It is safe to say that this father does not know the best.
Anthony Scaramucci – famous for only 11 days as former President Donald TrumpThe White House press secretary – compared his former boss to Logan Roy, the ruthless patriarch in the hit HBO series “Succession.”
“This is a family man, whether you like Mr. Trump or not. He is the Logan Roy of American politics. He has a love-hate relationship with his family,” Scaramucci told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday.
“Okay, wait a minute. Logan Roy is not a family man. Ward Cleaver was a family man,” Ruhle replied, referring to the beloved patriarch in “Leave It to Beaver.”
“Oh, no, no, I – you have to watch the show very carefully,” Scaramucci said. “He really loved those kids. It’s just this whole web of narcissism that these kids put on.
There is some basis for Scaramucci’s assessment of Roy’s feelings for his children: Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Siobhan (Sarah Snook). Brian Cox, who portrays the founder of fictional media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, told Collider. earlier this week, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, said Roy loved children.
But Logan’s controlling nature, inability to express healthy love, and toxic parenting style – which involves everything from blackmail to physical abuse to pitting children against each other – has resulted in four ugly and emotionally stunted adults.
“Does Logan Roy love his children? Jesse’s answer, from the beginning, was, ‘Yes, he loved her very much.’ That’s the biggest problem,” Cox told Collider. “They love these horrible creatures who don’t deserve anything, but they’re their children.”
And it seems Scaramucci caught wind of Cox’s recent quote on Collider and used it to support his argument on Twitter after appearing on Ruhle’s show.
But Ruhle responded with a quote from Connor, Logan’s oldest son and arguably the black sheep of the family, in last Sunday’s episode of “Succession.”
“It’s good to have a family that doesn’t love you, you learn to live without it,” he tweeted.
Many Twitter users agreed with Ruhle and responded with pictures of his shocked face after Scaramucci made the comparison on his show.
Scaramucci isn’t just comparing the Trumps to the Roys.
In June, Alex Holder – a British documentary filmmaker who was given exclusive access to the Trumps – made similar comments.
“And I’m talking specifically about Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, and then the president himself, and their interactions with each other, and their interactions with their father,” Holder said on Yahoo. News podcast “Skullduggery,” Insiders reported. “It sort of got this, like, ‘Succession’-type of vibe,” said Holder.
“But also, you know, it’s a real succession drama.”