Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role

[Drum]

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 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.

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. Kelly’s 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.


<<edit title>>

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/politics/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65644663&pgtype=Homepage

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. The Mooch got whacked!

[FakeNoose]

49. My theory is he only had to do 2 things

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]

110. Mucci was a useful tool, then disposable.

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]

117. Also, what perfect distraction timing. Donnie Jr and Russia was all the headlines.

[Drum]

146. Love those skelly-GIFs

[RestoreAmerica2020]

162. Mooch was the clean up batter...set up priebus and bannon for the hit...wait....

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]

83. In the chest. nt

[flibbitygiblets]

90. I predict the Daily Show Headline: "Death to Moochy"

especially since Jon Stewart was in that movie (badly miscast to boot)

[forgotmylogin]

94. Holy crap!

Did his feet even hit the ground before they dumped him?

[onetexan]

108. LOL it sounds so gangsta

but quite appropriate given this is an administration of gangstas

[forgotmylogin]

138. He needs to update his Twitter.

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]

2. Now that's funny!!!

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. That must be a record!

Had Mooch officially started in that role? I thought it became offical later this week.

[beastie boy]

66. Today is Spicey's last day on the job

Apparently, so is Moochi's!

[Honeycombe8]

140. How IRONIC!!! I bet Spicey loves that! Bwahahahaha. nt

[Gothmog]

4. What will the Mooch being doing?

[Docreed2003]

28. Heard he'll be learning new skills from Steve Bannon...

[MurderMittenLiberal]

36. lol

I wonder how long it's been since Bannon has even seen his own c*ck...

[Chrysanthemum]

52. Maybe he has

Maybe he has a full-length mirror.

Now that's a scary thought, Steve Bannon in a full-length mirror...

[MurderMittenLiberal]

76. Great..

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]

85. It puts the lotion on its...

...oh never mind, I can't go there...

[calimary]

113. Welcome to DU, MurderMittenLiberal!

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]

148. I hear ya - I think I've got something

Whoops - forgot to say NSFW

[GopherGal]

151. NSFW?

How about an eye bleach alert?

[3catwoman3]

154. NSF looking at during...

...dinner, either!

[GopherGal]

152. You're assuming...

he has a reflection in a mirror...

[SergeStorms]

155. Good one!

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]

60. Come on!

They have mirrors in the White House!

[Martin Eden]

161. Paying Alimony n/t

[Maeve]

5. That was quick!

Was he even formally hired yet??

[George II]

6. Holy Crap! My apolitical wife saw his first "appearance" and said "I give him four weeks"!!!

[Doc Coco]

44. The next guy may last even shorter.

Hot money on the 7 day or less pool.

[George II]

50. Perhaps "7 day cess pool"?

[Doc Coco]

67. Good one!

*rofl*

[calimary]

118. Welcome to DU, Doc Coco!

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]

99. Betting pools across the nation upended.

[SHRED]

7. LOL

[Botany]

8. Hey, what are you looking @? Can't a fellow suck his own dick in peace?

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]

75. flexibility training

[calimary]

80. HAH!!! I just texted something like that to my husband.

"Told him to suck his own c**k, I guess."

[UpInArms]

9. Who's next as communications director?

Alex Jones?

[lunasun]

38. Kelly is a fear monger so who knows

Mooch you were sent to clean house but got swept out the door instead

[Drum]

10. Mooch screwed the pooch n/t

[C_U_L8R]

19. Moochie ouchie.

[ancianita]

11. ...

[Docreed2003]

12. Hahahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha......

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]

13. I'm glad, but Christ this is the most mismanaged organization in history.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Donald tRump is a stupid person's idea of a smart man. . . . nt

[Warpy]

57. And a blundering middle manager's idea of a brilliant CEO

[Danascot]

109. I've seen it expressed:

"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]

14. Bye, Felicia.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. This PROVES the WINNING SUCCESS of Trump's DEEP VETTING

TRUMP really leaves no hole uncovered, eh?

[riversedge]

22. Trumps very poor judgment shows itself again!

[Chrysanthemum]

59. He promised

only the VERY BEST people.

[forgotmylogin]

101. So...is White House HR

like the worst job right now?

"I finished all Scaramucci's paperwork!"
"Thanks!" (drops it in wastebasket)

[GreenPartyVoter]

145. Or unshat in.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. You're Fired!!

And I hope you enjoy your divorce twice as much as I did mine.

