New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci kicked off his first full day in his new job with an interview on Breitbart’s Sirius XM radio station, an outlet President Trump favors because of its positive news coverage of him, telling the conservative news outlet that he is looking to restore “fairness” by the “mainstream media.”
The interview started with Scaramucci asking Breitbart political editor and radio host Matthew Boyle to come work for him at the White House.
“Did you send your job application form in yet, Matt? I was looking for it yesterday when I started. I didn’t see it. Do you need my email, so I can get your resume over here?” Scaramucci asked.
“Anthony, I’m honored. Maybe we can talk later about it,” Boyle responded and pivoted back to questions.
Boyle’s employer, Breitbart, is seen as an ally to the Trump administration.
Scaramucci said he wants to “refine” the administration’s message and turn to outlets besides traditional media to publicize it.
“We have enough outlets whether it’s Breitbart, the president’s social media tweet-feed, all of the different apparatus[es] that we have where people will allow us to deliver our message to the American people unfiltered,” he said.
“My goal is to continue to penetrate through that shell and hopefully over time, too … to see if we can do something to de-escalate some element of that media bias and see if we can, you know, get a little bit more objectivity and fairness in the system.”
The 53-year-old Long Island native also said he came to work for Trump because of an epiphany he had in Albuquerque, N.M., during one of Trump’s first campaign stops.
He said he realized he was building his own wealth at the cost of others.
“It was the president that showed me — who grew up in a middle-class area like that — what was actually going on in my hometown,” Scaramucci said. “Matt, I was spending too much time trying to spiral my way up into the global elite. You know, I went to some fancy schools, and then I worked at Goldman [Sachs], and then I was trying to make myself some money to become financially independent, and I missed it.”
Scaramucci credited that experience as “one of” the reasons he is working “to help the president help those people.”
“Before I came on the show this morning, [Trump] just called me from Air Force One. He was with Steven Mnuchin. We’re running a couple of simultaneous tracks: fix the healthcare situation, reform the tax code, and start to set up the manufacturing building blocks of success that can move the income, the real income numbers up for these people,” he said.
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He referred to a whiteboard listing Trump’s campaign promises that is posted in White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s office. Bannon is the former CEO of Breitbart.
“We have a list of campaign promises that are up on Steve Bannon’s wall, and we’re going — we’re going right through those campaign promises so that we can tell the American people that we’re citizen politicians. We’re citizen public servants. We’re not career politicians or establishment players that just want to sit in Washington and milk the system,” Scaramucci said.
