Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. look on near the exit, during a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., November 4, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
President Donald Trump’s former White House communications director argued on Monday that his former boss does not care about the fortunes of the other members of his Republican Party.
“I think there's also a laziness to the way that he speaks about his goals and his agenda,” CNN’s Katy Tur said on Monday. “I mean, he's talking about losing the mail-in balloting case, he calls it unfair, and then just tosses off as accepted fact that no other country does mail-in balloting in the world — which is not true. I hate having to fact-check everything he says because it just takes too much time, but the UK does it, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, Germany — lots of countries. When you consider what he said about the housing bill, which Americans need, and which JD Vance has been really trying to push ever since he was on the campaign trail.”
Tur concluded by asking financier Anthony Scaramucci, who used to work for Trump, “why is the president so dismissive of it, especially when the Republican Party needs something to run on?”
“I don't think he cares about the Republican Party,” Scaramucci replied. “I do a podcast with Katty Kay called The Rest Is Politics US. I say repeatedly — he doesn't care about the Republican Party. He almost doesn't want [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio or [Vice President JD] Vance to be as successful, because he really doesn't want anybody to take any credit for anything. Moreover, he wants to tell Republicans: you guys were nobodies before I arrived in 2015, and you'll be nobodies once again.”
He added, regarding some of the most powerful Senate Republicans, “Just look at the way he was talking about people like [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune, [former Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell or [Alaska Sen. Lisa] Murkowski — just go through the list of people that are still some semblance of traditional Republicans.”
Scaramucci concluded that Trump seems to be “focused on making money for his family and creating a lot of stir and attention. And I think that's really it.”
Earlier this month, Scaramucci pointed out that Trump seems to boast about his own corruption.
“Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught,” Anthony Scaramucci posted on X. “A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.” The president’s claim is essentially “1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care.”
He continued, “That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.”
Last month Scaramucci told Bloomberg that Trump is also unpopular among many of his Wall Street associates.
"Trump is too dangerous. It’s funny, all my Wall Street buddies voted for him and now they’re regretting the fact," Scaramucci explained, later adding that "most of people are” but pointing out that “prices are higher. We have an oil crisis. He imposed illegal tariffs, which raised the pricing umbrella for all the lower-middle-income people that voted for him. He’s put us in a very vulnerable state as a country and an economy. If you want to make the case that the banks have record profits in the short term, sure — but he’s also suing some of the banking executives. You are losing the predictive capability of our justice system — what our civil rights are, what our free speech rights are. It’s very, very bad for business."
Speaking with this author for Salon in 2018, Scaramucci emphasized that Trump’s appeal came from his ability to speak to Americans’ economic grievances.
“What I saw was in a generation we went from aspirational working class families, like the one I grew up in, to [desperate] working class families,” Scaramucci told this reporter at the time. “What I saw is a decline in wages causing some level of economic asphyxiation for a very large group of people. And so Trump being out there, going into those areas, explaining the policies that he’s going to put in place, and then executing on some of those policies. I mean it’s not me saying, it’s just go look at ‘The Wall Street Journal.’”
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