Anthony Scaramucci: My Wall Street Buddies Regret Voting Trump

May 8, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC

For a brief moment in 2017, Anthony Scaramucci became a unit of time — his roughly 11-day stint as White House communications director was so fleeting that it entered the political lexicon. Nearly a decade on, he has proved more durable than the joke. The Trump loyalist-turned-critic, Wall Street financier and podcast host remains a fixture in American political culture. He is still parsing the president he once backed and the bets — on figures like Sam Bankman-Fried and on crypto — that have shaped his career.

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