David Frum on WH Drama: We’ve Never Seen ‘A President Acting on The Part of The First Lady’

On Thursday night, The Atlantic senior editor David Frum made an interesting comparison, aligning President Donald Trump with former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Frum began by slamming Anthony Scaramucci for his reaction to his published interview with The New Yorker, tweeting “I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won’t happen again.”

“White House Communications Directors shouldn’t trust reporters,” Frum told The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell. “If they do, that’s not an excuse. That actually makes the problem worse.”

He then invoked the contentious firing of Don Regan, who served as Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan.

“First Lady Nancy Reagan thought that Don Regan was disserving President [Ronald] Reagan in a number of ways,” Frum said. “And she then conducted a campaign in the press that ultimately led…to his resignation. The reason she did that was because the president wanted to keep him.”

Frum then said this:

We have never seen before a president acting on the part of the first lady and not refusing to fire the person who he has the most authority over. It would be easiest to fire him. I mean he’s the Chief of Staff. He’s not a cabinet secretary. He isn’t the Attorney General. He hasn’t been confirmed by the Senate. The next Chief of Staff doesn’t have to be confirmed by the Senate. Donald Trump is taking the Nancy Reagan part and that is really strange.

The fate of current Chief of Staff Reince Priebus would seem to be up in the air as he was on the receiving end of attacks from Scaramucci. The White House could not say for certain that Trump supported Priebus and this follows a report that the president allegedly referred to the former RNC chair as a “neglected puppy.”

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.