Tony From The Block

Anthony Scaramucci is back. And he’s still stabbing his enemies from the front.

- Nicole Goodkind

ANTHONY SCARAMUC CI IS DUE AT FOX Business in five minutes, and he’s nowhere to be found. I’m standing in the midtown Manhattan lobby of the Fox complex when, 30 seconds to airtime, he swoops in, hand in hand with his wife, Deidre, a thin blond wearing Balenciaga heels and brown leather leggings.

Lunch went late at their social club, Scaramucci explains. I want to ask about how all this squares with the title of his new book, Trump, the BlueCollar President, but there’s no time. We’re whisked through security as makeup artists descend upon him. Producers shout his nickname. Lights, camera, action: The Mooch is back.

More than a year after setting the record for the shortest-serving White House communications director in history, Scaramucci is making the rounds to promote his new book, which details his life growing up on working-class Long Island alongside the wealth of New Yorkers like Donald Trump.

Writing it, he says, was a form of therapy after his bombastic 11-day stint taking reporters’ questions in the White House briefing room. His firing in July 2017 came after he spoke with a journalist on the record and called then–chief of staff Reince Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic,” among other, cruder things. It was classic Mooch. He now says he never fit into the backstabbing culture of Washington. “I’m more of a front-stabbing person,” he famously declared, just before his ouster.

And if there was any doubt that America’s forgotten him, it’s extinguished after the Fox Business taping. We leave the building and walk past a large group of union protesters. A middle-aged man, with a thick Long Island accent, shouts at him: “Mr. Mooch, I love ya, brother! I love ya! I don’t care what Joy Behar says!”