Everything Anthony Scaramucci said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Scaramucci: Trump will never view tech CEOs or donors as friends
“You're not friends with Donald Trump. Let me give a news flash. If you've got a tech CEO listening, kiss his ass all you want, wait for him at the service entrance at Mar-a-Lago, write him checks, do whatever the hell you want. You're not friends with the guy.…”
Scaramucci: Appeasing Trump Will Not Protect Tech Leaders Like Mark Zuckerberg
“Let me give it, you know, Mark Zuckerberg a memo, you can do whatever you want to do, and you lay in front of them if you want, and the Washington Post can give up their editorial content. It's not going to matter. If he's going to come for you, he's coming fo…”
Scaramucci: Separating migrant children at the U.S. border is barbaric
“Doesn't reflect well on the American society, whether they're breaking the law, not breaking the law, don't separate people from their kids. Ok, that's a barbaric thing, and we're better than that as a society. Ok, so there's nobody can debate me on that, I ca…”
Scaramucci: Trump will not turn Elon Musk into an adversary
“But I did predict that Trump would never go after him. There wouldn't be a Pyrrhic demise to Elon like there was to Steve Bannon, or me, or Mark Esper, or General Kelly, because Elon's a loaded guy. And Trump got several hundred million dollars out of him to h…”
Scaramucci advises buying Bitcoin amid rising US deficit spending
“Well, first thing I'm going to say is buy Bitcoin. That's the first thing I'm going to say. And a lot of people that really analyze and study this understand why.”
Scaramucci: Deficit spending plus trade isolation will drive capital from US
“So, if you have big, beautiful spending, And you have an American Brexit at the same time where you're trying to isolate us from the rest of the world. You're going to cause capital movement on the margin to move away from the United States.”
Scaramucci: Reshoring iPhone production would make iPhones cost $3,500
“I want Apple explaining that you want to bring the iPhone back, great, it's going to cost 3500 dollars on iPhone.”
Scaramucci: US will probably hold Bitcoin on its fiscal balance sheet
“We'll probably end up having Bitcoin on the corporate, on the fiscal balance sheet of the United States.”
Scaramucci: Bitcoin will reach $1 million per coin
“I think it becomes an asset class.
I think it's a million dollars a coin, and I have a 20,000 dollar cost basis in it, and I'm going to hold it.”
Scaramucci bets firm and personal assets that crypto pays off by 2028
“If I stay invested and my long-term thesis is correct, my clients are going to be unbelievably well-rewarded, and this is probably a really good time to buy. I'm willing to bet, obviously, the firm and my personal assets that five years from now, we're going t…”
Scaramucci: Trump Is the Wrong Messenger to Lead the Republican Party
“I felt he was obviously the wrong messenger for the movement of the Republican Party. You've got smarter, younger, more effective people, more confident, less insecure people to take the mantle of leadership in the Republican Party.”
Scaramucci: CFIUS blocked the SkyBridge sale on dubious national security grounds
“The Genworth deal just gets approved by CFIUS, but the Skybridge deal doesn't, and it's not approved for national security reasons, ok?”
Scaramucci: I objected to Italian stereotyping inside the Trump White House
“I didn't like all the Italian stereotyping that was going on inside the White House, by the way. That's one thing I totally disliked. I didn't think that was fair.”
Scaramucci: The hedge fund industry is full of arrogant, selfish people
“There's a lot of rich, arrogant jerk-offs in the hedge fund industry. You personally don't need to be one. And I don't mean you, because you're actually not one, but I'm talking about your listeners. Don't be an arrogant, selfish hedge fund jerk-off.”
Scaramucci: U.S. held 26% of global GDP despite continuous trade deficits
“If what this gentleman was saying is a hundred percent true, we would have had a downward shift in our economic supremacy. We would have had a downward shift in the supremacy of the dollar, and we didn't have that. You've had, 1980 to today, 45 years, 26% of t…”
SkyBridge's FTX deal was priced at five times revenues
“I think in the transaction that we consummated with Sam, I think it was at five times revenues. That seemed to be where the market was at the time. I didn't ask for six times revenues. I didn't ask for five and a half times revenues. Seems like that seemed to …”
Sam Bankman-Fried paid $45M for 30% of SkyBridge with an 85% option
“He bought 30% of the company. It's in the paper now, so it's okay to talk about it. He paid forty-five million for 30% of the company. It was an understanding that he had a right over three years to buy 85% of the company at some point.”
Binance's CZ did not expect his FTT sale to completely collapse FTX
“And again, this is my personal opinion. I don't think CZ thought he was going to collapse FTX. I think he thought he was brushing Sam back. I think he was sending him a message that what you're doing is unsportsmanlike conduct, and the result of which I'm goin…”
Scaramucci is negotiating to buy back FTX's 30% stake in SkyBridge
“I'm in the process of negotiating with the bankruptcy people the repurchase of the 30% stake that Sam bought in the company”
Scaramucci: Wall Street is the essential arterial system of capitalism
“Wall Street is the arterial structure of the capitalist system. It's literally the design of where capital can flow. You want to go into fracking, you come to Wall Street, you raise money. You want to build a new search engine, your name is Google, you come to…”
Scaramucci: Wall Street will remain public pariahs for another 15 years
“To my Wall Street brethren, brothers and sisters that are listening to this podcast, I got bad news for you got about another 10 to 15 years to go, Before the cycle will swing back and you'll fall back into favor, but you're still going to be treated like pari…”
Scaramucci: Rising interest rates will trigger a hedge fund renaissance
“The macro trade of just being long, everything is going away. The micro trade of security analytics, hedge fund investing, looking for strategies that reduce volatility, or have some level of non-correlation will come back into vogue. And so, for me, I think t…”
Scaramucci: Delaying firing an employee is never the right decision
“Waiting to fire somebody has never been the right decision”
Scaramucci: Asset management behaves like a cyclical fashion business
“Well, my pet peeve is that a lot of people think we're in the investing business, but I sort of think we're in the fashion business, and so the skirts come up and down in our industry, so you have to be very, very careful about that”