Steve Bannon says Paul Ryan's a limp dick. The Mooch says Bannon sucks his own cock. These Trump guys are obsessed with each other's penises
IF it wasn't happening in the White House this would be funny. The cast of no class characters, the lying, cheating, leaking, backstabbing, bullying by twitter, is all so childish and yet this is the drumpf/trump-pence administration. It is no wonder drumpf/trump-pence get along so well with sleazy little anthony scaramucci, the new WH communications director and Not My pres drumpf/trump and NOT MY vp pence speak the same language. Here's the latest drama, from +NPR .....
White House Communications Director Calls Chief Of Staff 'A Paranoiac' And Much Worse
July 27, 201710:08 AM ET
Warning: This post contains some very graphic language (I filled in the blanks, NPR had "s*** my own c***" because I want to make it very clear to the Christian right wing what they elected. NPR did include "fucking" in their print version of this story).
Updated at 6:40 p.m. ET
The newly installed Trump White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, unloaded on the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and adviser Steve Bannon with some harsh language that would make a sailor blush.
In the interview, posted Thursday, with New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, Scaramucci called Priebus "a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac."
Turning his attention to Bannon, Scaramucci said he had no interest in media attention. "I'm not Steve Bannon; I'm not trying to suck my own cock," Scaramucci said. "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the president. I'm here to serve the country."
On Thursday evening, Scaramucci followed up on Twitter, saying he would "refrain" from using such language.
I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda. #MAGA
Scaramucci was initially set off by a report in Politico that indicates he has assets worth as much as $85 million and that he took a $5 million salary from SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund he founded, in the first half of the year.
Scaramucci tweeted Wednesday night suggesting that reporting the financial disclosure information was "a felony" and saying that he will contact the FBI.
The tweet has since been deleted.
On Thursday morning, Scaramucci called into CNN and all but accused Priebus of deliberately leaking the report.
"If Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that," Scaramucci said. "Let me tell you something about myself — I am a straight shooter, and I'll go right to the heart of the matter."
However, the financial disclosure form is a public document, which the Politico reporter who obtained it said she retrieved through normal channels.
Wow, sorry I slept through all the fun! FWIW, Mr @Scaramucci's Form 278e is publicly available from ExIm. Just ask. politico.com/story/2017/07/…
The Justice Department, meanwhile, says it is taking leaks seriously. DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement, "We have seen an astonishing increase in the number of leaks of classified national security information in recent months. We agree with Anthony that these staggering number of leaks are undermining the ability of our government to function and to protect this country. Like the Attorney General has said, 'whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail,' and we will aggressively pursue leak cases wherever they may lead."
The increasingly nasty contretemps playing out in the West Wing between Scaramucci and Priebus seems to have started when Priebus reportedly objected to Trump's hiring of the financier.
Priebus ally Sean Spicer, who was pulling double duty as communications director and press secretary, quit when Scaramucci was named to the job.
Scaramucci acknowledged to CNN that he and Priebus "have had odds. We've had differences."
Referring to his remarks last week that he and Priebus were like brothers, he elaborated.
"Some brothers are like Cain and Abel," he said. "Other brothers can fight with each other and get along. I don't know if this is reparable or not. That will be up to the president."
Of course, as every Sunday school graduate knows, in the Bible, Cain murdered Abel.
BySETH MILLSTEIN 27 JUL 17
On Thursday, new White House Communications Director Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci gave a striking interview, if you want to call it that, with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza. According to Lizza, Scaramucci pledged to fire "everyone in the [White House] comms team" in an attempt to flush out leakers, referred to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus as a "f--king paranoid schizophrenic," and accused top a top White House adviser of trying to perform fellatio on himself. Like clockwork, memes and jokes about Scaramucci's interview surfaced on Twitter later that same day.
Scaramucci, a former investment banker, said a lot of things in that interview that you don't normally hear top White House officials saying. He distanced himself from another high-profile White House adviser, telling Lizza, "I’m not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own c--k." He added that he'd like to "f--king kill all the leakers" in the White House, and cryptically suggested that one or more of those leakers had committed a felony.
"I've gotta start tweeting some s--t to make this guy crazy," Scaramucci said shortly before ending the interview. It was unclear to whom he was referring.
Needless to say, it's not every day that you hear a top government official speak with such, um, candor. The Twitter memes and jokes quickly followed.
Everyone's Initial Reaction
It's not just one thing he said or didn't say. It's the entire interview.
Scaramucci's End Game
Scaramucci and Preibus reportedly don't like each other very much, a report seemingly confirmed in this interview when Scaramucci referred to his colleague as "schizophrenic" and accused him of illegally leaking documents to the press.
A Little Perspective
An Eye On Saturday Night Live
You should always be careful what you wish for, however.
Why Does He Look So Familiar?
Because you've seen Goodfellas, that's why.
A Fellow Republican Reacts
When you've lost the Ted Cruz wing of the party...
