'Va-Mooch!' – How America's newspapers reacted to Anthony Scaramucci's shock departure
The tweet came one day after retired Gen. John Kelly took over as Trump’s new chief of staff. “He will do spectacular job I have no doubt”, President Donald Trump said.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Kelly “has the full authority to carry out business as he sees fit” and that all White House staffers will report to him, including powerful aides such as Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, and chief strategist Steve Bannon.
His departure comes after Trump’s new chief of staff, General John Kelly was sworn in on Monday.
The big question is whether Kelly can really clean house, ridding the administration of the unqualified, inept gang of competing power centers which have made the first six-plus months of Trump’s presidency far more of a disaster than necessary. What good did that do Preibus and the Trump administration?
However, his brief 11-day tenure had been already marked by the departure of former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who resigned to protest against Scaramucci’s arrival, and a public feud the New Yorker had with Reince Priebus, Kelly’s predecessor.
A few hours later, Scaramucci was facing Kelly in the chief of staff’s corner office, learning his West Wing days were over.
Seth Meyers In his “Late Night” segment “A Closer Look”, Meyers likened the recent White House drama to a “middle school cafeteria”.
And this time when Trump looks for a communications chief, he should find someone with actual communications skills and experience dealing with the media – like knowing how to say “off the record” before you rant to a reporter.
But ultimately the Trump family member that needs controlling the most is Donald.
But “the Mooch” hadn’t even technically started his job, Noah said, noting that Scaramucci’s official start date was slated to be August 15.
No one will ever know exactly what was going through Donald Trump’s head when he made a decision to fire Anthony Scaramucci. The White House had originally said that his official start date as a government employee was to be August 15, although he appeared to begin performing his duties immediately.
Sessions, who attended a Cabinet meeting at the White House Monday, is slated to speak Tuesday to a group of black law enforcement leaders in Atlanta about his efforts to support police as part of his tough-on-crime agenda. “I said, “Please don’t be too nice, ‘” Trump said to applause, referring to officers shielding prisoners” heads with their hands.
Two of President Trump’s top advisers reportedly agreed in the early days of the administration that they would not leave the United States at the same time, in order to ensure they could monitor orders coming from the White House. The president has no such plans, she said. Before Scaramucci was sacked, he had allegedly boasted about his direct line of communication with Trump, circumventing the chief of staff.
Anthony Scaramucci is not done with D.C. yet – the morning after he bolted from the White House, he was cruising out of the Trump Hotel. and talking about his future. But the Arizona lawmaker predicts they won’t back down if Trump fires the special prosecutor investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. That access could cease under Kelly’s watch if he takes a more traditional approach to the post, Purdy said. Perhaps that’s why the man who became famous off the phrase, “You’re fired”, has only fired four people himself since his term began, opting instead to make others do the dirty work – or shaming those he wants out into quitting.
“If a president has trust in his chief of staff, and knows he has his best interests at heart, he can give him great leeway to being a gatekeeper”.