Six days after pledging to shake things up in his new role as White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci made good on that promise when he picked up the phone and gave an obscenity-laced interview to the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza.Although he later apologized for his “colorful language,” Scaramucci (aka The Mooch) accused White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of being a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac” and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon of curating media attention as part of an effort to “try to suck [his] own cock.”But the Mooch — who reportedly refers to himself in the third person and to Priebus as “Reince Penis” — isn’t the only member of the Trump administration who likes to talk smack. Since the campaign, several Trump associates have attempted to kneecap one another often using profane language both behind closed doors and in front of the press.Here are some of the best of the worst reported insults:Steve Bannon on House Speaker Paul Ryan: “A limp-dick motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.” (The Heritage Foundation is a conservative group linked to many of Trump’s allies, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.)Bannon to White House aide and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner: “a Democrat,” and allegedly behind his back a “globalist” and a “cuckservative.”Bannon on former Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who was then refusing to hold on-camera briefings:** “Sean got fatter.”**Former Trump adviser Roger Stone called former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski “Loserdowski” and “the snake.”Mark Corallo, former spokesperson for Trump’s private legal team, on Trump himself: “Dear Mr. President, this is worse than just ‘bad optics. It’s sleazy. You could start draining the swamp by removing your in-laws.” (He tweeted this before he took a job with Team Trump.)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Trump’s longtime friend Christopher Ruddy: “Ruddy is nothing more than a journalist who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”Ruddy on Spicer: “It is a sad commentary that Sean Spicer spends so much of his time objecting to my comments at the same time he has done such a poor job in defending the president and promoting his many accomplishments.”Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, apparently about the White House: “This is the last place in the world I wanted to be.”Trump himself may be to blame for his associates’ tendency to disparage one another — according to reports, aides say his management style often involves pitting underlings against each other. Plus, Trump himself has long dabbled in publicly shaming his supposed friends and employees.Spicer reportedly stayed off-camera for his later briefings, which Trump once purportedly called “terrible,” to avoid his boss’s criticism. And in the past few weeks, Trump has taken to publicly deriding Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him “beleaguered” and “very weak” — comments that Sessions revealed Thursday were “kind of hurtful.”Perhaps Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it best in Thursday’s press briefing, when she explained, “I think the president, as always, enjoys healthy competition and conversation.”Alex Thompson contributed reporting.
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