<p>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned, just as Anthony Scaramucci was being welcomed as the new Director of Communications. A &#8220;clean slate&#8221; Spicer said.  ;So who is Anthony Scaramucci?</p>
<p>A 53-year-old Long Island native, Anthony Scaramucci is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Law School.  ;He is co-founder of Skybrigge Capital and is a billionaire. ;</p>
<p>Scaramucci grew up in a middle-class family descended from Italian immigrants, his father was a construction worker. His father paid for his Tufts education, and he paid for his own way through Harvard. He began his career at Goldman Sachs.</p>
<p>Scaramucci created Skybridge in 1999.  ;He won the Ernst &; Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award New York Award in Financial Services in 2011 and was ranked No. 85 on Worth&rsquo;s 2016 Power 100 list.</p>
<p>As the White House Director of Communications, he will be in control of all messaging in and out. ;</p>
<p>This is an appointment that makes you go hmmmm.  ;And yes in a good way.</p>
<p>Does he need the prestige of being in the White House? No. He is a highly intelligent, highly educated and highly successful businessman. If he wanted to be retired on a mega-yacht on the Mediterranean, surrounded by a harem, he could be.</p>
<p>Is he corruptible for peanuts like a Hillary Clinton hack? No. That&#8217;s not to say Spicer was corrupt nor any particular person. But he won&#8217;t be subject to small whims, and he is enough of an outsider and a businessman that he will have no problem crucifying anyone who gets in the way of this version of &#8220;profit&#8221; which is the Trump agenda.</p>
<p>He is not the first billionaire appointed by Trump, and may not be the last. But in each case, the measure of success and capability is concrete. Trump hires ;</p>
<p>How will this translate into a change in the Trump White House? Scaramucci has the advantage of knowing how the existing problems came about, the level of difficulty and the intensity. ;</p>
<p>As a businessman, he knows the goal is the protection of the Trump agenda and a turn around in press coverage. And (not if but) when it is necessary to wage war, Scaramucci will wage to win. ;</p>
<p>Sean Spicer&#8217;s attempt to wage war against the media was always tentative at best because he needed the job, it was the best he&#8217;d ever had. This is not Scaramucci&#8217;s best job ever; it is his effort to give back. ;</p>
<p>Unless I miss my guess, he will do what it takes.  ;This is a power position and Scaramucci knows how to wield power.</p>