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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16053694/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-explained
July 28, 2017
With his ouster as White House communications director Monday, Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure as a character on the Donald Trump Show will, in the end, be remembered as an impactful and memorable — but brief — guest appearance.
“The Mooch” arrived on the scene with great fanfare just 10 days ago. His hiring spurred press secretary Sean Spicer to announce his resignation. His profane, bizarre interview with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza quickly went viral. He swore to oust his enemy Reince Priebus from the chief of staff post, and successfully did so.
But this proved to be his own undoing. Trump’s pick to replace Priebus as chief of staff, John Kelly, was distinctly unimpressed by Scaramucci, who seemed both remarkably underqualified and remarkably incompetent. So on his very first day as chief, Kelly told Scaramucci that he was done.
Scaramucci was a bizarre choice for communications director from the get-go. On the one hand, he had no experience in government and little in the way of meaningful ties to Republican Party politics. He also wasn’t a populist or in any way affiliated with the ideological movement — nativist, protectionist, flirting with white nationalism, skeptical of free market dogma — that once appeared to be coalescing around the unlikely figure of an heir to a New York real estate fortune. He’s not even related to Donald Trump. And he certainly wasn’t qualified in any conventional sense for the communications gig.
On the other hand, he very much is smug, confident, and comfortable on television. He’s also in his early 50s, reasonably handsome, and genuinely a self-made man rather than someone who got by on loans from daddy. When Trump looks in the mirror, he probably sees someone like Scaramucci — the Mooch — who even has a cool nickname and whose SALT Conference series did a better job of transmogrifying money into respectability than anything Trump ever pulled off.