Mooch and Other Dramas: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup

If wasn’t actual, could be opera or Greek theater. Instead, snapshot of #Priebus as pin cushion, Trump sadism by proxy. 📷@WSJ pic.twitter.com/RltyW17TWZ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 27, 2017

There was really no way to draw a rope around this week. While Trump and his posse ratcheted up the hysteria, it was nearly impossible to follow all the subplots.

Anthony Scaramucci’s showboating and belligerence in the boss’s name culminated in Mooch going postal on Wednesday night over Reince and leaks. Trump earned a demerit badge in politicizing the Boy Scout’s national jamboree. On Capitol Hill (anyone remember Monday?), Kushner did his stealthy best to keep his Senate Intel Committee interview on the down low. And how about “the phoenix?” After bailing out Trumpcare early in the week, the ailing John McCain came back to snuff out the GOP’s last ditch skinny bill.

Just off the main stage, signs of gender and racial equality, and international sovereignty, also faired badly. Trump did his best to distract from RussiaGate by delegitimizing transgender military service. Also in the mix, our article for the Columbia Journalism Review examined the media’s visual framing of the opioid crisis, including the kinder/gentler tone, the racial double standard, and how the healthcare battle has accentuated both. If you missed it, you can click through.

From audacious #trumpboyscouts speech, no surprise how much gushing guy, red jamboree hats code to MAGA. Trump #branding. 📷@ReutersBarria pic.twitter.com/4eDF0ahHH4

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 25, 2017

The Trump White House interns. The picture speaks for itself. pic.twitter.com/9vNGpGq9VR

— Ananya Roy (@ananyaUCLA) July 24, 2017

They never fail to put at least one black face within a body or two of Trump. (Dunno if did same w Geo. Washington.) @Polioptics https://t.co/ZHX5gWxDmN

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 25, 2017

New Don, dawn, Don Jr. in 1. @Scarmucci as #brightshinyobject Full Getty journo/cabinet mingle edit: https://t.co/mK1WMzRYZP 📷@somogettynews pic.twitter.com/L9xHcJo3eg

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 25, 2017

Credit #DC photog Olivier Douliery for most ominous #Kushner post-Senate Intel testimony pic. Murky real estate & mirrors become you. pic.twitter.com/uhUtESDXp4

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 25, 2017

Gut punch of a photo (& caption). Back to the shadows. @politico #trumptransban #LGBTQ #military pic.twitter.com/H3po0a9OYP

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 26, 2017

Crossing the T’s. 📷@somogettynews U of Colorado 9 days before the election. #Trump #LGBT pic.twitter.com/dYCORAGmk9

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 26, 2017

Crowley’s tribute to #McCain from ’08. One of the most impressive halo shots we’ve ever seen. As well as coming full circle. @Stcrow pic.twitter.com/kytjbFxWDJ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 22, 2017

We only saw her injury in a few wire photos but fact Cindy ailing too deepens irony of #McCain‘s #TrumpCare rescue. @sullyfoto #healthcare pic.twitter.com/DdMCly1YAE

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 26, 2017

Fittingly, #McCain alone as the doors are closing. On way to Senate floor to sink the skinny. Parting shot. 📷@drewangerer #maverick pic.twitter.com/gAJpIwbxe7

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 28, 2017

Detroit is 85% Black.

This poster is 0% Black. pic.twitter.com/zsro697ZYN

— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) July 23, 2017

“We.” https://t.co/Mh3O2Lr73n

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 25, 2017

Seeing variations of this from the #FrenchRiviera. Cinematic yes, but all is not right. @AFPphoto pic.twitter.com/uWbgJUNa9Y

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 27, 2017

Nation bilking. pic.twitter.com/hThbJbh8Y4

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 26, 2017

When whites addicts die, they are remembered as angels. We frame optics of the #opioidcrisis for @CJR. https://t.co/sIClBLBcTp @jbmoorephoto pic.twitter.com/xx42NJ58gy

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 27, 2017

Photo: T.J. Kirkpatrick for The Wall Street Journal Caption: White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, left, and newly appointed Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, right, listening as President Donald Trump talks with reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday.