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Merged Mooch out!

P.J. Denyer said:
That has to be a new record. Who says this administration isn't #1?
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Tie. Jack Koehler was Reagan's Communications Director for only 11 days. He was asked to resign after the discovery he was part of a Nazi youth group.
 
Seems like every few days there's a high level firing lately.

Does anybody think that maybe Trump hasn't realised that he isn't doing The Apprentice any more?
 
P.J. Denyer said:
That has to be a new record. Who says this administration isn't #1?
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Do you only look at US cases? We had a couple of short-lived junior ministers in the Netherlands.

In 1982, journalist and wannabe-politician Charles Schwietert was appointed junior minister for Defence. Quickly, it turned out he had lied on his resume: he had claimed to have a (Dutch equivalent) of an MA title, while he only had briefly studied at a US university without getting a degree. He also claimed to have been a lieutenant, while actually only attaining the rank of corporal. After three days, he tendered his resignation to the Queen.

In 2002, Suriname-born TV presenter and wannabe-politician Philomena Bijlhout was appointed junior minister for Social Affairs. She had emphatically said she had not been a member of Desi Bouterse's militia after the 1982 "December Murders" which marked the begin of Bouterse's unabashed dictatorship. She literally said "You won't find a photo of Philomena in uniform". The same night of her appointment, a commercial TV station showed a photo of her, in uniform, from 1983. She tendered her resignation to the Queen the same night; she had been a minister for six hours.

ETA: of course, it depends how you count. The Mooch was fired 15 days before he would come into office...
 
a_unique_person said:
I think he just likes firing people.
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Not sure Trump fired anybody. Spicer was nauseated into retreat; Priebus bullied. And Mooch was Kelly's firing.

I thought Trump is the man who stabs his firings into the front of the victims - but there is no word here that he did the actual firing.
 
Loss Leader said:
On the one hand, I'm happy that such an obvious lunatic has lost the ear of the president. On the other hand, I'm sad that Gen. Kelly may actually succeed in bringing order to what otherwise would be a staggeringly ineffective White House.
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I doubt the General will succeed for any prolonged period of time. It will be a few weeks until Kelly is robbed of all of his integrity in order to please Trump, or the General will resign instead.
 
Garrison said:
Oh come on, from the campaign to the nomination to the election to the inauguration to now, how many times have we heard the idea that things will somehow normalize with Trump. The source of the chaos and ineptitude is still firmly ensconced in the Oval Office. If Kelly actually tries to rein in Trump he'll follow the 'Mooch' out of the White House soon enough.
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I would bet on this, but Trump has been surprisingly difficult to predict. I'd much rather have him nuts and getting nothing done than well-ordered and working towards his insanely anti-American (pro-rich people) agenda.
 
Scaramuccia (literally "little skirmisher"), also known as ScaramoucheWP or Scaramouch, is a stock clown character of the Italian commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts). The role combined characteristics of the zanni (servant) and the Capitano (masked henchman). Usually attired in black Spanish dress and burlesquing a don, he was often beaten by Harlequin for his boasting and cowardice.
 
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thaiboxerken said:
I doubt the General will succeed for any prolonged period of time. It will be a few weeks until Kelly is robbed of all of his integrity in order to please Trump, or the General will resign instead.
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I keep imagining the loyal minions, eating up the easy lies and the putrid scraps of prejudice dressed up as fact, sure that all opposition is disloyalty and fake news, filing in only to find that it's worse than even their foes dared to fear. And yet there's always another fool to fill the space.

I'm reminded of Star Wars and the evil emperor who strangles his henchmen when they fail. And yet, here comes another henchman, neck stuck out and ready to have a go. Hans Ironfoot hoping just this once that the riddle will be simple, the swarms of little people in The Satanic Verses, loyally parading up to "The Imam grown monstrous, lying in the palace forecourt with his mouth yawning open at the gates; as the people march through the gates he swallows them whole."
 
Loss Leader said:
I would bet on this, but Trump has been surprisingly difficult to predict. I'd much rather have him nuts and getting nothing done than well-ordered and working towards his insanely anti-American (pro-rich people) agenda.
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I think Kelly just postpones the inevitable, a complete implosion of the administration. The only thing worse than this chaos could be Trump actually governing.
 
The real reason was that he just couldn't keep up the Italian-mobster-stereotype duck lips all day. Nobody can.
 
Delvo said:
The real reason was that he just couldn't keep up the Italian-mobster-stereotype duck lips all day. Nobody can.
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I was trying to figure out which animal he reminded me of, then it hit me.
The velociraptor from Jurassic Park.
 
Loss Leader said:
On the one hand, I'm happy that such an obvious lunatic has lost the ear of the president. On the other hand, I'm sad that Gen. Kelly may actually succeed in bringing order to what otherwise would be a staggeringly ineffective White House.
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Better ineffective than actively destroying the country!!!!!
 
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