of what it would look like and how it would be rolled out,” Spicer said. Following the meal, aides at the White House and government agencies were notified that the order would be issued on Monday.
Communications staffers for both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security met Sunday to assemble a fact sheet, talking points, and frequently asked questions for surrogates and reporters, according to a White House official who requested anonymity to discuss internal preparations. No such materials accompanied Trump’s first order on Jan. 27. Officials decided that Kelly, Sessions, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would debut the order in a midday statement following a press call with officials from each of their departments to outline the order’s details and changes from the original.
Continue to Bloomberg.com article: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-06/trump-s-new-travel-ban-swaps-chaos-for-snooze-as-prep-pays-off
