Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role
Source: New York Times
BREAKING NEWS
President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, as requested by the new chief of staff, John Kelly
2:35 PM
WASHINGTON President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, 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 presidents senior staff.
Mr. Scaramuccis 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 presidents first chief of staff.
The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kellys request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.
It was not clear whether Mr. Scaramucci will remain employed at the White House in another position or will leave altogether.
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Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)FakeNoose
(32,202 posts)Fire Spicer and Priebus, and then get the hell out.
It's a sure thing that Bannon hated him, but that was probably true before Mooch was even hired.
keithbvadu2
(36,305 posts)Mucci was a useful tool, then disposable.
Trump didn't have the guts to do it himself and got Mucci to do it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Drum
(8,888 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,433 posts)Mooch was designated hitter, Kelly cleanup hitter.....wait ...whose on third....forget it!
What an absolute mess, clean up on isle 6, the shitisle!
Xipe Totec
(43,866 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)especially since Jon Stewart was in that movie (badly miscast to boot)
forgotmylogin
(7,492 posts)Did his feet even hit the ground before they dumped him?
onetexan
(12,971 posts)but quite appropriate given this is an administration of gangstas
forgotmylogin
(7,492 posts)Link to tweet
He can just delete all these, I'm sure. It won't take as long as deleting his anti-Trump threads.
sinkingfeeling
(51,202 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,613 posts)Had Mooch officially started in that role? I thought it became offical later this week.
beastie boy
(9,004 posts)Apparently, so is Moochi's!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Gothmog
(143,654 posts)Docreed2003
(16,795 posts)MurderMittenLiberal
(92 posts)I wonder how long it's been since Bannon has even seen his own c*ck...
Chrysanthemum
(187 posts)Maybe he has a full-length mirror.
Now that's a scary thought, Steve Bannon in a full-length mirror...
MurderMittenLiberal
(92 posts)Now I'm sitting at work imagining a naked Bannon talking to himself in the mirror like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs....
"Buffalo Bannon"
NeoGreen
(4,030 posts)...oh never mind, I can't go there...
calimary
(80,522 posts)Now that's an image of Steve Bannon I won't be able to get out of my head.
Hell, any image of Steve Bannon CLOTHED is bad enough.
FakeNoose
(32,202 posts)Whoops - forgot to say NSFW
GopherGal
(1,983 posts)How about an eye bleach alert?
3catwoman3
(23,748 posts)...dinner, either!
GopherGal
(1,983 posts)he has a reflection in a mirror...
SergeStorms
(18,758 posts)I doubt he has one. I believe there must be a heart pumping blood through the circulatory system. The Vamps have taken that out of their equation.
Welcome to DU! There have been so many new members coming in since Trump slithered into office. It's great!
swimboy
(7,278 posts)They have mirrors in the White House!
Martin Eden
(12,786 posts)Maeve
(42,199 posts)Was he even formally hired yet??
George II
(67,782 posts)Doc Coco
(58 posts)Hot money on the 7 day or less pool.
George II
(67,782 posts)Doc Coco
(58 posts)*rofl*
calimary
(80,522 posts)I do wonder how long his new Chief of Staff will last. The general is going to expect, or expect to impose - a rather strong and rigid chain-of-command. Getting rid of Scaramucci went more swiftly than I expected. I wonder if Jared and Ivanka will be included in that? I can't imagine they'll be too happy about having to go through somebody to get to Daddy. If push comes to shove, wonder who will be shoved?
forgotmylogin
(7,492 posts)Botany
(70,219 posts)You can't make this stuff up.
BTW the soon to be ex Mrs. Mooch is gonna be taking a lot of his money too.
rurallib
(62,328 posts)calimary
(80,522 posts)"Told him to suck his own c**k, I guess."
UpInArms
(51,244 posts)Alex Jones?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Mooch you were sent to clean house but got swept out the door instead
Drum
(8,888 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,873 posts)Docreed2003
(16,795 posts)I said in another thread just a bit ago that was asking "Where's the mooch?" That I bet he got too big for his britches and was taking too much of the limelight from trump!! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!! Lmao
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,615 posts)Warpy
(110,746 posts)Danascot
(4,635 posts)"A stupid man's idea of a smart man.
A poor man's idea of a rich man.
A weak man's idea of a strong man."
No idea who came up with it though the stupid part has been around a while.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,482 posts)TRUMP really leaves no hole uncovered, eh?
riversedge
(69,540 posts)Chrysanthemum
(187 posts)only the VERY BEST people.
forgotmylogin
(7,492 posts)like the worst job right now?
"I finished all Scaramucci's paperwork!"