The Kid-Friendly Version
Sadly, audio of the interview hasn't been released, so this will probably never happen.
How Did We Get Here?
Incidentally, Preibus is actually a member of the Delta Chi fraternity.
It's A Freudian Thing
Yup, Bannon did say that about the speaker of the House.
The Royal "Mooch"
"The Mooch showed up a week ago," Scaramucci said of himself while explaining his efforts to clean up shop.
The One Strange Thing
Are we sure @RyanLizza quotes aren't fake news?
Suspicious that Mooch talked that long w/o mentioning how he went to Harvard Law School
Scaramucci did indeed go to Harvard Law, and he isn't afraid to remind people.
The Mooch Effect
Wholly understandable.
We're Just Getting Started
Wait until he's officially a White House employee!
After the interview was published, Scaramucci acknowledged on Twitter that he "sometimes use[s] colorful language."
Trump Chief Of Staff Priebus Is Out — In Biggest White House Staff Shake-Up Yet
July 28, 20175:01 PM ET
He rose from relative state-party obscurity and reached an unlikely pinnacle as the man responsible for the agenda of the president of the United States.
Now, Reince Priebus is out of that job as White House chief of staff in the most significant shake-up of the rocky Trump presidency.
President Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has been named as Priebus' replacement.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, Priebus' team supplanted a thin Trump campaign with money and staff to help Trump win the presidency. That brought Trump and Priebus close, but it was never a natural fit — the mild-mannered, careful former Wisconsin Republican Party leader with the Midwestern accent, once critically described as the "nebbish's nebbish," and the flashy, cavalier New York billionaire.
Priebus' exit indicates the full decline in the White House of the RNC-led Washington wing. Priebus was the last of the high-profile RNC staffers to exit the West Wing. Months ago, Priebus' deputy, Katie Walsh — a former RNC chief of staff, who was accused of being a leaker by rivals inside the White House — left to work on an outside PAC supporting Trump. Then it was Sean Spicer, the beleaguered press secretary doubling as communications director, who left the day Trump brought on board New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
Priebus' tenure lasted just seven months, an unusually short stint for a president's first chief of staff.
Priebus and "The Mooch"
Despite lauding Priebus in his first appearance in the White House briefing room, Scaramucci days later revealed simmering tensions with the then-chief of staff. Those tensions burst wide open into public view Thursday when it was revealed that Scaramucci, who refers to himself as "The Mooch," called a reporter and unloaded on Priebus.
"Reince is ... a paranoiac," Scaramucci told The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza. Scaramucci was annoyed, thinking his financial disclosure was leaked to the media. It turns out, a Politico reporter obtained it through a public-information request.
Fearful of an unscheduled meeting or phone call or even a rogue tweet at the thumbs of the president, Priebus made it a point of keeping close by Trump's side. But there were signs that Priebus was, at times, out of the loop, like when Trump decided to hire Scaramucci. Both Priebus and senior adviser Steve Bannon reportedly objected strenuously to the move.
The fact that Priebus is the one who is out certainly lends credence to the idea that the New York wing, which believes in letting Trump be Trump, is ascendant in the White House.
Embracing the tornado
As chairman of the RNC, Priebus had the unenviable role of trying to keep the roof on the Republican Party house with Trump, an outsider tornado, spiraling toward it.
Priebus tried to contain the tornado, getting Trump to agree to a pledge not to run third-party in the fall, if he lost the nomination. But the tornado of Trump only got stronger, and no amount of plywood and nails would keep the house in order.
Instead, Priebus opened the doors and arguably did more than anyone else in the party to embrace the coming force.
That didn't mean he wasn't critical.
"No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever," Priebus said in October when the Access Hollywood video was revealed. Trump was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women "by the p****," because "when you're a star, they let you do anything."
But Priebus had to temper his criticisms throughout the campaign, so he didn't suffer Trump's wrath — and the party didn't implode. During the general-election campaign, Priebus' RNC wound up supplementing Trump's skeleton campaign with millions of dollars in resources and hundreds of field workers in key states.
Loss of an ally
Priebus wound up winning over Trump. Perhaps it was a calculated decision to get support from someone with ties to a crucial state. Trump needed Priebus, a member of the so-called "Cheesehead Mafia." Priebus is close with House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite. (Ryan is actually Priebus' congressman.)
Why make an enemy of Priebus, when he could be a critical ally, as Trump tried to get his agenda passed? But the wheels have been anything but greased. Priebus' exit comes a day after Republicans' health care efforts were sunk in Congress, at least for now.
A tax overhaul hasn't materialized, despite pledges of addressing it by the summer. And a conversation on infrastructure is only talk of the future.
A chief of staff traditionally is the gatekeeper for the president, but despite his best efforts, Priebus struggled to be that.
Trump has veered off-message in tweets, his handling of the Russia investigation, the firing James Comey as FBI director (arguably his most high-profile political miscue) and with his public shaming of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, which turned many congressional Republicans on the president.
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