By Dave Goldiner
New York Daily News
Take it from the Mooch: Trump is in “meltdown” mode — and it’s too much for even a friend to take.
Onetime Trump-whisperer Anthony Scaramucci said Monday that he kept his lips sealed for years about the president’s erratic behavior but “his increasingly divisive rhetoric … outweighs any short-term economic gain.
Scaramucci was explaining his observation in a Sunday night interview that Trump is imploding in front of the country’s eyes and Republicans will have to think about replacing him on the top of the 2020 ticket.
“A couple more weeks like this and ‘country over party’ is going to require the Republicans to replace the top of the ticket in 2020,” Scaramucci told Axios.
Ramping up his war of words, the Mooch compared Trump’s damage to the GOP to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He suggested that even former cronies like himself, who once shamelessly curried favor with Trump.
“The reactor is melting down and the apparatchiks are trying to figure out whether to cover it up or start the clean-up process,” Scaramucci added.
Scaramucci’s interview amounts to a fairly remarkable verbal shot across his ex-boss’s bow. Although he lasted just 11 days before being dumped as White House communications chief in 2017, the Mooch has remained on decent terms with Trump since then.
Most advisers try to stay on the good side of Trump because they know the famously fickle leader might bring them back into his inner circle at some point.
That changed when Scaramucci called out Trump for his incendiary white nationalist rhetoric. After the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Scaramucci slammed Trump’s visits to the wounded cities as “catastrophic.”
Trump responded by slamming Scaramucci as “unqualified” and for cashing in on the fame that Trump bestowed upon him.
Now, it’s open war. Scaramucci predicted GOP mandarins would now open their eyes to the damage Trump is inflicting on the party, although it’s not clear what is different about this latest episode.
“If he keeps it up, it will no longer be unspeakable,” he said. “The minute they start speaking of it, it will circulate and be socialized. We can’t afford a full nuclear contamination site post 2020.”
