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SHORT-LIVED WHITE House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says if it were up to him, top adviser Steve Bannon would be gone from President Donald Trump’s administration.
But, he notes, “it’s not up to me”.
“The Mooch”, a few weeks removed from his spectacular flameout following an expletive-laden conversation with a reporter, appeared last night on CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert has seen his ratings soar since Trump’s inauguration with his relentless comedic attacks.
Colbert showed a picture of Scaramucci and former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus glaring at each other. Scaramucci said there was “no love lost” between the two.
He said he and Priebus got along well when he was writing cheques to the Republican National Committee, which Priebus once led. Scaramucci said he knows Trump “as a compassionate person”, while reiterating that he thought the president should have spoken more harshly than he did initially of the white supremacists involved in the violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Of Trump’s frequent off-the-cuff remarks, Scaramucci said, “That’s him wearing his heart on his sleeve.”
Opinion of Steve Bannon
Bannon’s critics label him a white supremacist. Scaramucci said that he and Bannon had not discussed his beliefs, but he believed the former Breitbart News CEO was a member of the “alt-right”.
“I’ve never sat with Steve Bannon and said, ‘Hey are you a white nationalist or a white supremacist?’ But I think the toleration of it by Steve Bannon is inexcusable.
“I find it disgusting and reprehensible and I will renounce it every day of my life.”
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently urged President Donald Trump to sack Bannon.
Murdoch made his plea during a White House dinner before Trump left for a holiday in New Jersey on 4 August, the Times said.
The timing means it preceded the violence that broke out over the weekend at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving one dead and 19 wounded.
The dinner was also attended by Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s closest advisers and the husband of his daughter Ivanka, and Trump’s new chief of staff John Kelly, the paper said, quoting a person familiar with the conversation.
The paper quoted a dozen current and former Trump aides and associates who have knowledge of the situation.
Murdoch, a founder of Fox News, which Trump is said to watch assiduously and often praises as he criticises other mainstream media as sources of fake news, is close to Kushner, the Times said.
And Kushner does not get along well with Bannon, it added.
With AFP
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Why is “identity” an acceptable orgabising principle for everyone (blacks, gays, hispanics, women ) except whites? Identity politics should be acceptable for all or none. My preference would be the total elimination of all “identity politics”.
@Chris M.: Didn’t you know? Being racist towards white people is the only socially acceptable form of racism in the west these days.
@Chris M.: my preference would be the elimination of racially oppressive and prejudiced measures in which skin tone is an irrelevance. Sadly skin tone is treated as relevant in the sense that it is used to discriminate against racial minorities in the US.
@Tony Daly: Used by whom Tony?
Exactly. If people think Charlottesville was a once off or a blip on the radar then they’re sadly mistaken. Identity politics are the future, including White identity politics. It’s the natural inevitable outcome of diversity.
@Liam flag: used by some elements in the white majority such as in the areas of law enforcement, electoral registration, school entry, occupational entry and livi g areas.
@Chris M.: whites are in the majority and are not victims of racially disadvantageous treatment.
@Chris M.: White supremacists hate to have their sense of superiority and entitlement to privilege challenged by anti racists.
Neilo. Racial and cultural diversity creates conflict and tension in a society. Your version of a utopia will never happen.
@John III Sobieski: What’s your alternative to racial diversity in a society? Segregating the world based on skin tone?
If so, how would one forcibly remove those of the wrong skin tone who didn’t want to leave your ethnostate? Mass deportations?
@Malachi: isn’t that what Malcolm X wanted? A black ethno-state?
@Chris M.: he was wrong . It was and is the wrong answer to generations of racial oppression.
@Chris M.: you really love your alt-right jargon.
Malachi. Not flooding a country in the first place would be smart. Of course a society can function to a certain extent if the numbers aren’t too large. For example, any non natives were at max 5% of the total population. Also, true freedom of association would be highly beneficial. The vast majority of people naturally prefer their own cultural/race when left free to choose.
Neilo. *marching *yourself
@neilo: no intellectual response quick shout RACIST!
@Chris M.: I’m sure – not sure why you think I’d care what Malcom X has to say. Ethnostates are a nasty idea no matter who advocates them.
@Tony Daly: 500 white nationalists turned up at Charlottesville. 500 after weeks of organising. Pure hysteria about a non issue.
@Chris M.: I agree to an extent but the identities you mentioned organised because they weren’t given equal protection and rights by the law.
@Danny foley: Except for the fact that they killed a woman, injured many more and were indirectly responsible for the deaths of two policemen who were in a helicopter monitoring their protest to keep an old statue.
White supremacy or any kind of racial supremacy or racial segregationist political ideology is abhorrent and thankfully it is something most sensible people reject in liberal democracies.
@AR Devine: agreed White Supremacist KKK types and Black Supremacist BLM types are equally abhorrent. Reject all politics of identity and race.
@Chris M.: BLM is not seeking black supremacy.
@Tony Daly: BLM believe black lives are superior to All Lives. This is the essence of racial supremacy.
@Chris M.: ridiculous
@Chris M.: BLM = Black men, women and children not wanting to be shot. Nothing to do with supremecy. Anti-white groups people copped on that equality was more rational in 1975. You should join them.
@Chris M.: When has BLM ever said black lives are superior?
Black Lives Matter originated because black citizens were being routinely shot by police officers. White supremacists originated out of a desire to keep other races subjugated.
Trying to draw an equivalence between the two shows how warped your mindset is.
@Chris M.: again, that is a false statement, intentionally false and made with a view to deceive.
@Ricky Spanish: have you ever tried telling a BLM extremist that you think all lives matter?? More white people are killed by cops every year than black people just fyi.
@neilo: Black Lives Matter advocate and chant for the murder or white police officers also more white people are shot by police every year just fyi.
@Tony Daly: A lot of members of BLM have called for racial segregation on American university campuses. This is the antithesis of the civil rights movement of the 60s.
@Tony Daly: BLM want people to be judged on the colour of their skin not the content of their character.
@AR Devine: a misplaced measure suggested by a minority in BLM as an over reaction to the disproportionate killings of black citizens by US cops.
@neilo: firstly, apologies I misread your previous comment, my mistake.
Secondly, here is a video of BLM extremists chanting “Pigs in a blanket: fry ‘em like bacon” – https://youtu.be/eXcLuIq23tw
Finally, the officers assassinated in Dallas were shot while policing a Black Lives Matter march by a participant in the march.
@Chris M.: BLM is not a supremacist movement. BLM supporters do not believe that blacks are superior to whites; just equal. Straining to make these things the same just serves to cover up the bigotry of white supremacists like Steve Bannon.
@Chris M.: I would like to see your proof of the BLM leaders calling for that ? Also there is much more whites in America..But please put up that proof
@Peadar O’Grady: Chris M is doing what he does best,which is stirring sh.it..Anybody with half a brain knows that the blacks are treated differently to how white people are treated by the police-in certain parts of America…One of the main problem with BLM is that they’re a new movement that probably need to carry out their goals in a much better way…I’m hoping that they will achieve this…
@Chris M.: The KKK who have lynched and murdered countless people for their religion and skin colour for over a century are as abhorrent as Black Lives Matter who protest against racial prejudice? Are you for real?
The alt-right and Breitbart are not known for their support of racial equality. It would be very surprising if Steve Bannon, Trump’s ideological inspiration, were to accept the notion of racial equality.
@Tony Daly: For a generation in the US there is positive discrimination in 3rd level education…armed services…Many large companies and the federal government in favour of hiring and promoting black people….You are watching too many Hollywood movies from the 1950′s….US has moved on since then…..
@John003: some measures have been attempted at federal level but the racial prejudice problem permeates everyday life in access to services, including insurance, employment, health, housing and social inclusion.
@Tony Daly: you’re lying Tony, stop lying.
@Danny foley: Tony Daly isn’t lying.You are just an annoying little pri.ck on here.
Many Americans voted for a trump not because of his policies but because he was different!! Americans and many other different people from different nations around the world simply want change but have been lied to and deceived for so long that he was at the time…Hope, sadly that has not been the case.
@Anthony Ward: Trump was a protest vote by an angry and disenchanted populace deceived by a weaponised social media into thinking that Trump was the second coming. Trumped just mirrored the hate and prejudiced he identified and then amplified it. Trump magnifies the signals and then distorts them.
The Mooch and Bannon are not that different. Trump can certainly pick em.
It is very interesting to see Mr murdock wants Bannon gone, he is after all the real boss Bannon does not have long left.
White supremacists are the best argument against it
Freedom of speech is gone in this country ,if you disagree with the lefties who control the media and TV your a racist.
@Pat Troy: says a right wing commenter actively exercising his right of speech.
@Tony Daly: what about the comments that are not printed,and are not racist.
@Pat Troy: your comments are always published except when they are abusive and contrary to publication standards set by a private media outlet.
Right wingers have privileged access to the public and private media.
Killing the civil rights activist certainly permanently deprived her of her freedom of speech.
I think Donald Trump was right to sack the “Mooch”!
@John Reid: he only hired him because he was going to get free frozen yogurt for life.
His whole administration is packed with ne’er do wells ,Rupert Murdoch the modern “Citizen Kane”but less benevolent
Republican politicians are so much more interesting and entertaining than their Democrat counterparts who have the charisma value as a tin of old paint.
@Emmet Dillane: Yeah.They are a great value of entertainment in rest rooms…oh wait..
Trump has shown dismally poor judgment in his appointments. Of a bad lot, Bannon is the worst.
@Tony Daly: must be great to an expert on everything and everyone.
@Pat Troy: it requires no expertise to recognise a bad President and bad office holders selected by a bad President. It just requires powers of observation.
@Tony Daly: I thought Mr Trump was picked by the people.O Bama got the Nobel prize for peace,yet he was at war for every day he was in office.
@Pat Troy: Obama is no longer President of the US.
Billionaire backers of Trump used artificial intelligence techniques through companies such as Cambridge Analytica so as to weaponided social media with false stories and incendiary language. The effect was emotionally to manipulate many voters to vote for Trump as a result of covert and non transparent techniques.
Trump was democratically elected but the means used to procure his election were dishonest, manipulative and exploitative. The result is the worst President of the 20th and 21st centuries.
@Tony Daly: sorry the worst was kennedy , Then Clinton then oBama.
@Tony Daly: I forgot about Bush and Florida .G they never had a decent president.
@Tony Daly: he is in office less than a year and your saying this, bet you said this after a month, do you know his achievements so far? Course you dont, your not interested and dont care, you watch too much msn.
@Pat Troy: good points and he is talking out his arse, obviously a newbie to the world of clintons obamas and bushes and geopolitics. He is a msn watcher and sucks up every drop, to say trump stole the election without mentioning the lefists who controlled america for last 30 years obviously dont believe in democracy as they are trying every trick to impeach him, spread democracy democrats, take your own advice, trump is people person and talks normal, so like an outer space politician who cant give a answer or get anything done.
Philip – put up his achievements there for us .
I know of one which was the Supreme Court Judge (thanks Mitch)
Syria was another ..
Put up your ones there
“Writing checks” are you kidding me, have the journo staff gone to college? Please say no! “Writing cheques” idiots. Standard of journalism is a disgrace and point proven. Bannon is a racist just like the rest of the people in the world.
@Philip Mck: Are you saying that you, yourself, are racist?
@Larry Doyle: I do believe that he is,sir :-0
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