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WASHINGTON Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
Mr. Trump offered Mr. Scaramucci the job at 10 a.m. The president requested that Mr. Spicer stay on, but Mr. Spicer told Mr. Trump that he believed the appointment was a major mistake, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange.
Mr. Spicer?s turbulent tenure as the president's top spokesman was marked by a combative style with the news media that spawned a caricature of him on Saturday Night Live.
A former Republican National Committee spokesman and strategist, Mr. Spicer was a frequent target of the president's ire ? and correctives during the first few months of the administration.
The resignation of Mr. Spicer was also a blow to the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, the former Republican Party chairman who brought Mr. Spicer into the West Wing despite skepticism from Mr. Trump, who initially questioned his loyalty. Mr. Spicer was always willing to alter the truth when speaking to the American people, just as Trump expected.