Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has become a household name in the wake of his incredibly short time on Donald Trump's staff [1], and when he sat down with Stephen Colbert [2] on Aug. 14, the host of the late-night TV show was not about to let him off easy. Colbert introduced Scaramucci as "the shortest-tenured communications director in White House history," and they went on to discuss Trump's reaction to the white supremacy violence [3] in Charlottesville, Scaramucci's thoughts on President Trump generally, Steve Bannon, and The Mooch's "expiration" date in the White House.
While Colbert promised Scaramucci he wouldn't ask him any rapid-fire "gotcha" questions, he had to ask one. "Nazis: good or bad?" Colbert asked.
"Super bad," Scaramucci responded.
Well, he definitely got that one right. Check out some of the most batsh*t comments from the episode below, or watch the interview in full above (and prepare to be completely mind-blown at the conversation between the two either way).
- On how Trump is compassionate: "It's a super tough job. He made a step to give up what was a luxurious lifestyle."
- On Trump's lack of condemnation of the Charlottesville violence: "It was late, I'm not going to say that it wasn't, but he did go to the White House today and he did make a statement. It was very declarative . . . . Let's be fair to him, he did condemn the Nazis today."
- On what it was like working in the White House for 10 days: "It's a tough place, there was a lot of infighting."
- On Steve Bannon's role: "I've said that [I think he's a leaker] . . . . Well, if it was up to me, he would be gone, but it's not up to me."
- On Steve Bannon and whether he's a white supremacist: "I don't think he's a white supremacist, though I've never asked him. What I don't like is the toleration of it. It's something that should be completely and totally intolerated."
- On his very short time working for Trump and whether he felt "burned": "Not at all. When you take a job like that, you know your expiration is coming. I didn't think I'd last too long, but I thought I'd last longer than a carton of milk."