Obama shut down Scaramucci so hard in 2010 he's probably still shook
It's been less than a week since Anthony Scaramucci was announced as President Donald Trump's new White House Communications Director, but curious internet users have already started digging into the The Mooch's past.
In addition to some of Scaramucci's deleted anti-Trump tweets, Twitter sleuths also uncovered a particularly cringeworthy 2010 interaction between The Mooch and former POTUS Barack Obama, in which Scaramucci presses Obama about Wall Street. And let's just say The Mooch pretty much got owned...
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Back in 2010, when Scaramucci was a hedge fund manager, he appeared at an event that was televised on CNBC. After introducing himself and chatting hoops for a bit, Scaramucci asks Obama two questions, one of which was, "When are we going to stop whacking at the Wall Street piñata?"
"I represent the Wall Street community, we have felt like a piñata,” Scaramucci said, explaining that those on Wall Street feel Obama has been whacking them with a stick. "I certainly think that Main Street and Wall Street are connected, and if we’re going to heal the society and make the economy better, how are we going to work towards that, healing Wall Street and Main Street?” Scaramucci went on.
To Scaramucci's stick-wielding accusations, Obama simply remained calm and replied with grace.
"I have been amused over the last couple of years, this sense of somehow me beating up on Wall Street," he said, challenging Scaramucci by saying, "I think most people on Main Street feel they got beat up on."
When Scaramucci attempted to correct Obama following audience applause, the former POTUS firmly shut down the interruption and continued to spit some more facts.
"There’s a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street. That’s probably the majority, not the minority," Obama said.
Perhaps Scaramucci will have better luck bringing his Wall Street feels up with his new president.
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