The White House Easter Egg Roll is like health care: Nobody knew it could be so complicated!

[riversedge]

Jessica Goldstein
Culture Editor at ThinkProgress. [e-mail]
Apr 14

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The White House Easter Egg Roll is like health care: Nobody knew it could be so complicated!


Even with Sean Spicer, Easter bunny under George W. Bush, on their side.
I know. CREDIT: White House/Pete Souza

The only thing more ridiculous than the White House Easter Egg Roll is the inability to plan a White House Easter Egg Roll. But as with health care, nobody in the Trump administration knew it could be so complicated to plan this festive spring event that has been going off relatively hitch-free since the Hayes administration. For someone who promised to never allow the blasphemous tidings “happy holidays” to emerge from our irreligious lips again, President Trump is remarkably lax about this Christian-lite rite.

First Lady Melania Trump has yet to fully staff the East Wing. She has no director for the Visitors’ Office, and trying to plan an Easter Egg Roll without one is like trying to pass sweeping bans on immigration without a director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — oh, wait, never mind.

As the New York Times reports, everything about this year’s gathering, scheduled for Monday, appears to be about half the size of President Obama’s 2016 event: The number of guests expected to attend (20,000, down from 37,000 in 2016); the number of volunteers staffing it (just 500); even the number of commemorative eggs (40,000, down from 2016’s 85,000).

Maybe there could have been more eggs if Trump hadn’t waited until the last minute to put in the order. The Trumps apparently ignored a tweet from the company Wells Wood Turning & Finishing, which supplies the commemorative wooden eggs used at our nation’s official Easter Egg Roll. “FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter egg roll are near. Please reach out!” The call went unanswered until early March, when the eggs had to be rush ordered.

From the Times:

“It’s the single most high-profile event that takes place at the White House each year, and the White House and the first lady are judged on how well they put it on,” said Melinda Bates, who organized eight years of Easter Egg Rolls as director of the White House Visitors Office under President Bill Clinton. “I’m really concerned for the Trump people, because they have failed to fill some really vital posts, and this thing is all hands on deck.”...............

[KittyWampus]

1. I don't think the Egg Roll is ridiculous. It gives a lot of kids the chance to visit the White House

and it's important for them to know it's OUR collective property and represents OUR collective government.

As for Trumpland not being able to pull this off- they didn't need Melania. They just needed some experienced people around who knew how to organize it. But since there's no money to be made for Trump and he doesn't care about the photo op with kids, it just doesn't matter.

[narnian60]

4. +1

[Brother Buzz]

2. That headline, alone, is DUzy worthy!

[PoliticAverse]

3. That he means he can't figure out how to make money from it. n/t

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[Tanuki]

5. And Pete Souza reminds us how it was done:

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[underpants]

6. He put all his eggs in one basket

Distraction

[Achilleaze]

7. On the bright side

republican draft-dodger-in-chief Comrade Casino will be busy squandering another $3 million of your tax dollars to go play with his putter on a gourmet golf course. So he won't be around to serve as a republican "role model" for all the impressionable young children. Most Americans do not want their children to grow up to follow the example of the "best the republicans have to offer."