Mooch Says Trump Should Dump Bannon

By Daniel J. Solomon August 15, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci might have left the White House after a short and troubled tenure, but that’s not stopping him from telling President Trump to fire Steve Bannon.

“If it was up to me, he would be gone,” said Scaramucci, also known as the “Mooch,” on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS. “But it’s not up to me,” he added.

Scaramucci served as White House communications directors for little more than a week, and was canned after an expletive-filled rant against other Trump advisers, including Bannon.

In that chat with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, Scaramucci said that Bannon was self-obsessed, making that point by describing the senior adviser as performing a sex act on himself.

Bannon has faced renewed calls for his ouster from the administration. He’s been at odds with the institutional wing of the White House helmed by moderates like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

Meanwhile, a campaign that Breitbart News, Bannon’s former perch, has waged against national security adviser H.R. McMaster has seemed to backfire on Bannon.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at solomon@forward.com or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

The coming year promises to be filled with more complex and historic developments. We are entering an era where independent, fact-based Jewish journalism will be more important than ever. We need to be ready for whatever 2025 will bring, and with your help, we can be.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO