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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.
He made a good decision here.
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Man this crew is setting some records! I wonder how many more they'll set before the summers out. All this entertainment and still haven't passed anything of mention.
Trump will finally have a staff in place that can run the White House.
Yeah, anything else gets delayed by days, to the point we're getting year-old stories. But Trump fired someone "News for nerds, stuff that matters"?
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Scaramucci strikes me as awfully similar in many ways to Trump himself - a foul mouthed, self centered narcissist. I guess Trump does not like to have others like himself around. What surprises me is that he did not realize what Scaramucci was like before appointing him. I guess, as usual, Trump failed to listen to those around him.
Three more Communications Directors and Trump gets a set of steak knives.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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Given the wealth that most of the cabinet and staff have in the current white house it confuses me why many of them would want to risk image issues or care to face the daily workload and headaches that these positions entail. Though many are earning a comfortable salary, the money pulled in is likely secondary to the access to impact decisions as well as access to information. Given the chaos and drama however we must be left to think carefully about what kind of corruption might be brewing behind this relatively opaque administration. Like a poorly tuned monitoring system there is so much noise in US politics right now it is difficult to pick out where the real harm to the world might be.
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Slashdot has been posting political stories ever since Al Gore invented the Intertubes.
Most business organizations I've witnessed tend to thrive when there's a level of stability. For example, people know they should talk to Person X in charge of Process Y directly to get the real deal on things. It's good to get people out who are pretty toxic, but doesn't government work the same way? Don't companies and wealthy people use the back-channel methods to actually get work done?
We'll see what happens...I'm hoping that there's just a ton of drama, things basically get parked for 4 years, and other countries don't see it as an opportunity to get ahead while everyone's distracted.
If I were to write a comedy skit about this presidency, no one would buy it because it would be too far fetched.
But it would be funny. This isn't.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Agreed, but wow. As others have pointed out, Mr. Trump does not appear to be a good judge of character. Or perhaps his team of advisers are not. Either way, this administration seems unable to keep its (White) house in order. Is this how they conduct all of their affairs? This should be simple as this is a process where they control all/most of the factors. What happens when this administration is dealing with another country, or sensitive situation, where they do not control many/most of the factors?
At every turn, all I see is people looking to get their name tied to national politics, and a leader looking to hand out personal favors, seemingly without the understanding that real consequences and real harm can be done. And don't get me wrong, I think most people who go into politics on both sides of the aisle do it because they are power-hungry assholes. But most of them seem to realize what's at stake.
This lot seems to think of all of this as a popularity contest and resume-builder, like they've been elected to student council.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
1. The whole planet is sick of your so-called "left vs right" debates, you're all right-wing as far as the rest of us are concerned.
2. This is Slashdot, left vs right debates should not belong here.
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Every other story here is days or weeks old. Trump staples some papers and immediately gets posted.
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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"?
Personally I think Scaramucci's firing came down to his refusal to do the Fandango.
I'll agree. From OP "The majority of people don't want to be subjected to more leftist nonsense about affirmative action, about transsexuals, about -isms and -phobias, and about so-called "social justice" in general. They don't want to be subjected to virtue signalling. They don't want to read comment after comment full of pathetic insults like "Drumpf" and "orange skin" and "small hands" and "bad hair"."
I'll include I didn't want all the similar crap from rightists the previous eight years. But, as has been documented for thousands of years, people "reap what they sow".
I'm sick of it all. There's plenty of blame to go around. We need some adults in government. We need some adults here.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You may not like Trump (I don't) but laughing at his misfortune, is also laughing at your own, even if you are not a US citizen.
If the US goes down in chaos, so will the rest of the world. Laughing now at his misfortune, is only leading to your own. Sure you want your side to win, and the people who voted for the other side to loose, and loose so bad that they knew that they are wrong... But that doesn't happen, at least not without complete crippling defeat.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It would be nice to stop hearing 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' used as insults. It's not an insult to disagree.
So what is it that you want? People who feel they have been treated unfairly to keep their mouths shut? Gays back in the closet, lest your tender sensibilities be offended?
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Sometimes laughing is the only thing you can do when confronted with the absurdity that's impacting your life. The laughing is also a big fat "we told you so". Sadly, this creates a defense mechanism in Trump voters who now believe they need to defend / rationalize their choice.
The man still has a 38% approval rating. 4 out of 10 Americans think he's doing a good job. If that isn't hilarious in its absurdity, then I don't know what is.
So what you're saying is that President Trump appointed a Director of Communications who is mentally unstable.
