Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House Director of Communications in President Donald Trump’s first term, has said he believes his former boss is no longer the man he once knew “because he has gotten the power drug.”
Speaking to Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast Podcast, Scaramucci, 61, said the change in Trump has come about because, metaphorically speaking: “He’s smoked the ganja, the crack crystal of power. And he’s marveling at the fact that he can bully people that are powerful and they kowtow to him.”