Trump Adviser: Don’t Take Trump Literally, ‘Take Him Symbolically’

Trump adviser: Don't take Trump literally, 'take him symbolically' (Politico)

Take Donald Trump seriously but not literally — or better yet, take him symbolically, a member of the president-elect’s transition executive committee advised Tuesday.

“No, no, no, no, don’t take him literally, take him symbolically,” Anthony Scaramucci told MSNBC. “See, it’s different.”

Scaramucci suggested that Trump has pushed back his news conference from Dec. 15 because “he’s a very precise, very detail-oriented guy” who wants to have “all of the answers to all of the types of questions that’s he’s gonna get thrown.”