Barack Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough on Wednesday apparently brought a box of doughnuts to White House reporters gathered in the West Wing to show them that "we appreciate what you do."
McDonough's gesture came after President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, characterized Washington reporters as "27-year-olds" who "literally know nothing" in an interview with the New York Times Magazine.
Rhodes' comments sparked a backlash among the reporters, as well as with Washington's foreign-policy establishment, which he referred to as "the Blob."
. . . “We appreciate what you do,” McDonough told the press, according toThe Hill.
But at least one reporter was apparently not satisfied with the donuts.
"You should have brought Ben Rhodes," he said.
