Speaker
Anthony Scaramucci
Appearances over time
6 episodes
Episodes
6
202. Is Trump Rigging the World Cup?
201. Trump’s A Crypto Billionaire While Americans Are Getting Poorer
200. Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Will Backfire
199. White House Shouting Match: Is Trump Sabotaging His Own Party?
197. Vance Vs Hegseth: Who Takes the Fall for Trump’s Iran Deal?
196. Trump’s Iran Deal: One Big American Failure?
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Trump's annual financial disclosure ran 927 pages, compared to 11 for Obama and 7 for Biden, illustrating the unprecedented scale of his financial entanglements.
Trump's disclosure revealed at least $2.2 billion in assets, with hosts suggesting the real figure is likely much higher due to undisclosed offshore holdings.
Trump employed a pocket veto — simply not signing the bill — to avoid the embarrassment of an official veto being overridden by a veto-proof majority in Congress.
Anthony Scaramucci estimates Trump will ultimately release $300–$400 billion in frozen Iranian assets as part of any final deal.
A nurse faces a $50 fee for an early 401(k) withdrawal; a teacher gets audited for misreporting income; the president pays only a $200 STOCK Act fine for 21,000 unreported trades.
Anthony Scaramucci noted that the FIFA World Cup audience is roughly ten times larger than the American Super Bowl.
Scaramucci estimated the Iran war caused roughly a couple hundred billion dollars in direct costs and a $700 billion disruption to the global economy.
A Pew Research poll found only 29% of US adults are satisfied with how the country is going, with 69% unsatisfied.
Trump's disclosure included $86 million in media settlements: Meta paid $24.5M, Alphabet $22M, and CBS and ABC each paid $16M to Trump's library.
The maximum STOCK Act fine for a late or improper financial filing by a public official is just $200, a penalty critics call absurdly inadequate.
Only 19% of Americans think the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased by how the US has turned out; 77% say they would be disappointed.
Roughly 255,000 children are born in the U.S. each year to non-citizen parents; overturning birthright citizenship would have left them stateless.
Scaramucci claimed Trump, across six years as president, accounts for 28.1% of the United States' entire 250-year budget deficit.
A Fox News word-association poll found two-thirds of Americans chose negative words — failing, divided, struggling, corrupt — to describe the United States today.
Despite widespread pessimism, 81% of American voters say they still want to live in the United States.
Trump is a cue ball that smashes the Democrats into 15 different directions. Scaramucci's verdict is stark: until Democrats coordinate around one candidate and stop feeding internal ideological warfare, Trump will keep controlling them remotely — the same way Putin runs Trump.
JD Vance went on Bill Maher's show and got blistered — and Scaramucci, who dislikes Vance, gave him credit for it. AOC and Kamala Harris both declined invitations. The lesson: going into hostile territory and taking the heat is a political skill that Democrats have abandoned and that cost them 2024.
AT&T, the largest monopoly in American history, was sitting on the technology that created Netflix, Facebook, and the entire internet. It had no incentive to release it while charging $4 a minute for long-distance calls. Judge Harold Greene's 1984 breakup freed it all. The lesson: monopolies kill innovation, and today's tech giants are doing the same thing.
For the first time since the 1930s, America faces simultaneous low migration and near-record low birth rates. That combination shrinks the tax base, reduces the workforce, and heaps the cost of an ageing population onto fewer young workers — exactly the opposite of what the immigration crackdown's cheerleaders promise.
Einstein wrote to FDR offering to help build the atomic bomb — and America said yes. Anthony Scaramucci asks whether an increasingly xenophobic America would still attract that letter. If the next global crisis produces an Einstein, where will he or she write?
On America's 250th birthday, only 51% of adults believe the American dream still holds for them. Belief peaked in the 1950s and '60s, cratered in 2008, and has never recovered — a quiet crisis of national self-confidence that no parade or fireworks display can disguise.
Pew Research's 250th anniversary snapshot of America is brutal: only 29% are satisfied with the country's direction, 19% think the Founders would be pleased, and two-thirds reach for negative words when asked to describe the US. Yet 81% still want to live here.
The top 20% of Americans control 87% of the country's wealth. Scaramucci argues this isn't the result of hard work — it's a feedback loop between the ultra-rich and government, fuelled by Citizens United money buying politicians who then deliver tax cuts and corporate welfare.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham's verdict is unambiguous: no republic in history has survived without a middle class. The Pew data showing America's shrinking middle isn't just a sad statistic — it is, Katty Kay argues, a structural warning about the survivability of the American experiment itself.
The Democrats and Republicans are a duopoly — the Demo-publicans — who pay lip service to working Americans but offer no real policy solutions. Scaramucci's hope is a younger crop of data-dependent, less ideological politicians who will end Citizens United, limit gerrymandering, restore DOJ independence, and expand earned income tax credits.
Vance showed up at the Nixon Library to declare Watergate a 'nothing burger.' Katty Kay's read: he's pre-emptively minimising corruption so that whatever investigations follow the midterms look like a deep-state hit job rather than legitimate accountability — exactly what Trump has been saying about Nixon for 25 years.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed Trump two sweeping 6-3 immigration victories, ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and limiting asylum applications to those already on US soil. Together they could put roughly a million people on a path to deportation.
Katty Kay's advice to every Republican who has cleared their primary: you are now in the YOLO caucus. Distance yourself from the White House, raise your own money, and run on your own record. The president's approval is at rock bottom, Washington looks like crazy town, and your only path to reelection is to make voters forget you were ever associated with any of it.
After Trump's Capitol meltdown, Senate Majority Leader Jon Thune — tall, suited, stone-faced — turned and walked in the exact opposite direction of the president. No words needed. That body language is the most eloquent statement yet that the Republican Party's leadership has had enough.
Megyn Kelly told Haitian migrants to 'go back to fucking Haiti' on her show. Meanwhile, factory managers in Springfield were begging for more Haitian workers — punctual, drug-free, harder-working than native-born Americans, they said. The gap between the pundit class and economic reality on immigration has never been wider.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Government 46%
- Society & Culture 29%
- Business 7%
- History 7%
- News 7%
- Sports 4%
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