President Donald Trump’s former 57-year-old Communication Director Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted from July 21, 2017 to July 31, 2017, epitomizes the kind of personnel failures that destroyed the Trump presidency. From his days on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” Trump prided himself on picking winners, famously telling the contestants that didn’t work out, “You’re Fired.” Well Trump fired a lot of folks in his Cabinet and administration for not working out. Scarmucci was the perfect example of a multimillionaire imposter, who made a lot of cash at Goldman Sachs then his own private equity fund SkyBridge Capital, but knew nothing about strategic communications. Like many of Trump’s White House employees, they were all hungry for the lights-and-cameras but they knew next-to-nothing about the jobs assigned. When you pick people like Scaramucci, you know Trump was in trouble.
Once Scarmucci was bounced out of theWhite House in record time, he became of favorite of the Trump resistance in all the Trump-hating media, appearing regularly to opine about Trump, as if he had any insights. What Scramucci had was all the money in the world to get in front of cameras bashing Trump, showing zero class for someone who once enjoyed Trump’s confidence. Trump’s former White House employees all turned against him, seduced by the attention given to them by the Trump-hating media outlets. “I personally would like to see him get out politics and back to business,” Scaramucci told Yahoo Finance Live. Of all the Internet news sites, none was against Trump more than Yahoo, running 24/7, non-stop content slamming his presidency, much like the HuffPost. Scaramucci would like to see Trump back to his business, a fitting way to keep getting his revenge.
When it came to Trump’s early Cabinet, it went from bad to worse in short order, picking Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his National Security Director. Flynn lasted from Jan. 22, 2017 to Feb. 13, 2004, embarrassing Trump with his doofus interview with the FBI at the White House Jan. 24, 2017, only four days after Trump took office. While Flynn was set up by former FBI Director James Comey, he should have known better, but showed he was a real novice. Trump’s next big mistake was picking 68-year-old former Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, someone known for oil-and-gas deals but nothing else. Tillerson did better than Flynn, lasting from Feb. 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, when Trump finally got it right picking 56-year-old Mike Pompeo to replace him. But when you look at Trump’s coup de grace, the worst pick of all, he picked 74-year-old Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) as Attorney General.
Session’s Senate confirmation went poorly, forcing him to recuse himself from Trump’s allege Russian collusion investigation. Sessions failed to admit he has spoke with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak during the transition period, much the same as Flynn. But Sessions’ recusal proved disastrous for Trump, allowing his Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. Had Sessions refused to recuse himself, he could have stopped the Russian hoax investigation, something that dogged Trump for at least three years. Trump’s bad decision was his undoing, not to mention picking 70-year-old four star Gen. Jim Mattis and Defense Secretary [Jan. 20, 2017 – Jan. 1, 2019]. Mattis and Trump butted heads, especially when it came past Obama-era Mideast policy. Trump promised to end former President Barack Obama’s proxy war in Syria.
Things went from bad to worse with Mattis, ending badly with Mattis, after his departure Jan. 1, 2019, when Mattis, like Scaramucci, joined the anti-Trump forces, ripping Trump at every possible chance. Trump thought he made the right move picking 70-year-old Gen. John Kelly as Chief of Staff, serving from July 31, 2017 to Jan. 2, 2019. Like other Cabinet picks, Kelly turned on Trump, especially after he was dumped, more related to Kelly’s inability to accept Trump’s brusque management style. Kelly couldn’t play a subordinate role, often butting heads, like others, with Trump. Personnel problems plagued the Trump presidency, picking the most incompetent group subordinates imaginable in the run up to the 2020 election. Scaramucci’s 32-year-old replacement as Communication Director Hope Hicks [Aug. 15, 2017 to March 28, 2018] then Counselor to the President, proved Trump’s undoing.
Hicks couldn’t deal with the avalanche of bad publicity mounting because of the Covid-19 crisis, exploited by Democrats because Hicks did little or nothing to defend Trump. Democrats succeeded in painting Trump as an incompetent boob when it came to managing the Covid-19 crisis, then watching the economy eventually crash. One of the great foils to Trump’s reelection was 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, the grandfatherly head of the National Institute of Health’s Allergy and Infectious Disease. Trump couldn’t stop Democrats from exploiting Fauci to make Trump look like an idiot managing the Covid-19 crisis. Fauci hid behind his “scientist” cloak to assail Trump politically through the 2020 campaign. All the president’s men and women, one way or another, stabbed Trump in the back. Scaramucci has zero insights into Trump, only an unquenchable thirst for media attention.
