Scaramucci calls former White House colleague Reince Priebus 'Sith Lord'
Anthony Scaramucci has nicknames for his former White House colleagues including "Sith Lord" Reince Priebus and "creature from the Black Lagoon" Steve Bannon.
The former Wall Street investment banker, whose brief tenure working alongside the President last year has made him a regular pro-Trump talking head, gave interviews to Vanity Fair where he dished on those he clashed with in the administration.
Among favorite targets are former White House Chief of Staff Priebus, the establishment Republican figure who he says pretends to be "Happy Days" character Richie Cunningham but in reality is a back-stabbing "Sith Lord."
Scaramucci, whose sexually-themed insults of Bannon preceded his departure after 10 days in the White House last July, continued the tradition in the Thursday interview, and made a phallic play off of Preibus's name as well as insulting Bannon again.
"He acts more swamp-like than any person that's ever become a Washingtonian. So for all of his railing on the swamp, he is literally the pig in George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' that stands on his two legs the minute he gets power," he said.
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He called the former Breitbart head the "creature from the Black Lagoon" an epithet he also hung on him in a recent interview for the Toronto Star.
Scaramucci also opened up about the interview with Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker writer who has since been fired amid sexual misconduct claims.
The profanity-laced write up that followed would ultimately lead to his departure, though the businessman said that he believed the conversation with his fellow Long Island native was off the record.
"Of course I used the f-bomb a few times. I'm prone to do that . . . And I'm making some jokes and I?m playing for laughs, because that's my personality," Scaramucci told Vanity Fair.
He said that he was riding high after the firing of Priebus before realizing that the incoming chief of staff John Kelly would likely be firing him, something he found out when his White House-provided encrypted phone no longer worked.
The firing came shortly after reports that his wife was leaving him over her hatred of Trump, though the pair are now back together.
Scaramucci told Vanity Fair that his whirlwind experience in the limelight was "very painful," though reiterated his support for Trump.
He told the Star that he had stayed off of the airwaves after his firing because he didn't want to be a distraction, but has recently reemerged in the wake of allegations of internal White House chaos such as those in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury."
"I got wind from the president and his family that this was a good opportunity for me to go back on television, to advocate for the president like I was doing during the campaign and transition and obviously, the short time I was in the White House," he said.
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