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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.
Immediately after making the bad one to put him in the role in the first place.
Again and again I can't help but be reminded of this video. "If we screw up your vetting process, the next one is FREE!!!!!!"
So, apart from that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
When you have to keep firing people that you've hired it generally points to you not being a very good judge of character.
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.
It was Kelly.
It wasn't trump as he is too dumb to do that.
Part of me wonders if this was planned all along (and by all along I mean the last few days) as a way to get rid of Preibus. Trump obviously isn't happy with the GOP and getting rid of Priebus was a good way to put a shot over the GOP's bow. So, bring in Mooch, have him get into a pissing match with Priebus, use that as an excuse to get rid of Priebus, and bring in Kelly who might be more loyal to Trump. Then, when Mooch has done his job, cut him loose. Trump gets to get rid of poor Spicey, gets to rebuke the GOP over their failed repeal of Obamacare, and gets a new Chief of Staff and (eventually) a new Communications Director.
Of course, the other part of me thinks Trump is so unhinged and disjointed he can't even plan far enough ahead to decide whether he wants original or extra crispy KFC waiting for him in the limo that takes him from Air Force One to Mar a Lago on his biweekly "definitely not golfing" weekend golf trips.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
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.
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Thunderbolts and lightning, very VERY frightening ME!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
That may have been true for previous administrations, when the White House was more of a workplace and less of a reality show.
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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Regardless, the fact that the Trump admin lets him go knowing that it's going to make them look bad is actually encouraging to me. When you make a mistake and instantly correct it, that's YUGE. Most government officials at that level tend to double down.
You could probably find a silver lining when buried under 50 feet of shit. Just because a bad mistake blows up in your face immediately does not mean fixing it after the fact is laudable. We have seen from both the Flynn and Scaramucci situations that the Trump administration didn't do anything until things had gotten quite bad already.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
As well it should remind you, as Scaramucci is the Italian form of Scaramouch as mentioned in Bohemian Rhapsody, and that's the only reference in popular American culture.
And conveniently, it fits Scaramucci perfectly! From Wikipedia:
So how does that apply to Scaramucci?
Could you get a more perfect name?
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IMO:
1) They vastly underestimate the work required. These are people who believe government doesn't do anything, so the people running the government must not do anything. So they believe the job is easy.
2) They have egos larger than galaxies, more fragile than egg shells, and relish the opportunity to show just how great they are.
Unfortunately these positions mean they are not always surrounded by obsequious underlings eager to sing their praises, so their incompetence becomes rapidly apparent. Thus damaging their massive but fragile egos.
Which causes them to lash out, demonstrating more incompetence, causing more damage, and so on.
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.
The Trump "Administration" has turned your government into a reality TV show, but instead of going to the green room to bad-mouth the other contestants in private they just go on CNN or Fox or Twitter.
The only real upside is that the whole this is so ineffective it can't do as much damage as people feared. The wall can't get funded, Obamacare is still there... The closest they have come to actually doing something is the half-assed travel ban, despite Trump's best efforts to screw his future self.
SAD.
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I've got a better take:
Trump is fighting the establishment because he and the people that support him are incompetent pieces of shit and they have to resort to the techniques of tinpot dictators to stay in office.
The establishment, as you like to use as a slur, is a whole lot of people that do the very hard job of running the most powerful country on earth. You know. Experts. The people you trust when sitting on your couch and bullshitting about topics you don't understand doesn't cut the mustard.
Running under the assumption that booting out "the establishment" and replacing it with people like Trump (And trump's supporters) will do anything but bring chaos and ruin and death is exactly why people like yourself should never vote.
That you don't recognize Trump as an even bigger shyster is telling
Don't know if he can do the Fandango, but he sure can do the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.