If you're counting at home, it took White House press secretary and angry, shouty fabulist Sean Spicer only two weeks to go from the face of the Trump administration to newly-minted presidential whipping boy. Donald Trump is redoubling his efforts to hire a communications director to take some of the workload off of the apparently-overworked Spicer, according to a CNN report that is basically just a sequence of absolutely savage quotes from anonymous White House staffers.

A source familiar with internal communications said President Donald Trump is disappointed in Spicer's performance during the first two weeks of the administration.

Multiple sources have told CNN that Spicer was not Trump's first choice for press secretary. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was offered the position but turned it down. Other candidates including Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle were interviewed for the job during the transition.

Meanwhile, Politico adds that Melissa McCarthy's gum-eating, reporter-imprisoning, Super Soaker-firing ownage of Spicer on Saturday Night Live was seen as so devastating within the White House that it's playing a real role in President Trump's sexism-tinged frustration with Spicer's performance.

More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicer’s portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president’s eyes, according to sources close to him. And the unflattering send-up by a female comedian was not considered helpful for Spicer’s longevity.

The world seemingly conspiring to drag Spicer, a spineless goon who disgraces his profession every day by knowingly lying to his colleagues in a desperate effort to keep his job, is not something to lose sleep over. The more ominous aspect of this story, though, is that the President's discontent extends beyond Spicer to those that Donald Trump associates with him, too. This includes former RNC Chair and current White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, whose fealty to Trump—the man he reportedly begged to pull out of the race as late as October in an effort to save the Republican Party—was already a subject of debate. Again from CNN:

A longtime Republican operative, Spicer is a close ally of White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. According to the source close to the hiring process, Trump is upset with Priebus over the selection of Spicer for arguably the administration's most visible position, next to the President.

"Priebus vouched for Spicer and against Trump's instincts," the source said. The President "regrets it every day and blames Priebus," the source added.

It's not really surprising that this White House, which is populated by a gaggle of backstab-happy political neophytes who live in perpetual fear of getting the Chris Christie treatment, is proving to be an extra-leaky one. But the evolution of Spicer into a punchline both inside and outside the White House provides President Trump's loyalists with a handy preview of how he might react when things go very wrong and he casts about for someone to blame. If Spicer indeed becomes a casualty of Trump's jumble of mounting insecurities and frustrations of late, the message will be clear: No one in this administration is safe.

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