The sun sets at the White House on Dec. 21. You have reached the White House. “I am all alone (poor me) in the White House,” President Trump tweeted at lunchtime Monday, urging Democrats to return to town to negotiate with him. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has quit in protest, to be replaced by an acting secretary who until last year had no military or government experience. In the quiet old house, the president, with no advisers to turn to, calls the White House switchboard operator:Would Laura Ingraham make a good chief of staff?

Source: Washington Post December 25, 2018 23:02 UTC