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Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Sunday morning that President Donald Trump is "thinking about pardoning nobody," responding to questions about the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election_ by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Jul 28, 2017 4:51 PM UTC by [Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly Jul 28, 2017 4:51 PM UTC It’s not _Saturday Night Live_, but [Mario Cantone](http://ew.com/article/2016/10/10/morgan-spurlock-founding-fathers-voting-psa/) channeled the newly minted White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, on Comedy Central’s [_The President Show_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/23/comedy-central-donald-trump-president-show-more-episodes/) Thursday night — and he crushed it. “I’d like to introduce you to my favorite new team member who I will eventually betray, Anthony Scaramucci,” [Anthony Atamanuik](http://ew.com/tv/2017/04/25/president-show-trump-impression/) said as President Donald Trump. Cantone then mocked Scaramucci’s unhindered tirade published in [_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) and his threats of firing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. “I’m gonna fire so many people,” Cantone’s The Mooch declared. “I don’t know who it’s gonna be, Reince, but I’m gonna get to the bottom of the leaks in the White House. Do you hear me, Reince? There’s an old Italian expression my mother used to use when somebody hurt her. She’d say, ‘Stick the umbrella up my a— but don’t open it.’” A reporter called out Scaramucci in the sketch for changing his political stances after being pro-choice and pro-gun control. “Are you talking to me or him?” The Mooch responded, pointing to Trump. “Because we both did that,” Atamanuik’s POTUS chimed in. Melissa McCarthy has been playing Sean Spicer, the now ex White House Press Secretary, on _SNL_ to great effect, but [Spicer’s departure](http://ew.com/news/2017/07/21/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary/) from the gig raises questions about her future as the character. The sketch comedy series is currently on hiatus, so perhaps _The President Show_ can fill the void. Watch Cantone’s impersonation above. _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/28/mario-cantone-scaramucci-the-president-show/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ## Transcript The president's thinking about pardoning nobody, because it has been coming up a lot. There's an undercurrent of nonsensical stuff. The truth of the matter is that the president's not gonna have to pardon anybody because the Russian thing is a Nonsensical thing. I was there early on in the campaign. I didn't have any interactivity with Russians. I didn't see anybody have any interactivity with Russians. And there's a lot of disinformation out there. Somebody said to me yesterday, and I won't tell you who, that if the Russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those emails, you would have never seen it. You would have never had any evidence of them. Meaning that they're super confident in their deception skills and hacking. My point is, all of the information isn't on the table yet. I don't know who this anonymous person is that said that if the Russians had actually done it, we wouldn't have been able to detect it. [ CROSSTALK ] How about it was the President, Jay ?. Okay, it's the consensus of the intelligence community. I talked to him yesterday. [ CROSSTALK ] He called me from Air Force One, and he basically said to me, hey, maybe they did it, maybe they didn't do it. I didn't know about the meeting but what I don't like about the way the thing was handled from a communications and strategy perspective. 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