I worked at the White House. We were always cognizant that we represented the United States, that we should act with dignity, treat the institution with respect.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy?

Sent by Trump on a search and destroy mission, the sycophantic Mooch got his man, assisting in the final humiliation and dumping of White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. When the New Yorker published his attack on Preibus as “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac” and his assessment of Stephen Bannon as a remarkable sexual athlete, especially for his shape, the lesson that Mooch drew, on Twitter, was that he “made a mistake in trusting in a reporter.”

But he’d apparently failed to inform the reporter that he wanted his remarks off the record, and more to the point, why, on your first day on the job, are you making such extravagant, profane, insulting comments to a reporter, even off the record, about the White House Chief of Staff and the White House Chief Strategist?  Why did you tweet and then delete an attack on the same chief of staff in connection with a leak of your financial disclosure form, which turned out not to be a leak at all? Why do you need so badly to brag about your accomplishments, including mentioning twice in your bizarre interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo that you built two successful companies, even mentioning the price you sold them for?  And after all this bluster and swagger and hostile impugning of colleagues, how can you respond to news reporting that your wife has just filed for divorce by tweeting, “Soon we will learn who in the media has class and who doesn’t.”

Now that General John Kelly is firmly in charge at the White House, no doubt the Mooch is ready to put his head down and be a reliable cog in the wheel, devising and implementing White House communications strategies at Kelly’s direction. He won’t be freelancing for the president. Even though they’ve both built incredibly successful businesses.

Honorable mention here to Scaramucci’s new underling Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whom he casually promoted from the press room podium to take the job of Sean Spicer, who quit when Trump hired Scaramucci. New press secretary Sanders disgracefully described Scaramucci’s disgraceful rampage against senior White House officials as “healthy,” as in: “They’re not always going to agree. There are going to be a lot of different ideas. Unlike previous administrations, this isn’t groupthink. We all have a chance to come and voice those ideas, voice those perspectives and have a lot of healthy competition, and with that competition, you usually get the best results. The president likes that kind of competition and encourages it.”

Yep, he does.

UPDATE 07-31-17 1:36 pm: “President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday.”

1. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. Last week’s ranking: duh

“With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office.”

— Donald J. Trump, July 25, 2016, Youngstown, Ohio, rally, at which he also said a removed protestor was “going back home to mommy”

If he can be presidential, he’s doing it in front of the mirror. We’re not seeing it.

As you know, President Trump addressed the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree in West Virginia. His remarks included partisan political attacks, self-pity, sexual innuendo, the threat to fire Tom Price, cursing, and this monument to his ever-present need to avenge a handful of dinner jokes by his predecessor: “By the way, just a question, did President Obama ever come to a Jamboree? … The answer is no.”  The Boy Scouts were compelled to apologize to scouts and parents “who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree.”

President Trump addressed law enforcement officers in Brentwood, New York, on Long Island. After calling for an increase in immigration enforcement against gang members, Trump told the assembled offices, “Please don’t be too nice.” He explained that he meant that police should slam the heads of arrestees into the sides of police vehicles: “Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over. I said, ‘You can take the hand away, O.K.?’” His endorsement of police violence was promptly denounced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Foundation, and Long Island’s Suffolk County Police Department, which said on Twitter, “As a department, we do not and will not tolerate roughing up of prisoners… The SCPD has strict rules & procedures relating to the handling of prisoners. Violations of those rules are treated extremely seriously.” Except by President Trump.

And then there was the President’s Wednesday morning tweet series that began, ominously, “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……” Following that tweet, there was a nine minute silence that reportedly raised fears in the Pentagon about an impending order to war, and perhaps scrambled Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean jets. But never fear. All Trump was announcing was the reversal of a long-fought Defense Department policy to allow transgender Americans to service openly in the armed forces. All he did was state that he wouldn’t allow “Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.” All he did was put at risk the livelihoods and safety of thousands of people who serve honorably and effectively defending our nation. That’s all.

In doing so, Trump blindsided Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who earlier this month announced a six-month delay of the policy to give the Defense Department more time to study the issue, insisting that the delay in “no way presupposes the outcome of review.” Trump went much further than even the rabid right-winger in the House of Representatives who was demanding, as part of the security funding bill that included money for Trump’s fake wall, that the military not fund medical treatment for gender transition. Trump acted so ineptly that his announcement was quickly countermanded by Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wrote to the military service chiefs that the change would not be implemented until the White House sent the Pentagon a new directive, and Secretary Mattis issued new rules. “In the meantime,” General Dunford wrote, “we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect.” Meaning, until the Pentagon received formal orders from Trump to NOT treat personnel with respect.

Trump also continued his effort to obstruct the Russiagate investigation, an effort now focused on using whiny tweets to try to get Jeff Sessions to resign, so he can pick a new attorney general who will oversee, and maybe fire, Bob Mueller. Over the past week Trump pondered on Twitter why “our beleaguered A.G.” is not investigating “Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations.” Following up, he wrote, “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!” Trump, of course, is also peeved that Sessions recused himself from the Russiagate investigation — one of the few appropriate decisions that Sessions has made in office but, according to Trump, “very unfair to the president.”

When a reporter asked last Wednesday about speculation that President Trump might fire Sessions and replace him via a recess appointment, the White House released a remarkable presidential statement: “More fake news from the Amazon Washington Post.” Muy presidential.

And Trump unleashed Scaramucci to go after White House leakers, while presumably Trump himself is pushing the leaks that he is considering firing Mueller.

For all those voters out there who say they know Trump says silly things, but they wanted him so he could bring his dealmaking skills to fix Washington and get results, I mean, Christ. Did you see him in action on the health care bill with the lame threats against Senators Murkowski and Heller and lordy knows who else?  Did you see his tweet last Tuesday, “So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave – American hero! Thank you John.” The Art of the Deal. Tremendous.

So let me Scaramooch you for just a New York minute: Mr. Trump, you won an unbelievable victory. By an historic margin. You had the biggest crowd, the biggest ratings, the biggest whatever.  The best words, the best brain. You did an amazing job as president. An amazing, amazing job. So presidential!  I love you.

Now go judge a beauty pageant. Or sell time-shares. Or steal from your charity. Resign and stop disgracing our nation.

Trump is again number one — the most disgraceful figure in the Trump administration — in the Trump Terrible 10. Trump is not merely a disgrace; he’s a total and complete disgrace.