In an administration not known for its subtlety, no comet soared higher,
burned brighter, or flamed out more spectacularly than Anthony
Scaramucci. For eleven days (not ten, as widely reported, he'll tell
anyone who'll listen) he ran the most important communications
department in the world, the White House's. By the end of his short
tenure -- several of the most tumultuous and formative days of the Trump
administration -- he'd gone from a fairly well known on-air surrogate
for the president to a household name, "the Mooch."
The rise and fall of the Mooch, which riveted the nation, unfolded like
a Shakespearean play directed by Martin Scorsese. In his own inimitable
voice, Anthony reveals the juicy details behind his stormy term as White
House communications director. He holds nothing back and spares no one's
feelings-including those of the country's most powerful people.
If political movements are best understood through a single human life,
then there is no better life to tell the story of Donald Trump's rise in
America than the Mooch's.
From Long Island Newsday paperboy, with the largest route in Port
Washington, to Master of the Universe, as Tom Wolfe characterized his
kind in Bonfire of the Vanities, Anthony's life was the embodiment of
the American Dream. By his own admission, however, he became so involved
in his high-octane career and life that he forgot his working-class
roots. He wasn't the only one to ignore the working class. There were
neighborhoods like the one he grew up in throughout the country filled
with deflated, unemployed, or underpaid people, ignored by elites and
politicians-until Donald Trump came along.
It was only when Anthony joined the Donald Trump for President campaign
as a surrogate and economic advisor that his eyes were opened to the
plight of our country's middle class. It took a billionaire real estate
developer who lived in a tower on Fifth Ave to show him what had
happened to the neighborhood in which he'd grown up and communities like
it throughout America. It was then that Anthony realized that Donald
Trump and his economic policies were the best bet for our country's
future.
A romp of a read, by turns hilarious, touching, and inspiring, Trump,
the Blue-Collar President is sure to be among the best books written
about the Trump presidency.
