Anthony Scaramucci, the White House‘s new communications director, has gone on the record blasting chief strategist Steve Bannon for figuratively trying to suck his own cock.
Apparently, nobody told Scaramucci he could speak off the record.
He’d phoned a journalist from the New Yorker on Wednesday night, trying to find the source of a recent leak, and made an off-hand comment about Bannon that is currently melting down the internet right now.
“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock. I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”
The journalist, Ryan Lizza, noted that Bannon declined to comment.
The absolutely wild piece mostly details Scaramucci’s increasingly deranged threats to fire the entire communications staff if Lizza didn’t reveal the source of the leak (he didn’t).
“They’ll all be fired by me,” he said at one point, getting desperate. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you.”
He also blasted chief of staff Reince Priebus (they notedly hate each other) as being a paranoid rival who “cock-blocked” his joining the White House administration for six months. leaked news of a dinner between Scaramucci, President Trump, Melania Trump, Sean Hannity and former Fox exec Bill Shine as a way to cock-block Shine from supposedly joining the administration.
“Oh, Bill Shine is coming in,” he said, imitating Priebus and referencing a private dinner between Shine, a former Fox News exec, and President Trump, Melania Trump, Sean Hannity and himself that was leaked to the press. “Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ”
But honestly. Once you bring up self-fellatio, there’s really no going back.
Stop Kink-Shaming Steve Bannon
— John Cook (@johnjcook) July 27, 2017
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 27, 2017
And again, to be clear, THE MAN TASKED W WHITE HOUSE PRESS JUST TOLD A REPORTER: “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.” https://t.co/9STON7JORT
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) July 27, 2017
I feel like anyone who uses the phrase “i’m not trying to suck my own cock” has for sure tried to suck their own cock.
— June Diane Raphael (@MsJuneDiane) July 27, 2017
Donald Trump: We hire the best people.
Anthony Scaramucci: I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.
— Michael Blackman (@MBlackman37) July 27, 2017
great now barron thinks steve bannon sucking his own dick is real
— eve ?? peyser (@evepeyser) July 27, 2017
i wonder if Steve Bannon got his ribs removed under Obamacare
— Seerat Sohi (@DamianTrillard) July 27, 2017
Steve Bannon says Paul Ryan’s a limp dick. The Mooch says Bannon sucks his own cock. These Trump guys are obsessed with each other’s penises
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) July 27, 2017
Yes, the legislative branch is trying to destroy healthcare, but the executive branch is forcing us to imagine Steve Bannon’s dong.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) July 27, 2017
If you want to see Scaramucci’s official response to the thing:
I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump‘s agenda. #MAGA
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 27, 2017
Honestly, if you only read one thing today, it has to be this piece.
A conversation with Anthony Scaramucci… https://t.co/7TY64NfAWu
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 27, 2017
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty.