GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN FOR AT LEAST TEN MINUTES – AT 7:08 P.M. ET:   Sean Spicer, a good guy, has resigned as White House press secretary.  He was reportedly upset at the appointment of a new White House communications director.  When his concern was not honored by the president, he decided, understandably, to leave.  He is a competitive, very well-informed man who was beaten up badly by the anti-Trump media when he was giving the daily press briefings.  Those briefings are now being given by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who will succeed Spicer as press secretary. 

And the new communications director, who raised Sean's ire?  NBC News has a good portrait:  

Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, is a Wall Street hedge fund manager and a top Republican fundraiser who's known as "The Mooch."

The 53-year-old businessman and author joined Donald Trump’s campaign in February 2016 after the South Carolina Republican primary. He'd previously supported Republicans Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. After Trump won the White House, he joined the transition team.

Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital, a billion-dollar investment firm, in 2005. The company had nearly $12 billion assets before he announced he was selling it to a Chinese firm earlier this year.

Prior to founding SkyBridge, Scaramucci was the co-founder of Oscar Capital Management and a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

He hasn't previously served in government and dodged questions Friday on how he plans to work with Trump, who often usurps his own communications team. The president, Scaramucci said, is "the best communicator" in the White House.

"I love the president and the president is a very, very effective communicator," Scaramucci said. He praised Trump's use of social media to get his message out, saying, "To me, it’s been a very effective use to reach the American people effectively, and I welcome him to continue to do that."

And…

"Coming from a middle-class Italian American family on Long Island, you were always fighting for people to take you seriously. When someone slighted you, you remembered it," he wrote. "Embarrassment and shame were the worst feelings of all."

Scaramucci eventually worked his way through Tufts University outside Boston, where he received a degree in economics. He then went on to earn a law degree from Harvard.

COMMENT:  He's an interesting and very articulate man.  His background is not typical for communications directors, but that doesn't matter.  What matters is how he does his job in a very chaotic atmosphere.  He acquitted himself very well today.  The Trump White House needs much improvement.  Maybe this new unknown can provide some of it.

July 21, 2017