Trump's daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, supported the choice of Scaramucci, the New York Times reported.
On Friday morning, Donald Trump appointed investment firm manager Anthony Scaramucci White House communications director, plunging the West Wing into chaos. Before noon, news broke that press secretary Sean Spicer had reportedly resigned in protest, having told the president he thought that Scaramucci's appointment was a huge mistake.
Chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior adviser Steve Bannon were also said to be hugely opposed to the move, having claimed “Anthony would get this job over their dead bodies,” a top White House official told Politico.
Yet it’s easy enough to see why Trump went against one half of his inner circle (Scaramucci was reportedly cheered by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump); despite having zero experience in communications, “the Mooch,” as he is known, is absolutely unflagging in his loyalty…
It’s also easy to see why one half of the West Wing is freaking out, making odd bedfellow of Priebus and Bannon, who have previously been known to hate each other’s guts. For Bannon’s part, he presumably sees Scaramucci’s liberal Republican leanings as another threat to his pro-nationalist, anti-globalist agenda. Priebus is likely uncomfortable with the fact that the Mooch is also unfailing loyal to Kushner and Ivanka, who reportedly want Priebus fired. As a source told Politico, “Just hiring Anthony is telling Reince beat it, go find another job.”
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If there is a social hub of Trump’s Washington, it’s his own business establishment—the glitzy and controversial Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., in what was once the Old Post Office, just half a mile from the White House. One unique feature of this administration is its extraordinary wealth—the net worth of the Cabinet and senior staff has been estimated at as much as $5.2 billion—and top officials are regular guests at the hotel, where rates for a one-bedroom suite go as high as $5,925 a night. Before Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin bought a house in D.C., he was known to stay there during the workweek; early in the administration, another frequent guest was Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon, who earned her fortune the old-fashioned way: from pro wrestling.
On any given night, K Street lobbyists and Trump insiders can be found mingling in the hotel’s gilded Benjamin Bar & Lounge, sipping $29 cocktails and dollops of wine served in crystal spoons. Trump hasn’t exactly broomed the city clean of its webs of influence: He’s just shifted them two miles east.
But there were parts of the (Trump International DC) hotel that made no sense at all.
For instance, the first page of the bar’s menu was devoted to a delicacy it calls “crystal spoons.” If you pay $18 for one ounce, or, approximately, half a sip of a 2008 furmint, a Hungarian varietal, a server wearing white gloves so flimsy they were fraying at the seams will arrive wielding a bottle and said crystal spoons.
She will tell you, repeatedly, that they are real crystal, and explain that this drink, which she pours like Dramamine into a spoon and tastes like a mixture of honey and cough syrup, was a delicacy during the Russian empire.
When you ask why, traditionally, the liquor is served in these crystal spoons, she will explain that that part is not, in fact, part of the tradition.
The spoons have nothing to do with anything.
Someone at the hotel thought it would be a good marketing idea, even if it is rather difficult to drink a sip of syrup out of a crystal spoon.
Pretty much like drinking several blocks away, the Trump WH communication shop implies that frippery needs its unquestioning consumers. Just eat it and don’t complain about the service.
The state or heads of state SPECIFICALLY always need sycophants … and apparently Anthony Scaramucci fits the bill… an interesting Friday.
Passive Dining Room… Passive-Aggressive Dining...
Haters who express their hate for servers for poor service (or some other phobia) with tipping or writing hate on receipts …
Tipping always is fraught with problems, as custom, as culturally complex, as exploitative, as demeaning… as an opportunity for stupid people to give their credit card information to someone who can do more than spit in their food. That said, I tend to over-tip, and not eat out very much.
I rarely send stuff back to the kitchen because of preparation / quality of product, mainly because experience has shown that such action doesn’t improve whatever comes back. Usually it simply places the restaurant on my mental list for not returning. Gordon Ramsey’s new cooking program “The F-word”, actually moderates his signature abusive behavior to ask the patrons to vote in favor of competitors’ cooking by whether they’d pay for the dinner they’ve been served. That being said, i haven’t been to a restaurant in over a year.
Then again there are interesting analogies of industrial versus cottage production that do/don’t apply
So don’t despair, home cook. While the skin on that piece of trout might never be as crisp coming from your nonstick pan as it would be coming from a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet, a home-cooked meal still has advantages over ones from a restaurant kitchen. For one, it's made by you and meant to be shared with friends and family. And at the end of the day, if it tastes good and is made with love, it doesn’t need to look like it came from a restaurant. In fact, that might even defeat the purpose of it.