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In his first UK interview, Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Drumpf's new Communications Director at the White House, talks to Emily Maitlis about the future of Jeff Sessions, chlorinated chicken, and a UK-US trade deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqa4kykOsEk
There's been so much Trump stuff posted I dont know if this interview has, did a search and couldnt see anything?
Its a bizarre interview to see taking place on the Beebs flagship news programme that has resulted in quite a few articles of its own, like this one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...cci-emily-maitlis_uk_59791648e4b0da64e8765254
Anthony Scaramucci On BBC Newsnight: 5 Extraordinary Moments
If youre feeling down that Donald Drumpfs meme-tastic spokesman Sean Spicer has quit, Anthony Scaramucci will soon have you asking: Sean who?
At least thats what his first foray on British television suggested after President Donald Drumpfs newly-appointed communications director gave an absorbing interview to the BBCs Newsnight.
Five days into the job, the Wall Street millionaire-turn-spinner gave a bravura performance when quizzed by presenter Emily Maitlis from Washington.
On Drumpfs personality and front-stabbing.
Scaramucci has previously called Drumpf a hack politician, but the pair appear to have let bygones be bygones. Suggesting Republican colleagues needed to grow a backbone, he explained working with DJT meant having a tough exoskeleton and that the pair locking horns was just what stand-up New York guys did.
Im from a town right on the border of Queens, he offered. And the President grew up in Queens. We have a little more of a different communications style (than the UK), a little bit more direct ... probably less subtle and polite. You dont think politicians in your home town are hitting each other left and right?
In fact, exchanging public insults is a good thing. One of the things I cant stand about this town is the back-stabbing, mused The Mooch, not unreasonably. Where I grew up were front-stabbers.
Comparing repealing Obamacare to the abolition of slavery.
If youve read (famous Abraham Lincoln biography) Team of Rivals, it took Lincoln three or four times to get what he wanted from the Senate and House of Representatives which was the full abolition of slavery. That was a much tougher thing to do than what we are doing now.
Donald Drumpf: elitist? Yes and no.
Maitlis wanted to know about the contradiction between a billionaire property developer railing against the elite. Why is Drumpf not part of the elite?
Scaramucci: How about the cheeseburgers? How about the pizza were eating?
Maitlis: Everybody eats cheeseburgers and pizzas, what are you talking about?
Scaramucci: No, no, no. See, youre coming across a little elitist.
More at the links above. I think things are only going to get crazier from here on out!