“Anthony Scaramucci, who was quickly terminated (11 days) from a position that he was totally incapable of handling, now seems to do nothing but television as the all time expert on “President Trump.” Like many other so-called television experts, he knows very little about me.....,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

“....other than the fact that this Administration has probably done more than any other Administration in its first 2 1/2 years of existence. Anthony, who would do anything to come back in, should remember the only reason he is on TV, and it’s not for being the Mooch!” he continued in a follow-up tweet.

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Scaramucci responded to Trump’s tweet on Sunday with a tweet of his own, writing, “For the last 3 years I have fully supported this President. Recently he has said things that divide the country in a way that is unacceptable. So I didn’t pass the 100% litmus test. Eventually he turns on everyone and soon it will be you and then the entire country.”

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Oh. You’re just now discovering this man is divisive and stoking the flames of a race war?

Sadly, Scaramucci stops short of actually calling Trump a racist or a white nationalist, even going so far as to tell someone responding to him on Twitter that Trump isn’t a white nationalist and claiming to another that Trump doesn’t enable white nationalism, “[b]ut he should do more to strongly denounce it. He is trying to be super cute with his words to trigger the media and his detractors but it isn’t working and it is having a corrosive effect.”

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Semantics and being afraid to call Trump what he actually is aside, Scaramucci was rightly called out by a number of people who wanted to know why he was just now coming to terms with his leader’s issues.

“To those asking, “what took so long?” You’re right. I tried to see best in @realDonaldTrump based on private interactions and select policy alignment. But his increasingly divisive rhetoric—and damage it’s doing to [the] fabric of our society—outweighs any short-term economic gain,” he wrote on Twitter.

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In other words, “I was cool with it as long as there was something in it for me, but now that there isn’t, let me get my coins (and this media attention) some other way.”

Because that is the Republican way.