[riversedge]

25. Wonder if trump himsself did the deed?

[PSPS]

106. I'm pretty sure Kelly gave trump an ultimatum.

[LuckyLib]

126. When he had chocolate brown hair, was using the same brand hair color as Ronnie and Nancy.

[louis c]

17. "Mooch" did not get fired

It is officially called an annulment.

[Honeycombe8]

141. But what about the children? Are the mini-cheetos now illegitimate? nt

[UCmeNdc]

18. Well that didn't last long

I guess Trump made a silly decision hiring him in the first place.

[smirkymonkey]

111. Trump is too susceptible to ass-kissers, which is why he's such a poor judge of

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]

20. And leave the cannoli, too!

[calimary]

119. "...won't be seeing him around here no more."

[WinkyDink]

136. ;-)

[jpak]

21. Mooch - we hardly knew ya

Ya sick fuck

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Was this the result of Kelly telling Trump he wouldn't take the COS job

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]

27. I'll believe Kelly when...

...he fires Jared and Ivanka.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. That won't happen, of course.

Jared and Ivanka will always be able to bypass Kelly.

[Honeycombe8]

142. My guess is that Kelly worked out his authority w/Trump BEFORE taking the job.

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]

24. So the Scarimucci marriage is saved???

[calimary]

120. He evidently wasn't anywhere around when his wife HAD THEIR BABY.

He was too busy on his knees to The Donald, alternating between worshipping and fellating.

I'd dump him, too, for that.

[NNadir]

26. Oh shit. Our government is being run by temps. n/t

[underpants]

34. It's The Apprentice- seriously

[LudwigPastorius]

86. The Manpower government

[SunSeeker]

29. The cloud in this silver lining: Kelly might help Trump get shit done.

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]

39. Kelly won't be able to control Trump.

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]

42. "Kelly might help Trump get shit done."

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]

143. Kelly's off to a good start, tho. Could be that Trump sees the writing on the wall....

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]

46. Also check out his DHS rep.

[underpants]

56. That's true. But let's remember the trump card

Trump can't help but get in his own way.

[IronLionZion]

92. I'm not sure Kelly is going to whip votes in Congress

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]

150. Good point. He really doesn't know how to schmooze legislators.

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]

32. I would have kept him for cleaning carpets

And serve food and beverages

[calimary]

121. Welcome to DU, Watalapan!

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]

124. In an old-time bellboy uniform!

[mobeau69]

33. At least he has that nice looking blonde wife to...ah, never mind.

[Marcuse]

35. Does he still get the White House capital gains exemption?

If not, combined with the divorce, see ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.

[paleotn]

51. Never officially employed.....

Unless he sticks around and rearranges press room chairs, no exemption for him.

[hatrack]

37. He's looking forward to not spending more time with his wife and infant son . . .

[flygal]

40. ...

[Corvo Bianco]

41. A shoutout to everybody who got the axe from their wife and their employer within the span of a week

You're probably a real shitty person.

[classykaren]

74. Plus have a new son that you haven't bothered to see.

[tammywammy]

43. Bwahahaha ha he wasn't even officially starting until 15 August. n/t

[SethH]

53. so he can't even file for unemployment

[paleotn]

45. And that's how it happens.....

One minute they're your best friends....the next you get wacked. "queue Good Fellas music....."

[lunasun]

55. He reminds me of joe Pesci character in Casino more. No serious thugs need a fuck up like Mooch

shooting off his mouth and strutting around acting all crazy f'd up in the place.
He had to go

[stonecutter357]

48. Is that a a new york minute ?

[Yavin4]

54. Worst Season of Survivor Ever.

Ever.

[syringis]

58. musical chairs game ...

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]

134. What I said a few shuffles back it will come down to this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1825923

[Doug the Dem]

61. The Bulkheads are Collapsing Apace

[George II]

62. They have it on video!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

63. Chris here : }

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]

64. Holey Moley!

What happened, Mooch?

[SeattleVet]

65. If someone was fired after 10 days in any other organization,

the first question that would be asked is, "Who hired this guy?"

[StevieM]

68. Wow. That was quick. He blew in like a hurricane, was the new big and crazy thing in

the Trump administration, and was gone just like that.

[Botany]

69. What will happen to the Mooch?

[EllieBC]

70. I don't think I can handle 3.5 more years of this much winning.

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]

71. Lost his wife and his job this week, whilst licking the rump of Trump.

What a loser!

