New White House spokesman called Trump ‘anti-American’
THE newly installed White House communications director has been hurriedly deleting embarrassing past tweets in which he insulted his new boss, Donald Trump.
Within hours of his appointment on Friday, Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci was removing posts in which he described the US president as a ‘hack politician’ whose rhetoric is ‘anti-American’.
He has a record of insulting Trump that goes back to at least 2011, when he tweeted about the ‘Trump Spectacle’.
In February 2012, Mr Scaramucci called his now boss an ‘odd guy’.
In another tweet that year, he called Trump’s then Democratic rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, ‘incredibly competent’.
Mr Scaramucci ramped up his attacks in 2015 when, in reference to Trump’s plan for a wall with Mexico, he tweeted a picture of a wall and wrote: ‘Walls don’t work. Never have, never will. The Berlin Wall 1961-1989, don’t fall for it’.
During an appearance on Fox News in August 2015, Mr Scaramucci called Trump’s tough talk on immigration ‘very, very divisive’ and told him to ‘cut it out now’.
He said that Mr Trump had a ‘big mouth’ and labelled him an ‘inherited money dude from Queens County’.
Mr Scaramucci, 53, is the Italian-American son of a construction worker from Port Washington in Long Island, New York.
He attended Harvard Law school and worked for Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, before founding SkyBridge, which is now worth $12bn (€10.3bn).
Mr Scaramucci was an adviser to director Oliver Stone for Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the hit movie Wall Street.
In his book, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, a biography and self-help guide, he called himself a ‘capital artist’, apparently without irony.
Mr Scaramucci favours tough gun control, is prochoice and anti-Russia, according to old Tweets.
His appointment led to the resignation of the White House press secretary Sean Spicer.