How The Mooch Got His MoJo Back (HBO)
This week, the Sin City calendar included the 10th Annual Skybridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT.
It’s your standard rich-meet-powerful confab, the kind of thing you’d find in Davos or Aspen. With one notable exception: this one is run by Anthony Scaramucci.
Skybridge is The Mooch’s investment company. At its height, say in 2017, SALT was pretty mega: former heads of state and a-list entertainers appeared on stage. But then Scaramucci’s fortunes changed in July 2017 when he took a job as President Trump’s White House Communications Director. That resulted in one of the all-time great Washington faceplants. Eleven days into the job, Scaramucci was fired, and his brand was beclowned.
The Mooch was alone. There was no SALT conference in 2018.
But a year is a long time, and the finance world has once again opened its arms to Scaramucci. SALT 2019 lacked some of the star power of previous years, but the Mooch did get some heavy-hitters: former White House chief of staff John Kelly was the keynote guest. Other panels included Chris Christie and Jeff Sessions.
Some Democrats showed up, too — former Obama advisers Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice were here. Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard stopped by, too.
At the center of it all was a man who many people in politics left for dead. But at SALT at least, The Mooch is very much alive.
“My issues with the president are not what he’s doing. He’s got some very very good policies actually working for average people,” Scaramucci told VICE News. “My issue with the president is how he’s doing it. It’s not what he’s doing.”
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This guy just embodies the phrase "born clown".
I need makeup. It’s cool now for a guy to wear makeup and hairpieces.
Neal Armstrong? Hmm 🤔
Just perfect, top names from politics meeting with top names from finance….no chance of bribery happening at all.
Mooch…Have you seen what the word means?
If he had it to start with…He wouldn't be THE MOOCH!
I like how he falsely thinks history will forget about the Trump administration. I think everyone will remember the time we lost our democracy.
This guy’s entire existence is a fraud
Vice why tf y’all promoting his fake ass?
nobody noticed when he said that the only democrat to go was Tulsi Gabbard. although he mispronounced.
Wrong again Mooch!
You're not suppose to imply that your boss will not be remembered. He is the GREATEST president in the history of USA. He is MOST INTELLIGENT person you will ever meet. He is the one and ONLY stable genius.
No wonder you got fired ehh !!
NEARLY SIX MINUTES OF PURE COMEDY GOLD .
Disgusting giving air time to these people.
Can someone tell me what the hell he's talking about at 5:15?
This guy is a great example of a rebound
dude Anthony is so transparently insecure, it's kinda sad, wanna give him a hug
losers
Very unconvincing answer at the end..
I hope you realize before you are on your death bed that there are so many other things that can make you authentically happy. Too bad you think the answer is always money..
I like Scaramucci
His pass from Tom Brady analogy was awful lol
Does anyone else find it insane and totally fitting that hedge fund managers that control 75% of the capital of the world and the politicians that are ostensibly supposed to regulate them all meet up at a CASINO? like….duh.
People need to stop hating on the mooch for his association with trump and realize the reality of the success he’s built in his life. The dudes an absolute tank at the end of the day and I respect the shit out of that
What a clown
This vice interview is so softball it's absurd…..
Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon so it's cool if our president is an embarrassing, ignorant oaf
#Logic
Lame puff piece Vice
A career politician..
Shitting for $$$
What about Buzz Aldrin?
He’s gonna try to run for POTUS after Trump
In the era of mass content, a major media outlet like Vice is forced to run stories like this one just to keep pace.
Listen to Scaramucci and other Republicans on how to spin what will benefit them the most. That is politics unfortunately.
Also, there’s this town hall meeting where Anthony actually asked Obama a question (he was someone in the crowd, I don’t remember the network that had this on) but he asked Obama what he was going to do to start going easier on Wall Street because he works on Wall Street and he felt as if he was a punching bag. Mind you, this is not long after 2008 he is asking this question and I really just wanted to scream at this guy like what a joke. He’s a Wall Street absolute blow hard with a trash attitude and mouth.
He never had it
Vice has made some really great documentaries in the past, however, Vice has lost that independence that really hooked me at first. Seeing this puff piece on a Trumpite just makes me sick. It used to be that Vice would focus on the small scale and fringe, but now it’s just hobnobbing with the corporate elites. Vice has lost its identity.
Greaseball