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Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com)
Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, and Glenn Thrush reporting for The New York Times: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source), three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president's senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci's abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New York financier was brought on to the West Wing staff, a move that convulsed an already chaotic White House and led to the departures of Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, and Reince Priebus, the president's first chief of staff. From a report: Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director," the statement read. "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best." Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to brief the press corps, on-camera, at 12:45 pm PST. Scaramucci was given the job on Friday, June 21, and by Thursday, July 27, became something of a national laughingstock when The New Yorker reported his profanity-laced conversation with the magazine's Washington correspondent the night before. He was hired by the president to take charge of a communications operation in disarray, and his hiring coincided with the departure of White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Scaramucci, in his conversation with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, was extremely critical of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and predicted, correctly, that then-chief of staff Reince Priebus would be removed from his position. Following the publication of Lizza's article, it became an open question in Washington whether Scaramucci would keep his job.
Three more Communications Directors and Trump gets a set of steak knives.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
If only Trump listened to Trump who criticized Obama for having 3 Chiefs of Staff in 3 years. The Internet is forever.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Thunderbolts and lightning, very VERY frightening ME!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
In the future, everybody will be a member of Trump's cabinet for 15 minutes.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
That may have been true for previous administrations, when the White House was more of a workplace and less of a reality show.
Reality has nothing to do with it, dearie.
I had just made my rounds of all the lying news sites (which are all of them, depending on who you speak to). I went to /. for some idle chit-chat with AC's and the usual gang of idiots.
To my surprise, a current event! More current than all the news sites that I had just read!
I just want it on record that I consider this disappointing, and another sign that /. has hit bottom. I do not come to this site to read current events! I do not come to this site to read about "News for Nerds", whatever that really means.
I come here to read and write snarky comments with the other poseurs, er, posters that gather here.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
When someone gives me their hand like that, I just assume they want it kissed, like an upper class French lady from 100 years ago. It's sometimes a little awkward when I do.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
How could you have possibly missed "burlesquing a Don"??!?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Well, at least this particular fiasco is over. Now Scaramucci can go home to spend more time with his fam... ... oh. :(
So, apart from that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Don't know if he can do the Fandango, but he sure can do the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.