Scaramucci In Holmdel: 'I Was Too Salty' At The White House

HOLMDEL, NJ — Speaking at a business expo at Bell Labs in Holmdel Tuesday, Anthony Scaramucci said he was a little "too salty and too colloquial" during his infamously short tenure as White House communications director, and he has no qualms with President Donald Trump for firing him.

"I was too salty and too colloquial with (a confidant) on the phone, and that’s my fault," Scaramucci said, according to the Asbury Park Press, which attended his talk Tuesday. "I own that. I’m not blaming anybody else for that and so when John Kelly decided it was time for me to leave the White House because of that, no problem. That doesn’t mean I’m going to break my loyalty from the president."

As Patch reported, Scaramucci was speaking to a group of business people at a business expo organized by the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce. The talk was open to anyone to attend.

Scaramucci was famously fired last year as White House communications director after The New Yorker published an explicit interview with him that he later said he thought was off the record. Since he was fired, Scaramucci has returned as managing director of the hedge fund SkyBridge Capital, which hosted the June 5 networking event.

At his talk, Scarmucci said he was influenced in life by his Italian heritage and growing up on Long Island, where a Jewish friend's mother taught him the importance of doing well in school.

Both Scaramucci and Trump are friendly with Orthodox Jewish groups, who, on the whole, view the Trump administration as being friendly towards Jewish causes as well as being pro-business.

In fact, Scaramucci is a close friend of Duvi Honig, who lives in Lakewood and is president of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce. Scaramucci has appeared on Honig's Twitter account to argue with University of Minnesota students who want the school to divest from Israel investments.

According to the APP, Scaramucci told attendees yesterday to brace for politics in business, treat employees well and don't cut corners.

"I have found, and this was particularly true at the White House, that the people that are the backstabbers, and the people that are the carpers and the complainers and the biters and develop a level of paranoia are the ones that are a little insecure," Scaramucci said.

Good managers know how to make others feel confident about themselves, he said, according to the Asbury Park Press.

"Confident people don’t talk badly about other people, they don’t need to," he said. "The only time I’m talking about people badly is when they are hitting me. I never hit first."

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