Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci sharply attacked former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, calling him a dangerous political force whose intelligence masks what he called a toxic ideological agenda.

Scaramucci’s Attack On Bannon

In a sharply worded post on X, Scaramucci did not hold back his personal or political disdain. "Steve Bannon is the worst human being you can meet," Scaramucci wrote, before offering a more complex assessment of his former colleague's skills.

Scaramucci conceded that Bannon is "charismatic, well read, conversant in history, and genuinely intelligent in certain ways." But he paired that acknowledgment with a biting insult, writing, "But God made him so ugly in order to protect civilization from him."

The post stemmed from Scaramucci's interview on "We The Fifth," in which he cast Bannon's intelligence as a tool to legitimize isolationist and nationalist ideas in American politics.

Old White House Feud Turns Ideological

The remarks reflect long-running animosity between the two men, who briefly overlapped during President Donald Trump's first administration. Scaramucci's turbulent 11-day tenure as White House communications director imploded in 2017 after a profanity-laced interview with The New Yorker, in which he vulgarized Bannon's efforts to build a personal media brand off the strength of the president.

While their earlier clashes focused on West Wing infighting and media exposure, Scaramucci's latest critique targeted Bannon's political philosophy. He described Bannon as someone "who wants to drag this country back to the 1890s."

According to Scaramucci, Bannon's political playbook has three core goals: to "dismantle free trade," "push black and brown people out," and "manufacture everything domestically behind walls."

Bannon's Intelligence Seen As Political Threat

Scaramucci warned that Bannon's intellectual aptitude makes his nationalist agenda especially potent. "He is one of the most dangerous people in American politics," Scaramucci wrote, "precisely because he's smart enough to make bad ideas sound serious."

Scaramucci has made similar warnings before. In a PBS Frontline interview, he said he had not fully understood at the time "how dangerous Steve Bannon actually is." He has also argued that his experience inside Trump's transition and early White House orbit convinced him that Bannon's political apparatus posed a serious threat.

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