Anthony Scaramucci
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🇺🇸 Entrepreneur: @SkyBridge @SALTConference. Host: Open Book, All Things Markets, and @RestPoliticsUS. https://t.co/t4SOzQjxuy
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All the Wrong Moves comes out in 17 days!! The subtitle is The Three Catastrophic Decisions That Led to the Rise of Trump. But I want to be clear: this isn't a polemic against Trump or an indictment of either party. It's about decisions that were made with good intentions that went catastrophically wrong. Both parties are involved. This isn't left or right; it's about what's right and wrong for America. It's a distillation of my economic and political observations over 35 years. And some of my blue-collar upbringing to explain how we got to the current crisis. I think there's something for everyone in it. Please consider pre-ordering a copy today! ⬇️ Henry Holt & Company
Anthony Scaramucci32,017 Aufrufe • vor 1 Tag
Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear. She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news. He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you. That is EXACTLY what he’s done. The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity. That is not Donald Trump. He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent. For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.
Anthony Scaramucci776,936 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Bitcoin in the tightest volatility band it’s been in for five years. Three things are going on: 1. Miners have transferred significant compute power to AI, which disrupted the hash rate and muted volatility. 2. Capital has also fled crypto into AI broadly. 3. Four-year cycle believers see that we’re at the tail end of what would typically be the bear market phase; we’re 18 to 19 months from the next halving. All three factors have suppressed the price. But we are still bulls on Bitcoin. As the halving cycle comes back around and supply gets cut again, it tightens price. I think you’ll see it move back above $100,000. This is from my appearance on Squawk Box with Andrew Ross Sorkin this morning live from the SALT Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.
Anthony Scaramucci170,881 Aufrufe • vor 19 Tagen
America has no hereditary memory of fascism. In Britain they take field trips to the Churchill war cabinets. In France they go to Normandy. In Germany they visit Auschwitz. The specter of fascism is in the veins of those people 80 years later. We have nothing like that. Franklin Roosevelt put down the first America First movement in the late 1930s: Lindbergh, Huey Long, Father Coughlin. He manhandled them and he had the skills to do it. His own Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau said it plainly, Roosevelt has the charisma and the skills of a dictator. The good news is he's on our side. We don't have that institutional memory anymore.
Anthony Scaramucci75,381 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen
The guy who fired me at Goldman said that I was an experiment. He said I don't dress the part, act the part, talk the part. He was right. I could give you the polished version of my life. I was a blue collar kid, Harvard, Goldman, Entrepreneur of the Year. But I've read enough billionaire memoirs to know what that sounds like. Self-congratulatory and honestly bullsh*t. That version sucks for your children. If you don't expose your vulnerabilities to your kids, your success becomes an impossible standard instead of an inspiration. And for anyone out there wondering if it's doable from the middle class, it is. There will be stupidity and failure and wild self-consciousness. You'll find your way. I'm proof.
Anthony Scaramucci88,722 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen
Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught. A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses. 1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care. That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now. Please stand up and prove him wrong.
Anthony Scaramucci650,485 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
The dollar didn’t just weaken — it quietly robbed you. Down 28% in five years. My parents bought their house in 1962 for $16,000. Back then, gold was $35 an ounce. That house cost 457 ounces of gold. Today, the house is “worth” $750,000. Gold is about $3,300 an ounce. That same house is 227 ounces of gold — half the real value. Everyone thinks they got rich. They didn’t. The measuring stick got warped. That’s the scam of inflation. Prices go up, politicians get away with it. People confuse bigger numbers with more wealth. A million dollars today feels impressive — until you realize it’s the purchasing power of about eighty grand in 1970. You’re not richer. The currency is weaker.
Anthony Scaramucci1,635,467 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
Anthony Scaramucci1,071,164 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
People can't figure out how Trump got to the presidency because they've never been in a room with him. If he walked through the door right now — even though we're always fighting — he would be disarming, gregarious, genuinely charming. He calls Newsom “Newscum" publicly and then sees him on the tarmac and says Gavin, are we good? He'll destroy a journalist on camera and then pick up the phone five minutes later. Are we good? That's Trump. You have to understand that about him. He also doesn't like people standing up to him, but he respects it deeply. Carney is blasting him and I guarantee Trump calls Carney more than any other Western leader. He wants to win Carney's approval and because he respects that Carney won't give it to him easily. When he's sitting at a table and everyone is telling him his invisible clothes are beautiful, he's nauseated by it. He comes off the plane and finds someone real and says — can you believe how these guys talk to me? With genuine mocking derision. He craves the pushback. He just can't admit it.
Anthony Scaramucci687,597 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Let me tell you exactly how Trump thinks. He operates unilaterally. He thinks he’s smarter than everybody. When his advisors told him Iran might close the Strait or attack our allies he said — they're not going to do that. And then he had to admit to the press that he did not expect Iran to launch missiles at a 9 to 1 ratio against our allies versus Israel. Let's be honest about what actually happened. He went in unilaterally. Didn't sell it to the American people. Didn't consult our NATO allies. We have 25 years of evidence that we’re not good at regime change. We went from the Taliban to the Taliban. We spent 20 years and trillions of dollars and came full circle. We went from Khomeini to Khomeini in less than a Scaramucci. The biggest brain in the room couldn't see that coming.
