00:00 Anthony Scaramucci, the former Wall Street financier turned White House
00:03 communications director, was fired by President Donald Trump after only 10
00:07 days on the job. And that's a new White House world record. Welcome back to
00:12 What's Trending, I'm Adam Bozarth. Yes, before we could grow to love him or hate
00:17 him, the mooch was hired and fired by the Donald. So who was this guy?
00:21 Scaramucci began his career as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs
00:25 working on Wall Street. In 2005, Scaramucci founded Skybridge Capital, an
00:29 investment firm he ran until January 2017. Scaramucci sold Skybridge Capital
00:35 in order to join the Trump White House, but he was blocked by Chief of Staff
00:38 Reince Priebus. So cut to July 21st, Anthony Scaramucci is hired as White
00:43 House communications director. Press secretary and Reince Priebus's only
00:47 friend at work, Sean Spicer resigned out of protest. And then Scaramucci
00:52 introduced himself to the world. Reince and I have been personal friends for six
00:58 years. We are a little bit like brothers where we rough each other up once in a
01:02 while, which is totally normal for brothers. Like brothers, mooch has a funny
01:05 nickname for Reince. The Daily Beast reports Scaramucci has privately called
01:09 Priebus Reince's penis for years. Scaramucci though loves Trump. Like, loves Trump.
01:16 This is an opportunity for me to serve the country. I love the president. I like
01:20 the team. Let me rephrase that, I love the team. But here's what I tell you about
01:24 the president, he's the most competitive person I've ever met. Okay, I've seen this
01:27 guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. I've seen him at Madison Square Garden
01:31 with a topcoat on. He's standing in the key and he's hitting foul shots and
01:36 swishing them, okay? Thank you. Obviously the man loves Trump, but he's lost more
01:41 than his business to get close to him. After his first week as communications
01:45 director, Scaramucci's wife Deidre Ball Scaramucci filed for divorce. Days later,
01:50 Ball gave birth to their son, while Scaramucci was with President Trump at
01:54 the Boy Scout Jamboree. Scaramucci's primary job was to find who was leaking
01:59 information to the press from the White House. Scaramucci suspected Reince
02:03 Priebus, but he needed something concrete. So, Scaramucci decided that the best plan
02:08 was to call up reporters and ask them to give up their anonymous sources.
02:11 Scaramucci called New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza and asked him to confirm
02:15 Reince Priebus was leaking to the press. Scaramucci also forgot to announce that
02:19 the conversation was off the record. Scaramucci tried to threaten Lizza and
02:24 threatened to fire the entire White House communications staff just to get
02:28 rid of the leakers. "I'm gonna fire every one of them and then you haven't
02:31 protected anybody," Scaramucci taunted Lizza. "So the entire place will be fired
02:35 over the next two weeks." As Lizza refused to name names, Scaramucci went on an
02:40 expletive-laden tirade. "What I want to do is I want to f*cking kill all the
02:45 leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can
02:48 succeed for the American people." "The swamp will not defeat him," Scaramucci
02:52 said, talking about himself. "They're trying to resist me, but it's not gonna
02:56 work. I've done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they're gonna
03:00 have to go f*ck themselves." Reince Priebus is a f*cking paranoid
03:04 schizophrenic, a paranoiac. Mocking Reince, Scaramucci said, "Oh, former Fox News
03:09 exec Bill Shine is coming in for dinner with Trump. Let me leak the f*cking thing
03:13 so I can c*ckblock these people the way I c*ckblocked Scaramucci for six months." The
03:18 most bizarre part of the rant targeted Trump advisor Steve Bannon. While trying
03:23 to say he has no interest in media attention, Scaramucci said, "I'm not Steve
03:27 Bannon. I'm not trying to suck my own c*ck. I'm not trying to build my own brand off
03:31 the f*cking strength of the president. I'm here to serve the country." Good Lord, is
03:36 that what Steve Bannon's doing all day? "I want to keep my head in the game. I want
03:40 to keep my ego low and I want to work with Steve Bannon as closely as I possibly
03:44 can. I have a huge..." Stop, stop, stop. When the New Yorker story broke, Scaramucci
03:49 tried to present himself as the victim of a journalist's cruel trick. "I made a
03:54 mistake in trusting a reporter. It won't happen again." Okay, there is so much wrong
03:58 with just this tweet. This is the White House communications director speaking.
04:03 His job is to work with the media to further the president's agenda.
04:07 Scaramucci is asking a reporter to give up an anonymous source so he can fire
04:12 them. That's exactly why journalists keep their sources anonymous. Asking to give
04:18 up the source isn't illegal, but it's highly unethical. I know, we're used to
04:23 highly unethical, big deal. But the trust that Scaramucci says is broken between
04:26 him and Liza is that a reporter wouldn't report on the unethical doings of
04:33 somebody who works at the White House. And if it seems like the Mooch doesn't
04:37 know how to do his job, well, it's because he doesn't. His only qualification is
04:41 that he loves the president. "I love the president." Well, love the president.
04:46 Sorry, Mooch, you got Chris Christie'd. And after only 10 days on the job, Donald
04:51 Trump abruptly removed Scaramucci from his job as communications director. The
04:56 Mooch's time with us was short. Very short. Like, physically impossibly short.
05:01 Jeff B tweets, "Scaramucci's official start date as White House communications
05:06 director was August 15th. It's July 31st. That's got to be some kind of record."
05:12 Jon Favreau writes, "I'm still laughing at the fact that Mooch was fired before
05:16 his official start date, the only White House staffer in history to serve for
05:20 negative days. In his negative time, he was also the victim of an email scandal.
05:25 A prankster from the UK sent fake emails to many folks connected to the Trump
05:30 White House. The prankster posed as Priebus and taunted Scaramucci over
05:34 email. The very real Scaramucci responded, "You know what you did. We all do. Even
05:40 today. But rest assured, we were prepared. A man would apologize." This is the day
05:46 before he got fired. So now the White House is missing the adorably inept Sean
05:51 Spicer, the Republican Party's voice in Donald Trump's ear, Reince Priebus, and
05:56 this fun new Fonzie character, Anthony Scaramucci. All gone!
06:01 John Cooper tweeted, "This pic was taken outside the White House fence today
06:04 shortly after the Mooch was given the boot." And even though Scaramucci
06:08 technically never happened, he will always have a special place in history.
06:12 Grace Parra writes, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but every Kim Kardashian
06:17 marriage has lasted longer than Scaramucci's time as White House
06:21 communications director." And Andrea Thompson jokes, "Between being canned this
06:25 week and his wife filing for divorce last week, Scaramucci is one dead dog
06:29 away from becoming a country music song. But Simpsons geeks like me will see a
06:33 resemblance to another beloved short-lived character." @Veve tweets, "I
06:37 have to go now. My planet needs me." Moochie died on the way back to his home
06:42 planet. So what did you think of the Mooch? For more stories like these, go to
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