Analysis The Scaramucci fiasco shows that the White House will never escape chaos
With Anthony Scaramucci's shockingly quick exit as White House communications director after John R. Kelly's installation as chief of staff, there will be a temptation to believe this could be a course-correction for the White House — or even the mythical “pivot.”
Everyone should resist the temptation. And we should be skeptical that it represents much more than President Trump's chaotic management style yielding yet another conflicting signal about what he wants his White House and his presidency to be.
Yes, Trump has picked arguably the first disciplinarian, hard-truth-telling chief adviser of his entire two years in the national political spotlight. And yes, Kelly appears to have immediately asserted some order by getting rid of Scaramucci, who engaged in an expletive-ridden tirade against his new White House colleagues last week.
But let's keep this in context.
Just seven days before Trump hired this retired Marine general to reportedly come in and right the ship with military precision and discipline, he hired the antithesis of all that: Scaramucci. Scaramucci was well-known as a brash, unapologetic Trump defender with an unpredictable streak. The “Trump's Mini Me” label stuck for a reason. So if Trump wanted to pivot to presidentiality Friday, he apparently wanted to pivot to anarchy the Friday before.
And perhaps even more illustrative, Trump appeared to applaud Scaramucci's scorched-Earth tactics and vulgarity just a day before hiring Kelly. When Scaramucci called into CNN on Thursday morning to suggest that then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was a leaker, he did so immediately after speaking with Trump, who he said authorized the reality-TV-esque last-minute call-in.
“I just spent about 15 minutes on the phone talking with the president of the United States who has given me his full support and his full blessing,” Scaramucci assured.
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