Former Donald Trump loyalist Anthony Scaramucci turns on ‘nonsensical’ US president
- Scaramucci was briefly employed as communications director in the Trump White House in July 2017, before resigning over an obscene phone call
- He released a book supporting Trump last year, but has now compared him to a meltdown in a nuclear power plant
Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, has lashed out at Donald Trump, suggesting the president will one day “turn” on those he claims to be fighting for and that he may need to be replaced at the top of the Republican ticket in 2020.
On Monday, Scaramucci was asked by CNN whether he was “no longer an active supporter of President Trump and his re-election bid?”
Scaramucci replied: “I think that’s pretty obvious from over the weekend.”
Asked if he was calling for a change to the Republican nomination for president, Scaramucci said: “Well, I’m calling for it to be considered, yes.”
Scaramucci introduced that theme on Sunday, telling Axios: “We are now in the early episodes of Chernobyl on HBO, where the reactor is melting down and the apparatchiks are trying to figure out whether to cover it up or start the clean-up process.”
