Redleaf: Scaramucci debacle shows danger in becoming the story

By Charlie Ansdell

Job insecurity has been a big issue in the news recently. Zero-hour contracts, flexible working and the gig economy has transformed traditional notions of job security.

It seems that such employment insecurity has now found its way to the most powerful office in the world - the White House. With hiring and firing an almost daily occurrence, the communications team has been particularly prone to disaster during the Trump administration. Who can forget Kellyanne Conway (expected to be the new communications director), Trump's 'attack dog', becoming the target of liberal vitriol during his presidential campaign? Or gaffe-prone Sean Spicer, defying reams of evidence to claim that Trump's inauguration was better attended than Obama's?

Indeed, the life of a Trump communications guru has so far been extremely precarious, with the perpetual threat of Trump reliving his Apprentice reality TV persona and confining them to the presidential garbage can.

Few, however, have had a rise and fall as spectacular as Anthony Scaramucci.

The Trump's firebrand's reign lasted just 10 days, during which time he ousted one press secretary and one chief of staff, before meeting this fate himself. The same week, his wife publically started divorce proceedings, reports citing his unreasonable "naked ambition".

To cap off his "Setimana Horribilis", this drama played out in front of a gleefully acceptant global media.

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