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Another One Deserts The Trump-tanic

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He said he hoped to last a year, but he made it only half that long.  His resignation quite probably saved his life, or at the very least, his sanity.  Today, 21 July 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned.  Sean was out of his league, over his head from day #1 and anybody watching could tell the megalomaniac chaos in the White House was taking a toll on him.  I do not think Sean quite knew how to cope with the chaos and backstabbing that he had to contend with every day. I sincerely wish Sean Spicer the best of luck, and frankly I hope he begins tonight writing a book!

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Anthony Scaramucci

Mr. Spicer reportedly cited two reasons for his decision:  the continual chaos in the regime, and Trump’s appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communication director.  Just who, you ask, is Anthony Scaramucci?  For starters, as you may have guessed, he is yet another in the pool of billionaires that inhabit the upper echelons of our “democratic” government.  His qualifications for the job?  Apparently only his $1.5 billion net worth (though there seems to be some dispute about that), for he has no background nor education in either journalism or communications, unless one counts the time he spends cheering Trump on Fox News. Oh yes … three other qualifications:  1) he is white, 2) he is male, 3) he compliments Trump.

Scaramucci began his career at the infamous Goldman-Sachs in 1989.  He left Goldman Sachs in 1996 to start Oscar Capital Management. In 2005, Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment firm. He sold the company a few days before Trump’s inauguration in January in anticipation of joining Trump’s regime as director of the office of public liaison, but the Office of Government Ethics recommended against the appointment due to conflicts of interest related to Scaramucci’s overseas investments.

Other tidbits about Mr. Scaramucci:

  • In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year – New York Award in the Financial Services category.
  • In 2015, Scaramucci was ranked 91 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The Most Powerful People in Global Finance.
  • He is the author of three books:
    • The Little Book of Hedge Funds
    • Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul
    • Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success

But perhaps the thing tells us the most about the character of the man is the 180° change in his attitude toward Donald Trump.

Scaramucci was actually a supporter of President Obama in 2008, but critical of Obama’s Wall Street policies, switched to the Republican Party in 2012.

In 2015, speaking of Trump … “That’s another hack politician. He’s probably going to make Elizabeth Warren his vice-presidential nominee, with comments like that. It’s anti-American, it’s very, very divisive. And, I’ll tell you who he’s going to be president of. You can tell Donald I said this. The Queens county bullies association. You gotta cut it out now and stop all this crazy rhetoric, spinning everybody’s head around.”

And …

“I don’t like the way he talks about women. I don’t like the way he talks about our friend Megyn Kelly. And you know what? The politicians don’t want to go at Trump because he has a big mouth, and he’s afraid he’s going to light them up on Fox News and all these other places. But, I’m not a politician. You’re an inherited money dude from Queens county. Bring it Donald.”

And in 2017 … “If the president says it … my guess is there’s probably some level of truth to that.” And, “I don’t see this guy as a guy that’s ever under siege. The president’s a winner and what we’re going to do is we’re going to do a lot of winning.”

So … surprise, surprise … Mr. Scaramucci is not an honest man!  GASP!!!

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In January, just a few days before the inauguration, he is on record as saying …

“… the other thing I have learned about these people in Washington … is they have no money. So what happens when they have no f—ing money is they fight about what seat they are in and what the title is. F—ing congressmen act like that. They are f—ing jackasses.”

And this is the man who will now oversee all White House communications. Our best hope from this point forward for getting real information from the White House is the ‘leakers’.  Not that Sean Spicer ever told the truth, but at least with him, one could tell when he was lying or uncomfortable with what he was saying.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now the White House Press Secretary, is a much more accomplished liar and not nearly as personable as was Spicer.

We have an idea how future communications to the press will go with Scaramucci’s own words:

“I think there’s been, at times, a disconnect between the way we see the president and how much we love the president and the way some of you perhaps see the president. I certainly see the American people probably see the president the way I do. But we want to get that message out there.”

The press has its job cut out for it, trying to sift through the muck that is certain to come out of the White House in the coming weeks/months.  And Melissa McCarthy may be looking for a new job.

