Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that morale at the White House is “terrible,” and that more staff would be leaving if the problem isn’t fixed.
“The morale inside the White House … the morale is terrible,” he said on CNN. “The reason why the morale is terrible is that the rule by fear and intimidation does not work in a civilian environment.”
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci: “The morale inside the White House… the morale is terrible… the rule by fear and intimidation does not work in a civilian environment… it’s messed up… I predict more departures.” https://t.co/mpMinDDNRH pic.twitter.com/PQgrMIbC9F— CNN (@CNN) March 1, 2018
“Here we are, it’s messed up, it’ll be up to the president to figure out if he wants to fix it or not,” he added. “If he doesn’t, it’ll stay like this and I predict more departures.”
Scaramucci spoke just hours after White House communications director Hope Hicks said she would leave her post soon. The White House said it had nothing to do with her testimony, in which she reportedly said she told “white lies” to cover for Trump, but several reports said Trump wasn’t happy with her performance.
Scaramucci also said he’s not happy with how chief of staff John Kelly is running the White House, and noted that he was fired after talking “a little bit of smack” about officials he was trying to fire during his brief stint in the White House. But he said Kelly didn’t seem nearly as interested in firing staffers like Rob Porter who were accused of domestic abuse.
“I talked a little bit of smack about two guys that we were trying to get rid of. He fires me in five seconds,” he said. “These guys are smacking up their wives, and he’s trying to figure out a way to keep them inside the White House. It’s very dishonest to me.”
