How Trump's Women Twist Themselves to Please Him

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How does Anthony Scaramucci describe Donald Trump’s behavior toward women who work for him?

Anthony Scaramucci 0:00
The woman that Trump is going for is going to be subservient. And like everybody else is going to be more or less a lackey of his. And remember, people are transactions to Donald Trump. They're not people. He's a full-on misogynist. No question about that. It's almost an exaggeration. It's almost a male overbite. It's like a hyper masculinity to try to prove something to somebody. I look at him and I say, this guy's weird about sex, he's weird about women. I don't know what he is, but I think he's weird.
Joanna Coles 0:35
Now we have something very exciting and very special for you. It's a four-part series on Trump's women. Now we've debated what to call this, and we've decided that it should be a spin-off of Inside Trump's Head. So we're calling it Inside Trump's Women. And here to flesh out Trump's women for you. bring alive those characters that we really only see on Instagram. Is one of the Daily Beast's best writers, Nell Scovelt. But first, before we get to it, who better to ask for real insight into Trump's relationships with women than Anthony Scaramucci? He's former White House communications director, admittedly not for very long, but he spent a lot of time on the campaign trail with him and he's observed Trump, well, frankly, up close in more ways than one.
Joanna Coles 1:31
So, Anthony, what is Trump like to work for if you're a woman? It's hard not to notice that the people that have been ca fired from the cabinet, the only people who've been fired from the cabinet are all women. We saw Janine Pierrot getting yelled at by the president. Is he different to work for if you're a woman than if you're a man? Well,
Anthony Scaramucci 1:53
if you look like Mrs. Doubtfire, he's gonna treat you very differently than if you look like a sports illustrated model, right? So he's a very aesthetic guy, let's just be honest, right? So Mrs. Doubtfire can get along with him. Uh if you were to do it.
Joanna Coles 2:09
I didn't say that.
Anthony Scaramucci 2:10
Oh
Joanna Coles 2:11
I'm assuming that's the one. Or Linda McMahon, yeah. So if you're looking like Mrs. Daff fire,
Anthony Scaramucci 2:18
you're probably gonna be okay. Okay. If you if you you know your Pam Bondy, she didn't get fired for her looks. She got fired for her naivety. She actually thought that they were gonna release the Epstein files. She really b believed that. She was like, Well, Trump is like, hey, idiot. I would I was just campaigning on that. I'm in the Epstein files. We can't release the Epstein files. What the hell's wrong with you? Right? So, you know, it depends on what you're doing, right? So So Trump wants you to be a full on lap dog. And so Trump's attitude is you got here because of me. We won the presidency because of me. You had nothing to do with it. Even your campaign money had nothing to do with it. I dragged everybody here.
Anthony Scaramucci 2:58
And so you are at my back and call. You would do exactly what I say, exactly when I say it. Todd Blanche's got that memo. Okay. Susie Wiles has that memo. I mean, Susie Wiles dropped the diamond. I'm in the Vanity Fair article because she's got to go back to being a lobbyist at some point. So she'll she'll point to the Vanity Fair article. But but the truth of the matter is, if you're a Trump lackey in Trump two. You stay in business with Trump. He treats everybody with a level of disdain if they don't understand it's a hundred percent about him. And you get fired from there if you think it could be about the federal government, or you think it could be about the judicial process or the legislative process or the checks and balances.
Anthony Scaramucci 3:45
If you think it's about any of those things, probably
Joanna Coles 3:50
To get his attention you have to look a certain way, but obviously he's surrounded in at Mar-a-Lago with women who look that certain way. What what sort of personality traits does he find attractive?
Anthony Scaramucci 4:09
You know, I think he he emphasizes aesthetics. I'm not saying that uh, you know, that's necessarily right or wrong. I he's always telling I mean, sorta weird with men, I mean I think. You know, you're talking about uh Arnold Palmer Schlang. I mean it's sort of weird. And this guy's strong and handsome and that UFC fighters super muscular. I mean, I don't know. It sounds like a pretty repressed guy to me.

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