An evangelical leader’s suggestion to Trump: Wash Scaramucci’s potty mouth and fire him

President Donald Trump’s relationship with Bob Vander Plaats was rocky when the Iowa evangelical and political activist decided to endorse Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for president.

Although Vander Plaats ultimately supported Trump in the November election, things heated up between the two again in the past week, this time prompted by a vulgar, profanity-filled tirade from White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.

In an interview with the New Yorker, Scaramucci called the now former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus a “f— paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac” and said that Priebus would be asked to resign very shortly amid a White House shake-up.

Vander Plaats, whom the New York Times called “an influential leader of Iowa’s Christian right,” heads the Family Leader, an evangelical group that advocates for political candidates and policy issues. Vander Plaats took issue with Scaramucci’s harsh language and on went on Twitter on Friday to tell Trump that the new White House communications chief was the one who needed to go.

Vander Plaats tweeted that the president “must model and demand a higher standard.”

He also posted a letter to the president on the Family Leader website, titled “A time for confronting.”

Mr. President, it is time to look in the mirror, accept responsibility, apologize to the American people, and declare an end to this behavior immediately.

I suggest you lead by first washing out Mr. Scaramucci’s mouth with a bar of soap. After a thorough rinsing, strip his credentials and escort him personally off the White House grounds.

In the letter, Vander Plaats also called on other faith leaders to “fulfill your calling to be the prophetic voice to the king.”