Ivanka and Melania ‘told President to axe the Mooch over his swearing’

ANTHONy Scaramucci’s sacking as White House communications chief was sealed by Melania and Ivanka Trump, insiders said yesterday.

The First Lady and ‘First Daughter’ apparently told Donald Trump they were disgusted and offended by his expletive-ridden attack on colleagues.

The brash New york financier had been in his job only a few days when he told a journalist that chief of staff Reince Priebus was a ‘****ing paranoid schizophrenic’ who had tried to ‘c*** block’ him from getting a job in the administration.

Of Mr Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, he said: ‘ I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own c***. I’m not trying to build my brand off the ****ing strength of the President.’

The conversation took place the day after Mr Scaramucci dined with Mr and Mrs Trump at the White House.

Sources say the two women backed Mr Trump’s new chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired US Marines general, who complained that Mr Scaramucci’s outburst had shown he had no self- control and had destroyed his credibility.

The White House has yet to explain why it initially brushed away Mr Scaramucci’s ‘colourful language’ and said the President ‘always enjoys healthy competition’.

Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers, had encouraged the President to appoint Mr Scaramucci to the job just ten days before he was summarily ousted.

They hoped he could root out the administration insiders who had supplied a stream of damaging stories to the media.

It has also been claimed that another factor in his sacking may have been unease over the ethics of his business dealings with China. In January, Mr Scaramucci, 53, sold his hedge fund to a Chinese company for £150million in the expectation that he was about to join the White House staff.

The size of the deal prompted claims that the Chinese were hoping to benefit from their connection to Mr Scaramucci when he was in the Trump administration. The deal is being scrutinised by US government officials and may be blocked on the grounds of national security.

Mr Scaramucci’s old university, Harvard Law School, last night apologised for listing him as dead in its directory of alumni.