Sean Spicer resigns ... the "Spicey Show is over" ...

The President has appointed Anthony Scaramucci Director of Communications at the White House. It was all too much for Sean Spicer former White House Press secretary. Sean Spicer resigned.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Spicer's deputy was appointed to replace him in what may well become the quarterly White House shuffle. "The President had wanted me to stay" said Spicer "Better to give them an opportunity to have a clean slate".

Spicer had the difficult job of defending the President in the operation of the unorthodox. According to the Washington Post, "The humiliations started with his first appearance in the Press Room, the day after Trump's inauguration. Press comparisons with the size of crowd compared to Obama, prompted a fierce response at the behest of the President. "This was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period", said Spicer. It was later revealed that Trump angered by cable new coverage, had personally ordered the performance.

More problems followed as Spicer was forced to explain the "travel ban" was not a "travel ban". Kelly Anne Conway explained the use of Spicer's "alternative facts". Saturday Night Live led to the merciless lampooning of Spicer, in the "Spicey Show" on Saturday Night Live. 

Spicer was increasingly undercut by Trump on Twitter or in any media vehicle for that matter. Sidelined in recent weeks, the daily briefings discontinued, the off the record sessions replaced the incoherent attempts to keep pace with the ramblings from the Oval Office. Spicer's credibility was exhausted. It is time for Scaramucci to have a go. Scaramucci  loves the President, loves the White House, loves Sean Spicer, loves America as he explained in his first press show on Friday.

OK, he may have dismissed Trump as a "Hick Politician" in the past ... but that was then and this is now. For the moment, it's a love in at the White House ... but for how long remains to be seen ... at least he has no contacts with the Russians ... or ...

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