Civil war in the White House and an even wilder Trump

Civil war in the White House and an even wilder Trump

If looks could kill. There is Anthony Scaramucci going full alpha male: chest out, shoulders back, thumbs on belt, feet planted solidly apart, eyes fixed in a deadly stare. There is Reince Priebus, less obviously macho but with a face like thunder as he glares back, a yawning chasm between them. Many historic photographs have been taken in the Oval Office but few have captured mutual loathing so indelibly.

Scaramucci’s first week at the White House was one for the ages. The new communications director declared war on Priebus, branding him “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic” in what appeared to be a brazen play for his job as chief of staff – which, late on Friday, went instead to homeland security secretary Gen John Kelly. He roared from TV studio to TV studio, offering his street fighter’s defence of Donald Trump and vowing to take out leakers. And not least importantly, he seemingly jolted the president back into his most unfettered, unscripted, offensive and authentically Trump-like self.
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