Posted on 07/31/2017 11:44:17 AM PDT by abb
WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff.
The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci, who had boasted about reporting directly to the president not the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, came at Mr. Kelly’s request, the people said. Mr. Kelly made clear to members of the White House staff at a meeting Monday morning that he is in charge.
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Agree. Every week brings a new train wreck.
You are pathetic and clearly not very well informed
Your post clearly indicates your gross ignorance
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Good information.
Thank you for your comment. It appears that there are only a few of us who are concerned with the chaos.
Take care.
>>But in a dysfunctional organization where people are leaking things to promote their own agenda, and to engage in intra-staff turfwars, you may very well need someone to come in and “end that “sh*t.”
(You’re actually benefitting from something I normally charge a lot for!)
Your statement, in reality, couldn’t be more wrong. Does a drunk admit he’s a drunk when you first ask him? How about you? Are you going to be INSTANTLY persuaded by this post suggesting you are wrong? Of course not to both.
You can’t seriously believe that people in the WH with an ego the size of Alaska are going to just respond, “OK, since you said you were in charge, I’ll behave. No problem. All you had to do was get in my face. Was that so hard??”
Going into an organization, functioning or not, and being confrontational right off the bat is asking for not only trouble but disaster. Go back to you above — when you first read the first or second sentence I wrote, did you IMMEDIATELY think, “hey, this 1L guy knows what he’s talking about; man, telling me I was wrong is just the ticket. I’ll straighten up and go his way...?”
Hell no. You started thinking about how you were going to respond. THAT (or something similar) is how people react to someone coming in and “laying down the law,” so to speak. Use whatever trite phrase you want. They all fail. It took me a long time to learn this and when I adjusted my behavior in these sorts of pursuits, I got results that I was amazed with. I have clients who have had the same experience.
You didn’t answer the question I posed the other person: if someone gets in your face how are you going to respond? How do you think the WH staff is going to respond? If they’re leaking NOW they don’t have Trump’s best interests in mind. What makes you think a “I’m in charge” General is going to make them change that? Also, if this guy is “well known” by the “major players,” as you suggest, what is the point of the “I’m in charge” comment? (Again, IF it was reported accurately).
The General can better “end that shit” in the way I described above — by getting to know the staff as well as possible. Save the speeches for your kids.
>>Whiskied up is my guess<<
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Or something that goes up the nose. The manic behavior was certainly symptomatic. Trump wouldn’t put up with that sort of thing.
Yeah, I wanted to believe that his election was the hard part, and that he’d go in there after that and just blow everything away, but that was obviously just the initial endorphins talking. This election, if nothing else, exposed for all to see the depravity of the Republican side of Washington. Knowing that, I can imagine learning the ropes in D.C. is 1000x harder than learning the ropes in a maximum security prison.
I don’t subscribe to the theories that everything is part of a masterful scheme. Trump probably sees this like a startup with the ugliest roadblocks ever. Anyone who thinks their startup is going to breeze through to success is insane. Working out all the kinks and narrow scrapes and disasters is part of the process towards creating a stable, functioning entity.
I think (hope) that’s what he’s doing, and he’s just doing it quickly, because, as a businessman, he knows what BS not to string along. Will it be sorted out within a year? I doubt it at this point, but if he can get everything settled out in his inner sphere soon enough, I think he’ll start to have more successes. Man, oh man, though, does he have every freaking thing working against him in that cesspool.
You would not have made through the military....
No job enhancer with Trump, to be heard in an alcohol or substance induced rant with a CNN reporter.
Maybe this is just Mooch after 5:00, but it was such a manic thing, as you said, that I suspected drinks at least, were probably involved.
I'm just pleased that the Trump admin has exceeded my expectations despite the mooch's short tenure. Remember that our choices were a very entertaining admin, or a gloom and doom admin with socialism. A "serious" conservative admin was not an option, ever, and the spiral into socialism can at best be slowed, not stopped. Enjoying the show...
Trump’s legacy may very well wind up being that of a sacrificial lamb.
If Trump doesn't get serious he will surely lose to Hillary. In the end there is socialism (Hillary) or socialism-lite (McCain). Trump follows the law and can only do so much.
Thanks for the free advice, but I've been senior enough in enough organizations, both within and outside a the military, to have a pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't.
I would agree that words alone are almost never enough to achieve rapid changes in conduct in a dysfunctional organization. General Kelly would agree with that as well- words are rarely enough. Just ask Joe Dowdy. And for that matter, Anthony Scaramucci.
If Anthony Scaramucci's fate isn't enough to get the attention of others on the staff, then you keep firing the problem people until the problem people have either 1) been replaced, or 2) figured out they need to change their behaviors. Frankly, in those situations, the fewer words said, the better. Announce the standards, fire anyone who doesn't comply.
Personally, I've never had to do more than two firings before the listening skills of those remaining improve remarkably. Generally, one is enough. Knowing General Kelly's people skills, I think the firing of Mooch may do the trick. If not, there are plenty of well-qualified people to replace these. These are not unique skill sets.
The General can better “end that shit” in the way I described above — by getting to know the staff as well as possible. Save the speeches for your kids.
"Getting to know" people takes time this Administration does not have. Announce the way things will be, fire anyone who objects, then move forward with those willing to put their own agendas aside and all pull in the same direction.
As for the speeches...all you need is the first one.
okay that was short.
>>Stupid Kelly. I am telling you that this is a huge mistake. Scaramucci has been a godsend for the White House. Oh well I guess they will just fall all over themselves letting the press win. No fighters but trump now.
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Scarmucci was exactly what was needed. A rough and tough street fighter to take down the DC elitists. He represented a REAL fight. Now it’s just theatre.
Losing his family might explain his language, but it does not excuse it.
My SO just informed me that Kelly said that AS needed to be gone by Friday, but Trump said it could happen sooner than that.
A General is supposed to be an officer and a gentleman. As Commander in Chief, Trump should be an officer and a gentleman. Someone accusing someone of being a paranoid schizophrenic is certainly neither. Kelly had no intentions of putting up with that, not to mention AS’s brag that he had direct access to President, and could bypass Kelly.
>>Although I loved his no BS approach, he was a bit raunchy.
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Nah. This reminds me of the old commercial for Pollener All Fruit. The DC elitists are the pinky-up Pollener All Fruit, and Scarmucci is the JELLY.
Mooch was prepared to go the distance and take out all the in house traitors.
I wonder why the MSM seems to love Kelly.
Boy, Trump is getting ride of more of his people than the Seattle Mariners general manager changes players. He has made like 75 personnel moves the past two years. He has canned off almost all of his original people.
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