Anthony Scaramucci, a Manhasset resident who was President Donald Trump’s White House communications director for 11 days, denounced his former boss’s weekend tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen as racist and “reprehensible.”
“I don’t think the president is a racist but here’s the thing,” Scaramucci said in a radio interview with BBC’s “Today” show. “If you continue to say and act in that manner, then we all have to look at him and say ‘OK, well maybe you weren’t a racist but now you’re turning into one.”
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning and expressed his outrage against four freshmen congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Presley and Ilhan Omar – suggesting “they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
In a tweet, Scaramucci asked if the president would ever make a similar comment to a white member of Congress. “No,” Scaramucci tweeted. “That’s why the comments were racist and unacceptable.”
Three of the four congresswomen were born in the United States. Omar obtained U.S. citizenship status in 2000 when she was 17 years old.
Scaramucci said that he still supports the president but that he does not have to accept every one of the president’s statements, a move he described as “un-American.”
The former communications director also criticized Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out against the tweets.
