WTF Happened at the White House This Week?
It was supposed to be "American Dream Week." Sarah Huckabee Sanders even dug up a cloying anecdote about "Frank" — the enterprising 10-year-old who'd written to ask if he could mow the White House lawn — to mark the occasion. But like "Infrastructure Week," "Technology Week" and the rest of the Trump Administration's inept efforts to redirect attention away from its many scandals and humiliations, "American Dream Week" went down in flames. Not even a four-star general, newly-installed in the West Wing, could salvage it.
In case you missed it, here's WTF happened over the last five days – or, as we're calling it, National Nightmare Week, part 28 of an ongoing series.
Monday
On his first day as White House Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly called curtains on former Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci's brief and bizarre stint as White House Communications Director. The Mooch was relieved of his duties after less than 11 days on the job, before he was able to implement key provisions of his master plan — like burnishing the president's image by increasing awareness of his golf skill. "POTUS is the best golfer to serve as President. Perhaps, we embrace it with a national online lottery to play a round of golf with him....or a charity auction," Scaramucci suggested in the June 30th memo released to the press after his firing.
Tuesday
Incidentally, on Tuesday, Sports Illustrated published a story praising Trump as "easily the best golfer" to ever occupy the Oval Office — with the caveat that it was impossible to know just how good he was since he frequently cheats and inflates his scores. Tucked into the piece was an anecdote in which Trump called the White House "a dump" to explain why he's spent so much time at his own properties during his first six months in office. (The White House asked for a retraction, but the author stood by the story this week, telling the Golf.com podcast, "The president said this in front of eight or nine members and staffers at Bedminster."
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