....White House staffers are turning on each other and chowing down — more than a frisson of fubar. And that ain't fake news.
As for the latter, SNL's new series, Weekend Update, promises to be the bee's knees. Yowzah.
Definitely no lack of material. The disfunction in the White House this past week was succinctly wrapped up by Anderson Cooper's lead-in to his show today.
"Good evening and welcome to the end of President Trump's "American Heroes Week". And, just when you thought it was safe to go to Happy Hour, there's more breaking news tonight. About 24 hours after it was revealed the new White House Communications Director called him "an f***ing paranoid schizophrenic", and accused him of being a leaker, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is out as Chief of Staff. General John Kelly is in.
Now, before we get into details of how this all happened, let's just for a moment take a at all the frankly bizarre things that have gone on this week.
On Monday, Jared Kushner appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee (it seems like a year ago) admitting he had four meetings with Russians. On the same day the President gave a speech in front of thousands of cheering and chanting Boy Scouts - a speech that the Boy Scouts later had to apologize for.
In the same vein, the Suffolk County Police Department today distanced itself from a speech the President gave in which he encouraged officers to be rougher with people they arrest.
Back to the timeline of the week... Tuesday the President said on camera what he had been saying on Twitter - that he was disappointed in Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russian investigation.
The President followed that up bright and early Wednesday, announcing on Twitter that transgender people were now banned from serving in the military - an announcement the military said the next day "means nothing for now".
And yesterday we heard more than we ever thought we would hear about White House dysfunction from the mouth of Anthony Scaramucci.
Which brings us to today - Reince Priebus out. It turns out he resigned yesterday (he says) after the name-calling and allegations of leaking against him. We didn't find out about it until late today.
The first part, about what Scaramucci said about Reince Priebus in a phone call to CNN yesterday, insisted they were "bros". Not the type of "bros" that Scaramucci says he and the President are, but "bros" in a more biblical sense...(Quote from Scaramucci describing it like Cain and Abel)
Now, if you're not up on your Bible stories, Cain actually killed Abel.
Happy "American Heroes Week". Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to mention...in the early hours of today the Senate voted against the bill to repeal parts of Obamacare."
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