"Thanks!" (drops it in wastebasket)
GreenPartyVoter
(72,376 posts)no_hypocrisy
(45,634 posts)And I hope you enjoy your divorce twice as much as I did mine.
riversedge
(69,540 posts)PSPS
(13,484 posts)LuckyLib
(6,812 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)It is officially called an annulment.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,584 posts)I guess Trump made a silly decision hiring him in the first place.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)character. All someone has to do is tell him what he wants to hear and Trump falls hard. It's a very dangerous character defect for a president to possess.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)calimary
(80,522 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)jpak
(41,724 posts)Ya sick fuck
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,070 posts)as long as Scaramucci was the comm director? The article says Kelly didn't want Scaramucci reporting directly to Trump but maybe he didn't want him around at all. I can't imagine a Marine general tolerating the likes of that creep. Now let's see how long Kelly puts up with SCROTUS himself.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...he fires Jared and Ivanka.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,070 posts)Jared and Ivanka will always be able to bypass Kelly.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Trump had asked Kelly several times to take the job, & Kelly refused. For Kelly to accept, and being an orderly general and all, I'm sure he sat down w/Trump and clarified his duties & authority.
Trump is relying on Kelly to bring some order to the W.H., so he's willing to do what Kelly says...for now. Because what's been done so far isn't working.
Good for Kelly that he zeroed in on this vile excuse for a Communications Director.
BamaRefugee
(3,473 posts)calimary
(80,522 posts)He was too busy on his knees to The Donald, alternating between worshipping and fellating.
I'd dump him, too, for that.
NNadir
(33,367 posts)underpants
(182,075 posts)LudwigPastorius
(8,899 posts)SunSeeker
(51,302 posts)Up to now, we have been blessedly spared from the Trump agenda thanks to Trump's incompetence. If Kelly whips those miscreants into shape, Trump might actually get Trumpcare passed, leaving millions without healthcare and killing tens of thousands of people.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,070 posts)Things might settle down for a bit, but if Kelly ever clashes with Jared or Ivanka by objecting to them bypassing him on WH business, or if there's a power struggle vs. Bannon or Miller or any of the other orcs, it will fall apart again. SCROTUS likes chaos and he likes pitting his staff members against each other. To him the WH is just a bigger version of The Apprentice. I don't see Kelly sticking around for very long; either Trump will fire him because of some clash with Jared&Ivanka, or Kelly will quit because Trump won't let him do his job.
LenaBaby61
(6,963 posts)Kelly won't last either. Plus, the things tRumputin wants to get done isn't going to help anyone but himself and the rich. He and thuglicans are on the wrong side of history.
This treasonous White House is nothing but contemptible & vile.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and agreed to back up Kelly's decisions, in a desperate effort to bring some order and efficiency to the W.H.
We know Trump won't stick with it...but looks like he's trying for now.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)underpants
(182,075 posts)Trump can't help but get in his own way.
IronLionZion
(45,164 posts)he can probably control the white house staff like a Marine Corps General would but he doesn't have authority over Senators and Congresspeople. Especially since Dumpy already had his goons threaten to destroy the great states of Alaska and Maine, maybe Arizona too.
SunSeeker
(51,302 posts)He just know how to bark orders. That is not how laes are made. He was basically in charge (or was supposed to be in charge) of the travel ban rollout, which was a total clusterfuck.
Thanks for talking me off the ledge.
Watalapan
(93 posts)And serve food and beverages
calimary
(80,522 posts)I can't think of a thing I would have kept him around for. Except maybe hairdresser? Then he could coo all he wanted about how much he loved it, or loved the hair, or loved the hair-wearer, or how handsome/gorgeous/sexy... Or how 'bout pants hemmer? That way he'd be on his knees - a position he was anxious to fill around trump.
RKP5637
(67,008 posts)mobeau69
(11,033 posts)Marcuse
(7,376 posts)If not, combined with the divorce, see ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.
paleotn
(17,759 posts)Unless he sticks around and rearranges press room chairs, no exemption for him.
hatrack
(59,388 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)You're probably a real shitty person.
classykaren
(769 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)SethH
(170 posts)paleotn
(17,759 posts)One minute they're your best friends....the next you get wacked. "queue Good Fellas music....."
lunasun
(21,646 posts)shooting off his mouth and strutting around acting all crazy f'd up in the place.
He had to go
Response to Drum (Original post)
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stonecutter357
(12,678 posts)Yavin4
(35,310 posts)Ever.
syringis
(5,101 posts)Or more likely, infernal din chairs game
Not really was is expected from a "finely tuned machine" pretending to rule a nation...
I don't know in wich dimension these people evolve, but it is certainly one as far from ours than is the edge of the universe.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Even in New Jersey Scaramucci is considered far too mooch of a blow hard.
But that's not the firing I'm waiting ever so patiently for.
For me it's all about the yer fired side chat Trump has with my old buddy Jeff ! The big bon fire I call that! Back to Scaramucci,the truth is he sucks and for all the bad in that whats worse is he's a hypocrite who thinks he's a tough guy and drinks too much beer !
orangecrush
(19,151 posts)What happened, Mooch?
SeattleVet
(5,461 posts)the first question that would be asked is, "Who hired this guy?"
StevieM
(10,499 posts)the Trump administration, and was gone just like that.
Botany
(70,219 posts)EllieBC
(2,953 posts)It's exhausting. This administration is exhausting. I bet that's what he's going for. Tire everyone out and then run over everyone.
DemoTex
(25,334 posts)What a loser!
RussBLib
(8,950 posts)I heard somewhere Mooch's wife is 9 months pregnant.
