The Kook, 'the Mooch' and the Loot - Charles M. Blow
On Friday, a president with no political experience brought on a communications director with no communications experience.
Trump tapped Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street snake investment huckster, to be the new communications director, a move that caused Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who The New York Times reported vehemently disagreed with the appointment, to resign.
So, let me get this straight: Spicer was just fine with regularly walking out to that podium to spew and spin Trumps lies, but hiring the Mooch, as Scaramucci is known, was the back-breaker? O.K., whatever, Sean.
This illustrates best what is wrong with this communications shop, and by extension, this administration: No one is concerned with the truth; they are only concerned with their own trajectories.
Nothing about this White House communications department was ever about communicating. On the contrary, it has always been about deception, concealment and equivocation. Informing the public was never the mission. Flattering Trump was the mission. But in the end, Trump will never be satisfied, because successful communications for him is to get people to buy his pack of lies, and that isnt really working the way it once did.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/anthony-scaramucci-sean-spicer-truth.html
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