World News: This week in OnPolitics: Can you do the fandango?

with Jessica Estepa

This week in OnPolitics: Can you do the fandango?

As we've been saying for months, every day in the Trump administration is a new adventure.

This combination of pictures created on July 21, 2017

Friday proved no different, with the announcement of a new White House communications director whose name reminds us of a certain rhapsody and the resignation of someone who has provided us with much, much fodder over the months.

Thunderbolt and lightning, indeed.

Is this the real life

It started with a rumbling and ended in a crash. President Trump on Friday tapped Anthony Scaramucci, aka "The Mooch," to be the next White House communications director...over his own press secretary Sean Spicer, according to one White House official. The result? Spicer's out. Scaramucci, alongside Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Trump's next press secretary), suggested that Spicer did this to give the new comms director a "clean slate." We don't know if we quite buy that, but we're sure more details about how it all went down will be revealed soon. Until then: Take a walk down memory lane with us and remember all the times we had with Spicer, bushes and all.

Is this just fantasy

Don't forget that earlier this week saw the collapse of the Senate's attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare. After two GOP senators announced Monday night that they wouldn't vote for the bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to pull the measure. President Trump said they should let Obamacare fail , and then he demanded that they repeal Obamacare all together, before they leave for August recess. The vote is still expected to take place next week...even if one senator won't be there. ( Sending you all the good thoughts, Sen. John McCain.)

Caught in a landslide

Also this week: Trump gave an explosive interview to the ("failing") New York Times, in which he said that he would not have picked Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Really, here's the direct quote: "Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, 'Thanks, Jeff, but I'm not going to take you.' It's extremely unfair - and that's a mild word - to the president." Sessions, for his part, said he's not going anywhere . Trump *could* fire Sessions, but that would be unprecedented. But hey, when has that stopped Trump before?

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