RKP5637
(67,008 posts)classykaren
(769 posts)LudwigPastorius
(8,899 posts)There's more churn going on in the White House than at an Amish Dairy Festival.
Who knew that most Burger King employees would have a longer tenure on the job than your average White House staffer?
Lucky Luciano
(11,237 posts)Drum
(8,888 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="
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(3,384 posts)charge."
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yeah I don't think so...
dalton99a
(80,910 posts)Bigger Mouth has to go
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,339 posts)About the Russia investigation and not being completely divested from her fashion line.
Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, they could be next to go.
VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,816 posts)I can't help laughing to myself about this guy's abrupt termination. Too bad SNL is on vacation.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)What about Jared and Ivanka's conflicts of interest?
C'mon General Kelly...man up!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)on the sale of Skybridge?
IronLionZion
(45,164 posts)Or does he have to go spend some more time with himself Bannon-style while his family divorces him? I hope Dierdre continues the divorce.
What a d-bag.
They should still do an SNL skit about him
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Now I guess it's going to have to switch to "Another One Bites the Dust".
I'm starting to think Freddie Mercury predicted all of this.
DeminPennswoods
(15,240 posts)to go home to either.
You just cannot make this stuff up.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,083 posts).. Now he's gone and thrown it all away.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)We need to show this to kids--your life on Trump.
Sancho
(9,064 posts)i was just starting to get good at a basic mooch impression.
well, if it makes the country better i'll go along.
ButSeeYa
(273 posts)[link:|
cstanleytech
(26,027 posts)3catwoman3
(23,748 posts)...The 3 Stooges.
stollen
(405 posts)Look forward to the outcome.
Danascot
(4,635 posts)We hardly knew thee,
but even 10 days was way too much of a bad thing.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,673 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)The tax savings far outweigh and pension or benefits. Can people unsell a business? He probably had a prenup, but if the alimony is based on his govt salary, perhaps everything changes after the divorce filing, so this might be a good time for him to go back to Wall Street.
xor
(1,204 posts)I can suspend my belief to an extent, but these soap operas have to at least be somewhat realistic.
Oh. This is real life?
CCExile
(451 posts)Nothing to see here, people, move along. No chaos here people. Please disperse. Just another pyrotechnic clown-car fire involving a sewage truck, some penguins, the Cabinet, some big marmalade colored thing, and a troupe of Trans Boy Scouts. Move along. Nothing to see here...
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,243 posts)Drum
(8,888 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)avebury
(10,941 posts)Iggo
(47,470 posts)Classic fictional management move from a glorified salesman in over his head.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That has to be the shortest tenure of a W.H. Com. Director in history. Looks like Kelly is really going to try to shape things up, and Trump is actually listening????
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Not recognizing that he wasn't experienced in W.H. Communications, and had a lot to learn. He starts off with a bang, like I'm sure he ran his hedge fund...foul mouthed, name-calling, backstabbing his coworkers, unprofessional, ignorant of the facts and the law (despite having gone to Harvard Law School?)...right out of the gate, before he was even officially employed.
He really was so wrong as a Comm Director, which Trump should have known.
I imagine this sort of thing is going on behind the scenes in the various agencies & departments, where Trump named a lot of people for posts for which they are utterly unqualified.
Iggo
(47,470 posts)I think he did.
I think it was theater.
blue-wave
(4,297 posts)The mooch got the smooch!!!
MFM008
(19,764 posts)For being to vulgar???!!!
WTF are they going to do with the
Maggot in chief??????
raven mad
(4,940 posts)3catwoman3
(23,748 posts)...wasn't off the record. When you are in that prominent a position pretty much everything is on the record, and if you are too stupid to realize that, or too uninformed to specifically request being off the record, then you have no business being in said prominent position.
syringis
(5,101 posts)One of pityclown campaign promises, was to increase number of workers.
For once that a promise is more or less kept...
Euh...He might just have forgot to mention the turnover...especially in the chaotic circus, he turned the WH in...
ailsagirl
(22,833 posts)Marthe48
(16,567 posts)she didn't take scaramucchi's advice on the hair and make-up. There was one day the make-up covered up the pure evil, but it must have melted off.
Zorro
(15,690 posts)WASHINGTONFollowing his abrupt dismissal just 10 days after being named White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci reportedly received an outpouring of sympathetic texts Monday from friends and family expressing that they were so fuckin sorry to hear about this shit.
My deepest motherfuckin condolences, Tony, its terrible to hear you got shit-canned by these ass-munching cocks in D.C., read a text message in part, just one of dozens sent by old buddies at Goldman Sachs, current business partners at SkyBridge Capital, and extended family in New Jersey in response to his goddamn bullshit dismissal.
Sorry to hear those bitches gave you the fucking ax, Mooch. That jackass [John] Kelly got no fucking clue what a good fuckin dude you are. Just know your mother and I always got your fucking back.
At press time, Scaramuccis New York office was reportedly filled with flower arrangements and handwritten cards lamenting that this was absolute fucking trash.
http://www.theonion.com/article/so-fuckin-sorry-hear-about-shit-reads-outpouring-s-56528