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On Tuesday, Trump turned to his press secretary in front of reporters and told her she was doing a terrible job. He was joking \u2014 the White House said so, and Karoline Leavitt was clearly in on it \u2014 but the joke still gave away the complaint underneath it. Trump was, once again, talking about the coverage. \u201cI got 93 percent bad publicity<\/a>,\u201d he said, before turning to Leavitt: \u201cMaybe Karoline\u2019s doing a poor job, I don\u2019t know.\u201d Big laughs. Then the room moved on.<\/p>\n The problem is that the week did not move on. It got worse \u2014 and this time the White House did the damage itself.<\/p>\n The next day, the White House held an Easter lunch in the East Room. It was closed to the press. Then the White House briefly posted the full video online before removing it from public view, with no public explanation. That alone would have drawn attention. What was in the footage made it impossible to shrug off.<\/p>\n Paula White-Cain, Trump\u2019s longtime spiritual adviser and a senior adviser in the White House Faith Office<\/a>, told him: \u201cNo one has paid the price like you have paid the price.\u201d She then compared his political and legal troubles to a \u201cfamiliar pattern\u201d shown by Jesus \u2014 betrayal, arrest, false accusation, then vindication. Trump stood behind her while she said it.<\/p>\nThe Easter Footage the White House Posted \u2014 And Then Pulled<\/strong><\/h2>\n