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Spicer OUT ...

Beelzebuddy said:
So who gets the job now? Do they have to explicitly find someone, or will Bernie's niece from a mirror universe, Sarah Sanders, inherit the post?
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She's been announced and applauded by the press corps.
 
This Scaramucci guy is slick. He totally breezes over Trump's history of lying with non-answers. He's using framing like Trump's side is "closer to the truth than you guys realize". Polls are moving targets, polls are wrong, blah blah blah.

He diverts past existing facts to what he will do rather than addressing the known reality. He claims he and Priebus have been great friends for years. Funny there are no images of them together on a Google search. You'd think there'd be a couple. Same with the Bannon rumors, Scaramucci deflects to "team players".
 
Beelzebuddy said:
I'll put two quatloos on Sessions. Trump is already disappointed Sessions isn't lining up to fall on his sword. Reince hasn't been embarrassing enough.
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I wonder about the total turnover in the White House over the last 6 months. Jut how many people who just couldn't take the insanity. I'm including interns and lower level staff. People you never hear about.
 
acbytesla said:
I wonder about the total turnover in the White House over the last 6 months. Jut how many people who just couldn't take the insanity. I'm including interns and lower level staff. People you never hear about.
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Interns are by definition short-term employees, maybe a college semester or a year. They might hope to get real jobs, but interns as such aren't supposed to hang around.

Lower-level employees probably have pretty well defined jobs -- answering phones, responding to correspondence, etc. -- that don't change much no matter who the department head is. For a 20-something, working at any White House is probably more exciting than anything else they could do. And, after all, they are there in the first place because they are Trump supporters who applied for their jobs. The household staff carries over from one administration to the next, but the office staff are all Trump hires.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Trumpian move, screw up, blame your staff. Tell Spicer to go out there and tell lies about the inaugural crowd then blame Spicer because people accused him of lying....

Nope, as I type Dana Bash says she talked to Spicer and he resigned over the appointment of the new communications director, Scaramucci. The details are a tad confusing.
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Here's the question: what is Spicer's objection to Scaramucci? Is it that he is too crazy? Or too sane?

As Dennis Miller once asked, "What the **** do you have to do to get kicked out of Guns and Roses?"
 
pgwenthold said:
Here's the question: what is Spicer's objection to Scaramucci? Is it that he is too crazy? Or too sane?
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From what I've read so far, Scaramucci is entirely without qualifications for the position, but I guess this White House can't have enough money shufflers on staff.

It's possible that the entire reason this administration exists is to provide CV enhancement for family and friends.
 
Bob001 said:
They feel that the fact that he has had no experience in public communications or government is a disqualification.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary-240802
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Being totally unprepared and unknowledgeable about your role is par for the course in this administration. Hell Rick Perry probably didn't know until he got the job that he would be in charge of the preparedness of our nuclear arsenal.

Why is this position different from all the other ones we put people do don't have the faintest idea how to do their job and often opposed to the very idea of doing the job in the first place?
 
ponderingturtle said:
Being totally unprepared and unknowledgeable about your role is par for the course in this administration. Hell Rick Perry probably didn't know until he got the job that he would be in charge of the preparedness of our nuclear arsenal.

Why is this position different from all the other ones we put people do don't have the faintest idea how to do their job and often opposed to the very idea of doing the job in the first place?
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True, though this might be a perfect choice: someone without any competence in communicating running communications for a corrupt administration that doesn't want the public to be well informed. The dumber the public, the better for the beast.
 
Bob001 said:
They feel that the fact that he has had no experience in public communications or government is a disqualification.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary-240802
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But jeez, since when is that new? Or is it just that now Spicer has to deal with it that it has gone too far? I mean, Clovis just got nominated for a position that US Code says needs to be staffed by a scientist, and he isn't. This is SOP for this administration, to put people who are completely unqualified for the job.

I wish he had backbone earlier.
 
Babbylonian said:
True, though this might be a perfect choice: someone without any competence in communicating running communications for a corrupt administration that doesn't want the public to be well informed. The dumber the public, the better for the beast.
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He sounds perfect for this administration then. I mean the only real requirement is a personal loyalty to the president far greater than any ethical or moral qualm.
 
TheL8Elvis said:
I may be making this up, but I didn't think you could make federal employees sign an NDA ?
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Trump had his entire transition team sign NDAs, with preventing the writing of tell-all books specifically cited as one of the reasons. There have definitely been questions since then regarding whether they are enforceable.
 
Armitage72 said:
Trump had his entire transition team sign NDAs, with preventing the writing of tell-all books specifically cited as one of the reasons. There have definitely been questions since then regarding whether they are enforceable.
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As his transition team, they would have been his private staff. But I doubt an NDA would be enforceable against a federal employee, although I understand federal contractors are routinely required to sign NDAs regarding proprietary information, secrets, etc.
 
I think Spicer got fired because he was too easy to make fun of and we all know Trump can't take a joke , or doesn't want a person around that makes him look like a joke. This new person will probably be just one of many in a long line of replacements.
 
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