Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said many Americans were disappointed in President-elect Trump's victory on Wednesday morning.
“I think today is a sad day for a lot of people, you know, they're talking about non-white immigrants. [in the] The United States is really in an us-versus-them relationship, which is dehumanizing in a way,” Scaramucci told CNN's John Berman.
“And hopefully, when he assumes that leadership role again, I hope he can take over that leadership role.” [a] Stop and think that we need to come together as a country and that there needs to be a healing process in this country,” he added.
Trump, Scaramucci's boss during his short-lived tenure, defeated Vice President Harris in the 2024 presidential election on Wednesday, securing another four years in the White House, according to projections from Decision Desk Headquarters. Scaramucci became a critic of Trump after he was fired from the White House in 2017.
Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk received congratulations from Scaramucci, who also said his former boss' campaign had been “well executed.”
“John, he won the popular vote, that's democracy, so he's — he's my president, he's your president, and I wish him the best, but I is worried, because the rhetoric he was using in his campaign, if he was using it in the election, implementing that rhetoric would be good for some people, but it would be good for America as a whole. It's not good for him and that worries me,” Scaramucci said.
Late last month, he said he thought Trump would lose this year's election, and Harris said, “I think he's going to win because he has the money, he has the organization, and I think there are better people in this country.” He said he believed that.
President Trump told supporters early Wednesday that the United States had given him and his party a “powerful and unprecedented mission.”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