That would explain the call to the New Yorker journalist. The Mooch is out of his mind. Frankly it sounded more like coked out of his mind, but let's just go with him being mentally unstable.
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Look on the bright side...the 'Fat Bottomed Girl' isn't in the white house.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Really? Trump failing is going to be HUGE in term of benefits, same as he's already destroyed the Tea Party by accident. He's got both sides of both houses ignoring him and talking about working together. He is demanding they try again to pass a health reform bill, and the senate just said no, they're moving on.
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"The fact that somebody like Trump could even get elected is a death-sentence. The problem isn't the guy in the captain's chair. The problem is all the guys who wanted him in the captain's chair"
This is point I've been making since that orange-tinted fucknut with the Pomeranian on his head descended down the golden escalator. Trump is entitled to be a raging lunatic asshole; that's his right in a free country.
The problem is that tens of millions of people chose him over 2 dozen Republicans of varying but largely superior qualifications to be their nominee and over 60 million wanted him as chief exec of the world's most powerful country.
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The man still has a 38% approval rating. 4 out of 10 Americans think he's doing a good job. If that isn't hilarious in its absurdity, then I don't know what is.
So does that mean almost 4 in 10 Americans would cut off their nose to spite their face instead of admitting they're idiots and had their asses handed to them?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
The difference is that Trump lets it all hang out for everyone to see.
At least if Reagan had done that, we wouldn't have to squint.
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LOL.. Toxic is it? So the Whitehouse is a "toxic place" now eh?
Absolutely. Besides possibly Tillerson there's not a single competent staff member in Trump's cabinet. It is staggering, and it is only getting worse.
And remember, even Tillerson is officially out because he "needed some time off". What was the last time you heard about a Secretary of State taking time off?!
Uhm, the world is already adjusting to that scenario...all eyes on Merkel
I am at loss with words...
"People in the USA never realized what actually propelled them to #1, so they have no clue how to continue to be an example to the rest of the world."
I'm not sure about that. Total warfare with unconditional surrender as the goal was one of the methods. With nuclear weapons that is now a MAD option.
So we have our proxy wars and our security theater. Many look around and say "the world has never been in a worse state". Others look around and say things like "we're not killing each other by the hundreds of millions like we did last century" or "chances of being terror victim is less than a lightning strike". But that suits almost nobody's agenda.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Frankly, I'd like "my side" to quit acting like "the other side".
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
This is a pretty vague answer. What side is yours, how is it acting like the other side, and why is either side perceived by you to be behaving badly?
Activism is at the very core of American life. From the very beginning, the idea of concerned groups of citizens gathering together for a cause, whether that be Abolition, women's suffrage, or heck, taxation with representation (to go ALL the way back) have been a feature of American life. I'm sure there were people who groaned every time someone brought up slavery or women lacking voting rights, and you can be sure there were some soon-to-be Empire Loyalists who were sure tired of all those cranky irritable colonists bitching and moaning about King George.
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My point is that someone with no communications experience and who was apparently mentally unsound was appointed as Director of Communications, quickly went on a vulgarity-laden on the record tirade to a reporter, and it wasn't until General Kelly was appointed Chief of Staff that this man was thrown out.
Apart from the possibility of mental disturbance, why is it exactly that this man was appointed to a position for which he no experience at all to begin with? Trying to claim it's a win for the Trump Administration that they outed him doesn't seem to grapple with the fact that he was there at all.
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The problem is that tens of millions of people chose him over 2 dozen Republicans of varying but largely superior qualifications to be their nominee
The Republican party nominated Donald Trump because the nomination process is mathematically stupid. He won with a minority of the voters supporting him. The party didn't choose him, the poor process did. It really only works if there are only 2 candidates. With so many, it was botched.
Had he not eeked out enough votes in the end to get the required, the decision would have gone to the party leadership. They would have picked someone else. If the other Republican candidates weren't so arrogant, they could have dropped out earlier and rallied around one other candidate. The parties need to fix their nomination process. But even after this debacle they still won't. The voting public just doesn't understand the process. I wonder if you gave them a vote, but the vote was meaningless, if they would still support the process.
This was in regards to trump, not premiers, governor's, senate or house members.
In the U.S., for presidents, 38% is a terrible approval rating.
Carter was not re-elected after 4 years as he got close. Nixon resigned halfway through his term. Bush was only at that at the very end of his presidency and term limit. Otherwise, you have to go back to Truman, and the same holds true there.
A rating at this point in any presidency is considered terrible by any measure. Citation