The Beltway culture created Anthony Scaramucci, and deserves him
If you didn’t cringe a little reading about Anthony Scaramucci’s phone call to Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker, I don’t know about you. Scaramucci’s ham-handed, foul-mouthed rant – all on the record to a journalist who was going to report every word of it – makes it harder than it already is to think there is any decorum left in the Trump White House.
What we have in Donald Trump and Anthony Scaramucci are the most crude, unprofessional, downright nasty people . . . fighting for what’s right
I especially face-palmed Scaramucci’s apparent belief that he could persuade Lizza to give up a source out of some sense of duty to the country. Ryan Lizza is a left-wing writer for a left-wing publication, which cares about nothing more than destroying the Trump presidency. He would sooner cut off his own right arm than lift a finger to stop White House leaks.
White House leaks are his lifeblood. I’ve been on my own share of calls from foul-mouthed people who thought they could intimidate me into doing something I had no intention of doing. You just shake your head and think to yourself, “Does this guy really think what he’s doing is going to work?”
And yet, as absurd as this whole spectacle is, the Beltway crowd is 100 percent responsible for the fact that it’s happening. If Scaramucci runs roughshod over the entire city, firing people left and right, and scaring the bejeezus out of everyone, it will be precisely because of the way Washington has operated for far too long. It was inevitable that we would one day elect a president who wasn’t going to put up with it, and if his team wouldn’t respect that, would turn loose a bull in a china shop like Anthony Scaramucci to deal with it.
What we have in Donald Trump and Anthony Scaramucci are the most crude, unprofessional, downright nasty people . . . fighting for what’s right. And the polished, refined, oh-so-proper veterans of the Beltway scene are resisting what’s right with everything they’ve got.
The Washington leak culture is every bit the abomination Trump believes it to be
The Washington leak culture is every bit the abomination Trump believes it to be. He has a hard time being taken seriously in the press because they’re the ones who benefit from the leaks, but he’s absolutely correct.
This is one example of how it’s proving beneficial to have elected a CEO from the private sector. If you work for any company in the world and the boss tells the staff that certain information is not to be shared with the outside world accept through approved channels, after which someone blabs it to the news media, that someone will be rooted out and fired so fast he won’t even have time to clean out his desk. If a chief executive can’t trust his own team to respect information they’re trusted with, he can’t operate. Pure and simple.
What Donald Trump has found himself with is a staff that can’t be trusted to do what they’re supposed to do. They’re not supposed to leak? They don’t care. They leak anyway. “Don’t use my name because I’m not supposed to be talking to you.”
No. You’re not. And you assured your boss that he could trust you and that you would not engage in such talking. But you lied.
And this sort of thing is par for the course in Washington D.C. No one can be trusted. Everyone claims not to leak, then leaks, then lies about it. The media, which is obviously delighted by the prevalence of such behavior, is protecting dishonest people while attaching heroic-sounding descriptions like “whistleblower,” when in fact these people are simply traitors – not in the sense of legal treason, but in the sense that you’re going behind the back of the person you’re supposed to work for and knifing him, all the while collecting your paycheck and putting on a show of being loyal.
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When Trump talks about wanting loyalty, this is what he’s talking about
When Trump talks about wanting loyalty, this is what he’s talking about. He wants people who work for him to be trustworthy, and to avoid the kind of behavior that amounts to sabotage of the boss. That is not too much to ask, no matter how much the Beltway scoffs at notions like loyalty and trustworthiness.
So into this rat’s nest comes Anthony Scaramucci, who brings neither couth nor decorum. He is going to cause a massive upheaval of the White House staff and of the Beltway culture, all because the people Trump asked to solve this problem instead decided to continue being a part of the problem.
Scaramucci strikes me as absolutely awful, the sort of person you would never want to deal with if you could help it. And I couldn’t be happier that Donald Trump has unleashed him on Washington D.C.
They deserve him.
You didn’t think the swamp was going to be drained easily, did you? The likes of Reince Priebus were never going to do it. This guy may not achieve as much swamp-drainage as we’d like, but whatever he does, he’s going to take no prisoners in the process.
I for one look forward to the executions.
