to clean the deck. but isn t there a danger in making yourself so well-known, and especially in trump world, where, you know, the kiss of death for donald trump is when he says to you, oh, you re getting more famous than i am. the best thing to remember is what anthony scaramucci has said. there s only one important person in the white house, that s the president of the united states. and everybody works for him. you do have to do that. that said, i mean, i was in the reagan white house when there was sort of a dismissal of staff during iran contra and they brought in pat buchanan, experienced in the nixon era, and whatnot. people went bonkers over this because they couldn t stand pat buchanan. but things worked out. i want to play what scaramucci said about some people in the white house feeling they need to sort of protect people from the president. i don t want to put words in his mouth. let s play that. there are people inside the administration that think it is their job to
window. let s watch the sound. they have the parallel over time of what he said about comey. here it is. jared actually has become more famous than me. i m a little bit upset about that. oh, he s become more famous than me. the kiss of death. no one s really laughing. that laugh is so forced. oh, no. look, alisyn, i was so fascinated by this. amid all of the news from cnn and maggie and the times and the post last night, it slipped my mind. i think that clip with jared is so telling as it relates to comey and how donald trump thinks. which is everything is graded on he has a running list in
spicer counters what several members of the administration had been saying since the president s travel ban tweet storm. for the record listen to the white house spokesman s comments yesterday with chris. of course it is. it s social media. it s not social media. it s his words. his thoughts. it s not policy. it s not an executive order. it s social media. please understand the difference. we often criticize sean spicer for not being honest with the media. in that case he should be applauded about telling the honest truth what these tweets are. the president s words and president, every word a president users becomes part of the historical record. donald trump when he says something off cuff, it s part of the record. it is part of american history, folks. whether you like it or not. a lot of political observers are wonder if the president just gave jared kushner the kiss of
it s his words, his thoughts. not policy. not an executive order, social media. please understand the difference. look, let s thank the press secretary. he needed to say that because these aren t just official, these are beyond official statements from the white house. official statements press releases are filtered go through lawyers, go through the press office. these to the president s own point on twitter are unfiltered, his truest thoughts on policy, on all things. they are not throw away. when the president says something he s the president of the united states. it s news worthy. it goes into the historical record book. look, decades from now, without a doubt be the president s tweets being studied by historians. may be the title of a book. eight minutes past the hour. a lot of political observers if the president gave jared kushner the kiss of death on live tv.
death on live tv. this is the moment that s raising eyebrows and touching off a surge of speculation on social media. the president hosting senate and house republicans when he made this remark about his embattled son-in-law. listen carefully. jared, jared actually has become much more famous than me. [ laughter ] i m a little bit upset about that. uncomfortable laughter. does that comment have a familiar ring? it should because the last time the president complained about somebody becoming more famous than him, you know what followed. he s become more famous than me. [ laughter ] that, of course, that was james comey the former fbi director. so that is the kiss of death. look the president does not fire family members. i think that much we know. there s a big difference. huge difference. two tall guys but one he s