Trump PR chief ’s wife gives birth and he just sends a text
THE new White House communications boss Anthony Scaramucci sent his estranged wife a text to congratulate her after she gave birth to their second child.
Deidre Scaramucci had filed for divorce from her husband earlier this month, just weeks before she gave birth to son James last Monday.
Mr Scaramucci, nicknamed ‘ The Mooch’, has become notorious following his expletive-filled attack on senior colleagues barely a week into his job as Donald Trump’s chief spin doctor.
The multi-millionaire financier and fierce Trump loyalist lambasted White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, saying he wanted to ‘ f****** kill’ colleagues who were leaking information to the media. Mr Priebus was later ousted from his White House job on Friday.
And it has now emerged that 53year-old Mr Scaramucci has also been at war with his wife.
Mrs Scaramucci filed for divorce in New York on July 6, denying reports that her husband’s ‘naked political ambition’ caused the rift in their three-year marriage.
However, she is understood not to be a fan of the US President and Mr Scaramucci reportedly told friends she would ‘mock him for being a Trump sycophant’.
An insider told the New York Post: ‘She [Mrs Scaramucci] is mad. They aren’t really speaking right now. He tells her she’s not that smart, that he’s out of her league.’ A spokesman for Mr Scaramucci said the couple had been legally separated for five or six months and denied there was anyone else involved in their breakup. Mrs Scaramucci – a 38-year- old former investor relations executive in her husband’s investment firm, Sky Bridge Capital – gave birth to their second child, James, last Monday. The couple’s fractious relationship was further soured when Mr Scaramucci reportedly didn’t get around to seeing the baby until Friday night. ‘When James was born, he sent her a text saying, “Congratulations, I’ll pray for our child”,’ an insider said.
A source close to Mr Scaramucci blamed his delay in seeing his child on the suddenness of the birth and his estranged wife’s ‘anger’.
Controversy over the divorce is threatening to overshadow Mr Scaramucci’s attempts to salvage his personal reputation and that of a dysfunctional White House administration that is engulfed in bitter in-fighting and leaking to the media. Mr Scaramucci, the self-made son of a construction worker, started a relationship with Mrs Scaramucci in 2011 and they married in 2014.
By then, they already had their first child, Nicholas, now three.
He separated from first wife Lisa Miranda in 2011 after 23 years of marriage – they had three children together. In January, Mr Scaramucci sold his investment firm for £150million in the expectation he was about to join the White House, but his appointment was blocked by Mr Priebus.
On the evening he was appointed Mr Trump’s new communications director – a move that prompted White House spokesman Sean Spicer to resign – Mr Scaramucci was hosting a graduation party for his oldest son and joked to guests that Julia Roberts or Meryl Streep could play him when he was inevitably satirised on TV.
The usually slick Mr Scaramucci delighted Mr Trump’s opponents when he lost his composure in a chat with a reporter last week.
He called Mr Priebus a ‘f****** paranoid schizophrenic’ and said of Mr Bannon: ‘I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to **** my own ****. I’m not trying to build my brand off the f****** strength of the President.’