re: #12 Killgore Trout

Office of the Chief of Protocol
Gladys Boluda is going to be looking for a new job soon. I wonder what her job qualifications are. She’s really screwed up. It’s very embarrassing.

That ineptness (to put it midly) is astounding.

From that first link:
‘British officials, meanwhile, admit that the White House and US State Department staff were utterly bemused by complaints that the Prime Minister should have been granted full-blown press conference and a formal dinner, as has been customary. They concede that Obama aides seemed unfamiliar with the expectations that surround a major visit by a British prime minister’

Its not as if there never ever was a visit by a British Prime Minister ever before!