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Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer – Saturday Night Live (SNL)

What Happens When One Wallows With Hogs …

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I refuse to rescind an Idiot of the Week award, so I won’t.  But I have to admit that I currently have a great deal of sympathy for one of my former IOTW award winners, namely Sean Spicer.  He is still an idiot, but perhaps the main thing that makes him so is that he accepted the job as White House Press Secretary to begin with.  He worked on Trump’s campaign, he knew that Trump was a liar, a bully, and that the job of presenting him in the brightest light possible to the press would be an impossible task.  Still, he said ‘yes’, and he has paid a high price in the nearly four months Trump has been in office.

spicer-memeA recent op-ed written by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, who is a long-time friend of Spicer, reads:

“Alas, poor Spicer! I knew him well. He was one of the top Republican flacks in town, affable and quick-witted, always happy to dish with reporters off the record. I liked him. I still like him — or at least that Spicer I knew before he answered Donald Trump’s call.”

Milbank continues, “The president turned him into a national punchline on his first day on the job, forcing him to provide “alternative facts” about the inauguration.”

And then, of course, there are all those Saturday Night Live sketches which, I must admit, are pretty funny, but try to imagine how poor Sean feels sitting at home on Saturday night with his wife and children watching himself as the laughingstock of the nation.

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And now, the culmination of it all is that rumours are flying about Washington that Spicer will be replaced by the end of the week.  So yes, I do rather feel sorry for him.  He was woefully unprepared and unqualified for this position under this president, as only a consummate liar who is comfortable with dealing constantly in ‘alternative facts’, lies, contradictions and basically wallowing with the hogs could excel at the job. I suspect Sean Spicer is, deep down, too good a person to work for Trump.

So who, you ask, will replace Sean?  Well, my first thought was that last week’s press briefings by Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a ‘job interview’ of sorts, and a number of the DC pundits agreed with me.  But then as of yesterday, it is rumoured that one Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News is top dog for the position.  I did not like Sanders because in her first press briefing she said it was time to “move on” from the Russian investigations, and I was incensed.  I cursed my laptop, saying, “No, you dumba## bi$%&, I WILL NOT move on until I have all the answers!!!”  My trusty Dell cursed back, saying “command unknown”.  Sigh.

But as much as I disliked Ms. Sanders, I dislike Ms. Guilfoyle even more.  First, she is actively campaigning for the position and says she possesses the necessary qualities … which are, as I noted above, being a master of lies, contradictions, and wallowing in slop with the hogs.  By her own admission, then, she possesses those qualities.  Add to that a bonus qualification: she is a back-stabber, being perfectly willing to knock poor Sean off the podium.

My next reason for disliking her is this statement she made:

“I think I have a very good relationship with the president. I think I enjoy a very straightforward and authentic, very genuine relationship, one that’s built on trust and integrity, and I think that’s imperative for success in that position”.

Certain keywords here throw up red flags:  straightforward, authentic, genuine, trust, and integrity.  Not a single one of those words can be applied to Donald Trump even under the best of circumstances.  So this proves her to be either of a very low IQ, or of a very low character … or both.  And this …

“If you want to be successful and do communications with President Trump, you have to be someone who he actually wants to spend a little bit of time with.”  Shades of Monica Lewinsky?  I wonder if she owns a blue dress?

Third reason for my dislike: In her interview with the Bay Area News Group, Guilfoyle talked about Spicer as if he were already gone: “Sean Spicer is a very nice man and a patriot. He’s dedicated himself to this public service. Very tough position he’s in. I wish him the best, and I know he puts a lot of effort into it.”  Geez, lady, why don’t you just roast the pig before you kill it???

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My fourth and final reason, perhaps the least rational of the list, is that she currently works for Fox News and has a fake smile.

As of today, Sean Spicer is still the White House press secretary and reportedly was told by Trump that his job is safe … for now.  But we all know that nothing Trump says is necessarily the truth.  In reality, Sean Spicer would ultimately be far better off if he were let go.  Eventually he would get another job, one where he could once again learn to respect himself and do his job with integrity.  The past four months have taken a toll on the man, as evidenced by the before and after pictures.