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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
I think Trump is super deferential to military guys like Kelly (insert armchair psychology about Trump's time in military prep school here) such that if Kelly insists that if his NY dudebro buddy Mooch has to go, he goes.
Could be. I just thought it was sage to point out ahead of time that Trump actually might really dislike someone behaving just like him. Trump probably saw Scaramucci on TV and thought he could be molded into being servile and useful as a loyal soldier. Instead he got the wrong form of servility: an imposter and a challenger to the throne. If we think Trump is a narcissistic sociopath, hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. Trump sees himself as transgressive, special, above the norms. Everyone else follows the rules, he insists on that. Everyone has to play-act the disciplined good soldier. Everyone else is expected to treat women with class and dignity. Scaramucci taking on the bull-in-a-china-shop pose perhaps really annoyed him as a form of usurpation. The Trump White House only has one alpha who shoots from the hip and tells the women folk how to dress and that's Big Poppa, he expects his staff to be loyal betas and fall into line.