Anthony Scaramucci gave a must-read interview to Vanity Fair in which he elaborated about his 10 days working in the Trump White House.

Said Scaramucci: “I want you to imagine the worst person that you’ve met on Wall Street, the most ruthless and the most diabolical. That’s the best person in Washington. That’s the Eagle Scout of Washington.”

On how White House chief of staff Reince Priebus — who he called “Rancid Penis” — promise to help him land a job: “He did say this because he’s a Washingtonian. That’s what they do to you, they say, ‘golly gee’ to your face and they act like Richie Cunningham to your face. They’re Richie Cunningham and they’re Opie from The Andy Griffith Show, but they’re the fucking Sith Lord behind your back. They’re hitting you with a lightsaber behind your back.”

On Steve Bannon: “I helped Bannon through the three months that he was on the campaign, and we had a good relationship. But Bannon turns on me, because Bannon is ultimately railing against the swamp, but he’s actually a cock of the swamp. He’s the creature from the Black Lagoon, Bannon. He acts more swamp-like than any person that’s ever become a Washingtonian. So for all of his railing on the swamp, he is literally the pig in George Orwell’s Animal Farm that stands on his two legs the minute he gets power.”

His final takeaway: “I learned that the swamp is probably a gold-plated cesspool with no drain. You understand what I’m saying? You can’t drain the fucking thing. It’s a gold-plated cesspool, and you got cesspool operators in there that know how to slow down disruptors like Donald Trump.”

Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications chief who was forced out after just 11 days on the job, told the Associated Press that he remains in close touch with the White House.

He said that although he has not spoken to President Trump in over a month, he talks to members of the president’s inner circle “regularly” and sees himself working with Trump again in the future.

Ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Stephen Colbert that “if it were up to me” adviser Stephen Bannon would be fired.

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Trump’s reaction to the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, ABC News reports.

Said Scaramucci: “I wouldn’t have recommended that statement. I think he would have needed to have been much harsher… With the moral authority of the presidency, you have to call that stuff out.”

Scaramucci went on to criticize the influence of the website Breitbart and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon saying that there’s “this sort of ‘Bannon-bart’ influence” in the White House that he thinks “is a snag on the president.”

The New Yorker Radio Hour has audio excerpts of Ryan Lizza’s phone call with ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.

“Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job, according to a draft of a memo he planned to send to White House staff,” BuzzFeed reports.

From the memo: “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable.”

Also from the memo: “No more threats about leaking and internal game playing – anyone who takes actions that do not serve the President will be dismissed – period.”

Scaramucci confirmed that he plans “an off-West Wing communications shop with the sole purpose of helping the President.” He added that “you’ll be hearing more about it next week.”

“Anthony Scaramucci lost more than a job at the White House: He lost the chance to delay paying millions of dollars in taxes,” CNN reports.

“Scaramucci’s lawyer said Tuesday that he will pay capital gains tax when he completes the sale of his investment company, SkyBridge Capital. Government employees can seek permission to defer that tax when they sell investments to avoid conflicts of interest.”

“What I’m going to do is I’m going to eliminate everyone on the comms team and we’ll start over.”

— White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, in an interview with the New Yorker last week, perhaps foreshadowing his own demise.

“Pity poor Anthony Scaramucci: reportedly getting divorced, sacked from his job after a mere 10 days — and now there’s an erroneous report that he’s dead,” the Washington Post reports.

“The blink-and-you-missed-him former White House communications director is listed as deceased in the new Harvard Law School alumni directory, which arrived in alums’ mailboxes the very week that “The Mooch” became the most talked-about guy in politics. An asterisk by the 1989 graduate’s name indicates that he was reported dead since the last directory, which was published in 2011.”

Anthony Scaramucci’s wife demanded a divorce three weeks ago, while she was nine months pregnant, sources told the New York Post.

“Deidre Scaramucci, 38, fed up with her three-year marriage to the new White House communication director, filed divorce papers on July 6… On Monday, while Anthony was in West Virginia with President Trump for the Boy Scouts Jamboree, Deidre gave birth to the couple’s baby boy James. As of Friday evening, a full four days after delivery, her 53-year-old husband had yet to meet his newborn son.”

“Anthony Scaramucci seems plenty busy with his duties as communications director for President Donald Trump’s White House, but apparently he’s got time enough to help make an upcoming HBO movie.”

“The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Scaramucci, when he’s not trading inappropriate barbs with hostile reporters or former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, is co-executive producing a TV movie based on disgraced football coach Joe Paterno.”