Anthony Scaramucci993,599 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Obama wore a tan suit and Fox News set their hair on fire. Now I want you to imagine Obama starting a war that creates a quagmire costing several hundred billion dollars. Imagine Obama trading in his personal account to the tune of $22 billion. Imagine the right wing outrage. We all know what would have happened. Instead these guys fall in line. The hypocrisy isn’t even hidden anymore. It’s just sitting there in plain sight and nobody seems embarrassed by it. That tells you everything about where we are.
Anthony Scaramucci270,257 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
J.D. Vance is halfway through the woodchipper right now. And if you don’t understand that the attack on the Pope was aimed directly at Vance — you don’t understand Donald Trump. Vance converted to Catholicism. He’s writing a book about that conversion. So Trump attacks the Pope. It destroys Vance. He forces him onto Bret Baier’s show as a supplicant. Kneeling to Trump instead of his own God. That’s the message. I will emasculate you publicly and you will thank me for it. Trump wants to be the last Republican president. He wants to tell the party — you were nothing before me. You’re nothing after me. He doesn’t want Rubio or Vance to succeed him. He doesn’t want anyone taking credit for anything he built. It’s one man’s show. Always has been. If Vance had the nerve — the real move is to resign. He won’t. He’s too ambitious and too cunning.
Anthony Scaramucci773,919 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
My arch nemesis Steve Bannon, someone I genuinely can't stand, actually nailed this one. He said pay attention to Zohran Mamdani. He’s a great communicator and has a real vision. He understands where people are and how upset they are. And Trump's response is to slap a broad brush on it and call it communism. Which I think is a serious mistake, because when you do that you miss the entire point of what's actually got people upset. Listen to Mamdani's speech, that's not communism, that's Scandinavianism. He wants a regulated capitalism with a stronger safety net. Trump is successfully labeling it something it isn't and a lot of people are buying it. But the underlying anger is real and mislabeling it doesn't make it go away.
Anthony Scaramucci321,505 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Let me talk about my marriage for a second. We've been together sixteen years, married twelve. We almost got divorced when I was in the White House. My wife probably hates Trump almost as much as Melania does — and that is a very high standard of hatred. She knew things about him from friends and she really didn't want me to go work for him and we were fighting for other reasons on top of all that. We reconciled because I believe relationships shouldn't be transactional and they shouldn't be disposable. If you love each other and somebody makes a mistake, you can't throw the whole thing away because it didn't go perfectly. No marriage is perfect. Every marriage is a work in progress. But I can honestly tell you we're closer today than we were before any of it happened. That's the only good thing I can say came out of those eleven days.
Anthony Scaramucci604,852 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Every person who came to work at SkyBridge got one big lecture from me. It was about my dad. My dad for 42 years got up at 4:00 in the morning. Didn’t matter what the weather was. My mom packed his lunch pail at night, put it in the refrigerator. For 42 years he climbed out of bed at 4:10, got dressed, grabbed the lunch pail, and drove himself to work. He worked 8-14 hour days outside and in every kind of weather. At SkyBridge there’s no heavy lifting. You’re indoors, out of direct sunlight, and you get a free meal. That was not the case for my father. My dad gave me my last name clean and you’re not going to do anything here that besmirches his reputation. They can call us stupid, but they will never call us unethical. Remember this story for your entire career. We are doing nothing inside this firm to impugn the reputation of a man who worked tirelessly for his family for 42 straight years. That’s the standard.
Anthony Scaramucci135,841 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen
Trump doesn’t have dementia. I’ll say that clearly. He has a narcissistic personality and the normal infirmities you’d expect at 80. But he’s a fairly vigorous, fairly healthy 80. Don’t underestimate him. Here’s where he’s genuinely unwell. He’s making statements that are nowhere near what a world leader should be saying. Threatening the death and destruction of an entire civilization on social media is a war crime. Threatening a war crime is itself a war crime. Imagine any other world leader saying anything close to that. It would never happen in the first place and if it did, their own party would remove them within hours.
Anthony Scaramucci307,446 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
After years of telling everybody else how to run the country and months of deliberation, I have a special announcement: I’m running for President of the United States in 2028. I am aware of what happened the last time I worked in the White House. But I do believe I can help guide this country in the right direction. Join me and help me heal America. Mooch 2028 🇺🇸
Anthony Scaramucci728,592 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
If Trump is disavowing NATO and breaking an 80 year tradition — something’s wrong. If Trump is praising Vladimir Putin, whose entire economy is slightly smaller than the state of Texas — something’s wrong. If Trump is disavowing the 1994 defense agreement where we told Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons and we’d protect them — the agreement that got him impeached in his first term — something is wrong. He blasts and berates every world leader. Won’t say a single negative word about Putin. Putin owns him. It’s hard to watch as an American but it’s obvious. Why does he own him? That’ll probably come out someday. It’s not just Trump. Right-leaning podcasters taking money from the Russian government to spout their talking points. Republicans hanging out in Moscow, repeating the same lines. The question isn’t whether something exists. It’s what.
Anthony Scaramucci233,938 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Steve Bannon is the worst human being you can meet. He’s charismatic, well read, conversant in history, and genuinely intelligent in certain ways. But God made him so ugly in order to protect civilization from him. He’s a white supremacist who wants to drag this country back to the 1890s. -Dismantle free trade. -Push black and brown people out. -Manufacture everything domestically behind walls. He is one of the most dangerous people in American politics precisely because he’s smart enough to make bad ideas sound serious. Thank you for having me on the show The Fifth Column 🖐
Anthony Scaramucci389,076 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten