Anthony Scaramucci is off to an inauspicious start as White House communications director as his debut on Sunday morning television revealed the difficulty of taming an operation dictated at every turn by President Trump.

Scaramucci, a wealthy New York investor with no previous experience as a professional political operative, has lamented the failure of the White House communications staff to steer media coverage away from a West Wing in constant upheaval and keep it trained on Trump’s agenda.