At six months plus one day into the Trump administration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called it quits July 21.

Spicer has said he will leave at the end of August to allow for a smooth transition for new Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci to begin their roles to communicate President Donald Trump’s agenda to the American people and the U.S. Congress.

Scaramucci, 53, is a Harvard Law School graduate and formerly with Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street investment firm, according to Wikipedia. Spicer quit right after President Trump named Scaramucci to lead the White House Communications Office. Perhaps Spicer felt he should have been named Communications Director, but the president thought otherwise. Scaramucci will answer directly to the president. He will not need to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He replaces Mike Dubke who had the job for only three months and was rarely seen by the public.

On ABC’s Sunday Morning news show, Scaramucci said the Communications Office, under his leadership, will “reinvent the way we deliver information out of the White House.”

Sanders, 34, is the only daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and she is the third woman to be named press secretary after Dana Perino (2007-09) and Dee Dee Myers (1993-94).  Both Sanders and Scaramucci will have their work cut out for them because just about every day President Trump issues his own statements without their knowledge via Twitter and Facebook on social media that are jumped upon by a hostile mainstream media. These unprecedented presidential tweets stir up more controversies that the Communications Office must somehow explain and defend which is time consuming and frankly defeats the purpose of having a Communications Office in the first place. In President Trump’s first six months in office he has “tweeted” about 1,000 times. How can anyone deal with all these tweets and effectively communicate the president’s message in an understandable and consistent way?

Spicer’s tenure as press secretary was turbulent to say the least. He was often visibly frustrated by the constant assault upon him and President Trump that was so obviously observed during the daily White House press briefings that were televised live to the nation and picked apart by the media. President Trump’s tweets were often the subject of heated questioning by the media during these press briefings. In recent weeks these briefings have not been televised, but instead only the audio portion was broadcast live, which frankly is quite boring and intended to lessen the impact of these briefings during the present transition of Spicer’s departure.

Meanwhile Sanders, as deputy press secretary, held several televised press briefings — in Spicer’s absence — and proved she is quite good under pressure and unflappable in her support for the president. She was promoted to press secretary on the same day Scaramucci’s appointment was announced.

After August, it’s a safe bet that Spicer will soon be hired as a highly-paid TV news analyst/commentator — most likely by FOX News or One America News Network. Spicer’s six months in the hot seat will have paid off rather nicely. Let’s hope he does not turn against President Trump in his future endeavors that certainly would include writing his memoirs.

The U.S. Congress, mainstream media and the FBI are playing extreme hard ball against President Trump. The Congress is still mired in investigations of any Trump campaign collusion with Russian agents. They are stalling on any movement with establishing a new national healthcare system. There’s been no meaningful action either on the president’s budget or tax reforms. The voters — that put President Trump in the White House — are witnessing the opposition that this president is up against in delivering his “America First” agenda. It’s the Congress that will have to answer to the voters next year, not President Trump. Virtually all the congressional Democrats are against anything President Trump proposes and many Republicans, too, are shying away from this president.

Details about the ongoing FBI investigation into Trump/Russia connections are slowly being illegally leaked to the media by ‘unnamed sources’ that claim Special Counselor Robert Mueller, a former 12-year director of the FBI, is expanding his probe to include members of President Trump’s family and any Trump/Russia business dealings, according to a recent Bloomberg News story that has been repeated over and over on mainstream media as if it was true, but it may not be true. In response, the president has also made changes to his legal team defending him against any and all threats upon his presidency or his family.

Will Scaramucci and Sanders be able to better communicate the president’s agenda and stop the constant barrage of negativity upon the White House? Can they successfully sell President Trump and his accomplishments? Making that happen are the challenges these two must face.

About the Author

Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.