Scaramucci to Colbert: ‘I thought I’d last longer than a carton of milk’

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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci stopped by The Late Show Monday, where host Stephen Colbert grilled him about his incredibly short tenure in the White House, his adversarial relationship with other members of President Donald Trump’s staff, and his thoughts on the president’s response to the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Scaramucci acknowledged his disagreements with former chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon. In a now-infamous phone call to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, Scaramucci called Priebus a “f***ing paranoid schizophrenic” and said that Bannon courted media attention, saying, “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c****.”

When asked by Colbert if he felt Bannon’s days in the White House were numbered, Scaramucci said that decision rested with Trump, but that, personally, he would get rid of the former Breitbart News executive chairman.

“If it was up to me, he’d be gone,” Scaramucci said. “But it’s not up to me.”

Scaramucci also addressed the president’s response to the events over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia; Trump failed to specifically mention the KKK, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis in his initial statement on Saturday, choosing instead to condemn “violence on many sides.” The president changed his tone slightly in a hastily arranged press conference Monday, blaming “criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups” for the violence.

Scaramucci insisted that President Trump was “a compassionate guy,” amid boos from the studio audience.

“Let’s be fair to him today, though,” Scaramucci said. “He did condemn the Nazis today.”

“Two days later,” Colbert interjected. “Does he order his spine on Amazon Prime? Why did it take so long?”

Scaramucci also joked with Colbert about his 10-day tenure as White House communications director, saying that he certainly didn’t envision being let go that quickly.

“When you take a job like that, Stephen, you know your expiration date is coming,” Scaramucci said. “I didn’t think I’d last too long, but I thought I’d last longer than a carton of milk.”