--- title: Anthony Scaramucci Curses in Interview on Reince Priebus description: Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci used graphic language to describe feuds with Trump Administration staffers canonical: https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-27T22:33:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:46:21.878Z article:section: Politics og:title: The White House’s New Communications Director Just Got Very Graphic og:description: Scaramucci used graphic language to describe feuds with Trump Administration staffers og:url: https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf44b3cc1b93f117e/6988d784bc6cfc34dc3e26cd/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The White House’s New Communications Director Just Got Very Graphic twitter:description: Scaramucci used graphic language to describe feuds with Trump Administration staffers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf44b3cc1b93f117e/6988d784bc6cfc34dc3e26cd/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The White House’s New Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Just Got Very Graphic by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 27, 2017 10:33 PM UTC  White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci speaks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017. White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci speaks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017.Tasos Katopodist—AFP/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 27, 2017 10:33 PM UTC Incoming White House Communications Director [Anthony Scaramucci](http://time.com/4876158/anthony-scaramucci-tweet-reince-priebus/) used graphic language to describe his feuds with other Trump Administration staffers in an interview Wednesday. Speaking to the [_New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon), the former hedge-fund manager said that White House Chief of Staff [Reince Priebus](http://time.com/4676109/reince-priebus-donald-trump-russia-campaign/) had “c–k-blocked” him for six months, an apparent [reference to reports](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary-240802) that Priebus had worked to prevent him from being hired for other jobs in the White House. He also indirectly criticized Trump chief strategist [Steve Bannon](http://time.com/4876765/steve-bannon-shadow-press-office/) while claiming that he was not interested in seeking media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c–k,” he said. Scaramucci has been [publicly feuding with Priebus](http://time.com/4877141/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-reince-priebus-jeff-sessions/) in recent days, speciously accusing him of leaking a publicly available financial disclosure form and calling into CNN to dress him down. **Read More:** [A Brief History of Cursing in American Politics](http://time.com/4225553/donald-trump-cursing-swearing-president/) In the interview, Scaramucci also called Priebus “a f-cking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.” Scaramucci addressed the interview on Twitter Thursday evening, saying “I sometimes use colorful language.” > [](https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/890699212022796288) President Trump faced criticism for his use of swear words on the campaign trail, leading to [a memorable ad](http://time.com/4224734/donald-trump-jeb-bush-right-to-rise-ad/) from a super PAC backing former Republican rival Jeb Bush. Trump later vowed not to use “foul language” on the campaign trail. Since his election, Democratic officials have also increasingly [taken up the cursing habit](http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politics/tom-perez-swearing-trump/index.html), with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez saying that Trump “doesn’t give a s–t about health care” and Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand saying if lawmakers aren’t helping people “we should go the f–k home.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/"},"headline":"The White House’s New Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Just Got Very Graphic","datePublished":"2017-07-27T22:33:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:46:21.878Z","description":"Scaramucci used graphic language to describe feuds with Trump Administration staffers","url":"https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/","keywords":["White House","Reince Priebus","onetime","anthony scaramucci"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf44b3cc1b93f117e/6988d784bc6cfc34dc3e26cd/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf44b3cc1b93f117e/6988d784bc6cfc34dc3e26cd/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus-expletives","caption":"White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci speaks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017.","creditText":"Tasos Katopodist—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/","name":"The White House’s New Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Just Got Very Graphic"}}]}] ```