Why Anthony Scaramucci Is The Man Trump And America Need It’s better that we know what the president genuinely thinks, not what his comms team thinks is the best message.By David Marcus
July 31, 2017 When President Trump hired Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director, he was sending a very clear message about the future of his administration. When a week later he leaned into the mic and told Reince Priebus, “You’re fired,” he doubled down on that message. In short, the president is saying: I got elected doing things my way and ignoring you GOP blowhards, and that isn’t going to change.
In the long run, that decision will be good for Trump and for the American people. The reason everyone from Pennsylvania Avenue to Main Street should celebrate this move is that it finally puts the cards on the table. Throughout the campaign and even after it, we had GOP officials predicting that Trump could be guided, molded into a responsible Republican president. It has never been true, and we are all better off for finally realizing it.
Let’s look at four of the respectable Republicans who assured us Trump was controllable. Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, and Priebus all smiled and laughed away Trump’s irregular style while predicting he would settle down. Gingrich has been smart enough to stay out of the administration, Christie was uninvited, Sessions has been dragged over the president’s hot Twitter coals, and Priebus was driven away from the presidential motorcade in a black SUV. They were, in a word the president says in his own unique style, “wrong.”
No Serious Person Wants the JobI asked Ryan Williams, former spokesman for governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, why seasoned GOP communications people don’t want to work for this White House. His answer was “Everything.” He went on to say, “If the principal won’t stay on message, nothing works. He [Trump] has shown no indication he’s willing to listen, he steps all over message weeks, and he treats his staff like garbage.”
Williams said Trump asks his communications people to go out and say things that are patently false, such as the idea that maybe he won the popular vote, and that people who want to work in this field for the next 30 years can’t have those kinds of untruths following them around. It’s a sobering account, and one that shows, as Williams agrees, that Scaramucci is in a unique to position to give the president what he wants.
According to Williams, Scaramucci was around the Romney campaign as a donor who wanted the spotlight and was used on CNBC and Fox News. At that time he wasn’t taken very seriously. But as a successful businessman, who along with generals and family members are the only people Trump seems to respect, Scaramucci is in a better position than a communications professional to be the president’s spokesperson.
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