If there is one universally recognized axiom in Trump World it is, “Trump hates anybody to be more famous than he is.” Both Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner got quite the cold shoulder for their TIME covers. Recognizing that fact, Breitbart lashed out yesterday at newly hired White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and hit Donald Trump right where it hurts, in the ego. Breitbart:
Move over President Donald Trump. You are yesterday’s news. It seems like this is now The Anthony Scaramucci Show. And Trump better get used to it.
The new White House communications director called the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, a member in good standing in the Opposition Party, on Wednesday evening to blast his co-workers in a rambling rant that was so outrageous and discordant that reporters wondered whether Scaramucci drunk-dialed Lizza, was drunk with power, or, revealing he was unqualified for his communications director job, did not know how to smoothly go on and off the record — like Trump skillfully did recently with three New York Times reporters — so that such inflammatory comments do not reflect badly on his boss.
There is absolutely no way that Scaramucci could be stupid enough to make those comments on the record, so Scaramucci, in a fit of rage about leaks about him, may have temporarily forgotten he was on the record or not realized that he was talking to someone in the Opposition Media, whose members only protect liberals when it comes to sweeping such comments under the rug.
Regardless, his defamatory comments about Steve Bannon, the White House’s chief strategist, will only ensure that the story will be all about Scaramucci again. At this point, Scaramucci might as well just be Trump’s permanent replacement on The Apprentice.
Breitbart is comical. It’s reference to “the Opposition Party” puts me in mind of Uncle Screwtape writing his nephew Wormwood about “the Enemy,” and his ways. This excerpt truly sounds like C.S. Lewis’ masterpiece, “Screwtape Letters.”
Scaramucci also called a member of the Opposition Party when he was seething because details about his dinner with Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump leaked. That’s usually never a good idea given those in the Opposition Party are looking to bring down conservatives and nationalists, especially when they are not in the soundest of emotional states and thus vulnerable to such comments.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows and if this is any indication, if/when Scaramucci goes on another out of control rant, Breitbart will be right there to shoot him down, at least if its patron saint Steve Bannon is once again the object of Scaramucci’s wrath. Let’s see how many more news cycles Scaramucci dominates before deciding what Trump will do.