CNBC’s Joe Kernen spoke with Anthony Scaramucci on Friday after the former White House communications director criticized his onetime boss, Donald Trump, for using “threatening” rhetoric against political enemies. There was a huge fight.
Scaramucci, who spent only a few days in President Trump’s White House in 2017, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he was unhappy with the “sloppyness” of Trump’s successful 2024 presidential campaign.
Kernen said “the rhetoric got heated everywhere,” and Scaramucci himself said it “got pretty heated” at times, a claim that often baffles Trump’s critics.
“How did I get the heat? “What did I say, Joe?” Scaramucci asked.
“Anthony, you have utter contempt for Trump. You will always be welcome at the Legacy Media table and people will nod their heads when you criticize Trump,” Kernen said.
“But aren’t you a little embarrassed, or at least humbled, by how wrong you are about the feelings of most Americans?” Kernen asked, pointing to Scaramucci’s “enthusiastic support of a candidate most people don’t want in the Oval Office.”
Scaramucci previously supported the 2020 presidential campaign of Democrat Joe Biden, who had low favorability ratings this year, and more recently supported Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid to succeed him.
Kernen described Harris’s policies as an “abomination” to what Scaramucci, a Republican, has believed his “whole life.”
“Have you ever eaten crow? “Not even little crow wings like a little car phone?” he said
Scaramucci, who later appeared on CNBC, sarcastically asked Kernen if he wanted him to “take the knee” and said there were “fierce differences of opinion” about Trump’s character.
“You like Trump,” Scaramucci said. “I got to see the ugliest person among them.”
“He has been very good to your career.” Kernen interjected. “You are here, right? And you will be welcome wherever you want to go.”
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