[RussBLib]

95. warning: get near Trump and risk losing your job and your wife

I heard somewhere Mooch's wife is 9 months pregnant.

[RKP5637]

129. tRump farted and blew "The Mooch" out the door! n/t

[classykaren]

72. Is that the fastest White House firing in History? Is it?

[demmiblue]

73. !

[vkkv]

77. K&R

[LudwigPastorius]

78. Holy crap...

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]

79. Not even enough time for a god damned SNL skit. This sucks. nt

[Drum]

82. Too bad for Mario Cantone....

[MrPurple]

91. at least he got one outing in

<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="

?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

[lunasun]

135. Perfecto

[vkkv]

81. "Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in

charge."


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


yeah I don't think so...

[dalton99a]

84. "Nobody can have a bigger mouth than me"

Bigger Mouth has to go

[ProudMNDemocrat]

87. Jared and Ivanka need to be worried

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]

88. 10 whole days! lets see what they do with Mr. StayPuff now

[Sanity Claws]

89. I hope this came early enough for Steven Colbert to do something on it tonight

I can't help laughing to myself about this guy's abrupt termination. Too bad SNL is on vacation.

[muntrv]

93. Death to Moochy.

[SHRED]

96. The Mooch was low hanging fruit. That was easy.

What about Jared and Ivanka's conflicts of interest?
C'mon General Kelly...man up!

[frazzled]

97. Maybe 10 days was all he needed to get his tax break

on the sale of Skybridge?

[IronLionZion]

98. So he wouldn't do the fandango?

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]

104. I've had that song in my head for two weeks, thanks to him.

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]

100. Mooch doesn't even have a wife and newborn

to go home to either.

You just cannot make this stuff up.

[muriel_volestrangler]

102. Life had just begun ...

.. Now he's gone and thrown it all away.

[Corvo Bianco]

130. For a weekend with Donald.

We need to show this to kids--your life on Trump.

[Sancho]

103. How in the hell can SNL plan new shows if tRump keeps firing people!!??

[bora13]

105. damn!

i was just starting to get good at a basic mooch impression.
well, if it makes the country better i'll go along.

[ButSeeYa]

107. Are we winning yet? I've been patiently waiting.

[link:|

[cstanleytech]

112. Its official this administration is the replacement for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

[3catwoman3]

156. More like...

...The 3 Stooges.

[stollen]

114. Rachel, Lawrence and Chris will be busy today.

Look forward to the outcome.

[Danascot]

115. Alas, poor Scaramucci,

We hardly knew thee,
but even 10 days was way too much of a bad thing.

[6000eliot]

116. This is what happens to WH staffers who start getting more press than the Orange Clown.

[left-of-center2012]

122. Kelley proving he's in charge of the staff. n/t

[LiberalArkie]

123. Does he get the government severance package and pension?

[Not Ruth]

132. I believe that there was a BIG advantage to having to sell his business to avoid conflict ofinterest

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]

125. This TV show has such corny writing. Do the writers really expect to believe this?

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]

127. No chaos here...

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]

128. Hey little Tony, go get your fucking shine box.

[Drum]

160. +1 !!!

[Not Ruth]

131. Great news

[avebury]

133. Well that didn't last long. nt

[Iggo]

137. I suspect he was hired-to-be-fired.

Classic fictional management move from a glorified salesman in over his head.

[Honeycombe8]

139. WHAT????? I've been busy today, so check in, and see THIS? WOW!

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]

144. And for THIS Mooch lost his wife? Mooch made the gravest of errors....

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]

147. "...which Trump should have known."

I think he did.

I think it was theater.

[blue-wave]

149. This is such a great show!!

The mooch got the smooch!!!

[MFM008]

153. The ' mooch' got whacked?

For being to vulgar???!!!
WTF are they going to do with the
Maggot in chief??????

[raven mad]

157. So long, Scaramouch!

[3catwoman3]

158. I didn't buy his excuse that he didn't realize that his rant...

...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]

159. Look on the bright side

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]

163. Well, that didn't take long

[ffr]

164. 100 RECs

[Marthe48]

165. Huckabee is back to looking frumpy

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]

166. 'So Fuckin' Sorry To Hear About This Shit', Reads Outpouring Of Sympathetic Texts

WASHINGTON—Following 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, it’s 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, Scaramucci’s 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