Infamously Short-Lived Trump Adviser Mocks Vivek Exit: ‘Minus’ Scaramuccis
Anthony Scaramucci, infamously one of Donald Trump’s shortest-tenured advisers, mocked Vivek Ramaswamy for crashing out of the Department of Government Efficiency before it even launched.
Scaramucci said that the entrepreneur lasted “minus one day,” by removing himself from co-leading the White House department the night before Trump could officially create it on inauguration day. DOGE is now headed solely by Elon Musk.
The negative tenure means Ramaswamy cannot be measured in “Scaramuccis” a joke unit of time equal to 11 days, the length of time Scaramucci served as director of communications before he was fired in Trump’s first term.
“Ramaswamy lasted minus one day, OK? He got blown out on Jan. 19, so he’s not even—you can’t even measure him by Scaramuccis, which are 11-day time units,” he said on Politico’s Power Play podcast. “You know, like Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis, right? This guy didn’t even make it, right? He was minus a day.”
Truss was the former British prime minster who was outlasted by a lettuce. Coincidentally Truss was seen in D.C. partying and claiming to be learning how to “foment revolution” last weekend by The Swamp, the Daily Beast’s must-read newsletter about Washington’s secrets.
The writing appeared to be on the wall for Ramaswamy after his social media post in December that railed against American culture—like sitcoms, cartoons, prom queens, and jocks—and claimed it “venerated mediocrity.” Ramaswamy said the U.S. should continue to rely on H1-B visas to fill key engineering roles—a point that sparked a MAGA civil war that lasted for nearly a month.
Ramaswamy, who now has his sights on becoming Ohio’s next governor, was pushed out of DOGE by Musk, Politico reported this week. Their public personas suggest otherwise, however, with Ramaswamy posting a selfie of the two on Monday.
Scaramucci was fired by Trump as White House communications director after a whirlwind week and a half in the summer of 2017. In that period, Scaramucci missed the birth of his son, his wife filed for divorce, and he went on profane tirades against MAGA figures like Steve Bannon in calls with reporters. That included him calling the recently departed Chief of Staff Reince Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic.”
Trump fired Scaramucci, who was an “assistant to the president” and director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs, after 11 days.
Scaramucci, 61, has used his firing fame to be a thorn in Trump’s side, railing against him in media appearances and creating a super PAC that supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He says he even advised Kamala Harris on cryptocurrency last fall.
Scaramucci believes MAGA 2.0 will bring about big-name firings and fallouts that are akin to how he crashed out of the White House. He predicts Musk will be out of Trump’s orbit in a year’s time and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio won’t survive much longer, perhaps in part because Trump hopes to take back the Panama Canal from Panama.
“A lot of these guys will get blown out,” Scaramucci said. “I don’t see how Marco Rubio can last more than a year. Marco Rubio is philosophically antithetical to what Trump wants to do in society from a geopolitical perspective. So he’s gonna switch on a dime and just embrace all of the Trump stuff? Come on, it’s not gonna happen.”
Scaramucci said Trump is a “maniac” and suggested it is only a matter of a time before infighting erupts inside the West Wing.
“So now, all of a sudden, this new group of people is going to come in and everything’s going to work out hunky dory?” he said. “It’s not going to happen. So will Elon last longer than other people? Sure, because he’s worth $250, $400 billion and Trump is a little afraid of him. So yes, he’ll last longer than other people, but he’s already out to pasture.”
