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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: 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: 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…”
Scaramucci: Donald Trump Is Driven to Prove Himself Against Elites
“But the difference between Long Island and guys like Trump is we're comfortable outsiders. I don't mind. I can't get into certain country clubs. They probably would want me to landscape their greens as opposed to put on them. Totally fine by me. Don't care. Gu…”
Scaramucci: Fixing the US deficit with PAYGO rules would take 20 years
“You could slow the growth, and you could reimpose the pay-as-you-go legislation from the 19 nineties, and it would take about 20 years, and you could bring the deficit down.”
Scaramucci: Companies evade US tariffs via Vietnam and Mexico assembly
“There's a lot of tariff washing, right? They're sending the stuff to Vietnam. It's getting completed Vietnam. It gets sent over. They're sending stuff, sending parts to Mexico. It's coming through NAFTA.”
Scaramucci discloses personal investments in xAI and SpaceX
“Full disclosure, I am a investor in XI, XAI. I was an investor in Twitter. It got converted into XAI. It's, you know, sort of Twitter merged with Grok now. I have a small investment in XAI prior to that. I have an investment in SpaceX, me personally.”