SUICIDE – AT 9:51 A.M. ET:  Urgent Agenda did not support Donald Trump's nomination for president, and was only lukewarm to his election.  But once he began as president, we tried to be as supportive as possible. 

He has accomplished a great deal in his first six months, bringing back manufacturing jobs to America, building confidence in the economy, rolling back harassing regulations, and resetting our foreign policy on a pro-American course.  But, sadly, he has a Nixonian tendency to self-destruct.  He also has a tendency to step all over his own accomplishments.  He never lets an achievement stand on its own.  He adds to it by an irrelevant tweet or action that diminishes the good he has done.

Republicans in Congress show little respect for him.  He has not won their loyalty, and going after individual senators who oppose him on something or other has not helped.  Neither has personally attacking, in a stunning, vicious manner, his own attorney general, a former senator who is respected in the Senate, a body whose backing the president needs.  And now, one of the president's personal aides, in office less than a week, has totally lost it, and done real damage.

This site applauded Anthony Scaramucci when he was appointed as an aide to the president last week.  The tough-talking, New York-sounding Harvard Law graduate had a great few days bashing Trump's enemies in a strong but engaging tone.  Then...he gave an interview to the New Yorker, an anti-Trump magazine.  It's all over the place this morning.  He apparently didn't insist that the interview be off the record.  It was laced with filth and profanity.  He went after White House staffers, citing Reince Pieibus by name, in a manner more suited to the streets of a crime-ridden city than the style of the White House.     

If you wish, you can get more details on the interview here, but I firmly caution that the text is filled with the worst profanity.

I don't know where Scaramucci goes from here.   Once again we're not talking about Trump's program, but about personal behavior and the internal wars within the administration.

It's being reported that the president actually liked the profane remarks.  If so, shame.  Mr. President, you're heading for the exits if this doesn't stop. 

July 28, 2017