The power game of Trump's White House

Mark Leibovich takes stock of how Washington has — and hasn’t — changed in the time of Trump

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, was running late and “tied up in the Oval”, an assistant said.

It was a Thursday afternoon in June, and I had not seen Spicer since the election in November that would supposedly transform the accustomed reality of Washington and which had unquestionably upended his.