Sean Spicer angrily resigns, Reince Priebus about to resign, as Donald Trump’s fake White House collapses
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has abruptly and angrily resigned, after Fox News talking head Anthony Scaramucci was hired as his new boss without any warning. The fallout is now playing out swiftly, with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said to be furious and the next to resign, as the Donald Trump administration continues to collapse in real time today – and the fallout may just be getting started.
Spicer is publicly making nice on his way out the door, tweeting that “It’s been an honor & a privilege” (link). But behind the scenes, things are a different story. Spicer told Donald Trump that hiring Anthony Scaramucci to be the new White House Communications Director would be a “major mistake” according to the New York Times (link), and then he resigned in protest when Trump hired him anyway. The move isn’t sitting well with some other people in the administration. MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid stated that according to one of her Republican sources, “Priebus is next” to resign.
Meanwhile Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been promoted to take Sean Spicer’s place as Press Secretary, a job she’d largely already been doing for months in terms of handling press briefings. This despite the fact that she’s been consistently subpar as a briefer, and arguably even more inept at it than Spicer was. So who is Anthony Scaramucci? It appears Donald Trump hired him on the basis of his friendship with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Or perhaps Trump has become so addled that he thinks Scaramucci is the “will you do the fandango” character from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
Some have posited that Donald Trump may be making these moves today to try to stir up controversy, in the hope of distracting from his exploding Russia scandal and his disastrous recent New York Times interview. However, if that’s the case, then Trump has only further served to underline that his White House is in full collapse.
