The Trump Administration
Scaramucci
Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci, a.k.a., the Mooch, White House Communications Director. —FIRED 31 July 2017
Day 640
Sunday 21 October 2018
Scaramucci said that while he applauds the retired Marine Corps general’s service, “he hurt the morale inside the place, and he’s hurt the president, and he has hissy fits.”
Day 411
Tuesday 6 March 2018
The President has emboldened Anthony Scaramucci, the boisterous former communications director who was fired after just 10 days, to continue attacking White House chief of staff John Kelly during his cable news appearances
Day 313
Tuesday 28 November 2017
"I think she does the best of her ability to tell the truth but also to protect the President, and so I think that there's a fine line to draw between those two things."
Day 206
Sunday 13 August 2017
He then accused Bannon ... of being a bad influence on the president and advised Trump to distance himself from him.
Day 193
Monday 31 July 2017
“Jesus, we can’t just take back these assholes all at once—we need time to process one before we get the next”
By the end of last week, the well-documented chaos in President Trump’s White House had reached such a crescendo that the New York Post’s Friday, July 28, cover characterized the administration’s key players as contestants in a game of Survivor.
Trump fired communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday at the urging of new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, a clear sign that the retired Marine general is being empowered to manage what has been an unwieldy West Wing operation.
Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, a little more than a week after the former financier was named to the post
Day 192
Sunday 30 July 2017
In a series of tweets Sunday morning, Arthur Schwartz, a former spokesperson and self-described friend of ... Scaramucci, lit into ... Priebus, accusing him of having a mistress.
By mid-morning, however, Schwartz had an apparent change of heart toward Priebus. Schwartz deleted two of his earlier tweets and publicly apologized.
The reversal came after Schwartz tweeted ... that Scaramucci had asked him to “cut it out.”
Day 191
Saturday 29 July 2017
Priebus's departure is a further indication that ... the administration ... is planning to survive by going full thug. That's why Scaramucci was brought in, and why his profane indiscretions weren't enough to fire him.
Day 190
Friday 28 July 2017
“I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter,” Scaramucci tweeted on Thursday night. “It won’t happen again.”
Day 189
Thursday 27 July 2017
“What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people”
Scaramucci’s Old Testament reference looks like a pretty direct threat to his “brother”: After all, in Genesis, Cain kills Abel.
Day 188
Wednesday 26 July 2017
The disclosure highlights the extensive wealth Scaramucci has accumulated ... and also the challenge he faces in extracting himself from the potential conflicts his investments could pose.
Day 187
Tuesday 25 July 2017
“I’m going to fire everybody — that’s how,” Mr. Scaramucci told reporters in the White House driveway, when asked how he planned to identify who had been disclosing information to reporters without authorization and ensure that the leaks stopped.
Day 185
Sunday 23 July 2017
"The truth of the matter is that the president isn't going to have to pardon anybody because the Russia thing is a nonsensical thing," Scaramucci continued.
Day 184
Saturday 22 July 2017
In previous tweets, the Wall Street financier called Hillary Clinton “incredibly competent” and appeared to be at odds with his new boss on issues such as gun control, climate change, Islam and illegal immigration.
Day 183
Friday 21 July 2017
“Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation said that Scaramucci is being primed to eventually take on the position of chief of staff.”
Scaramucci has a contentious relationship with both Spicer and Priebus, each of whom vehemently objected to Trump’s decision to install him in the top communications job.
...telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
Day 158
Monday 26 June 2017
Critics will long cite this episode as evidence that CNN is precisely what Trump has called it — “fake news.” Yet the departure of three journalists immediately following a mangled story provides a counterpoint to this particular slander. Purveyors of fake news, after all, don’t take drastic personnel moves following a bogus story. They rejoice in it.
Day 155
Friday 23 June 2017
The now-deleted story ... was published Thursday and cited a single, unnamed source who claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking into a "$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump's transition team four days before Trump's inauguration."