Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci may not be White House communications director any longer, but he doesn’t plan on giving up his prime time television slot anytime soon, according to a report from entertainment news site, TMZ.
The Mooch has disembarked from New York and is now in L.A., communicating with Hollywood producers who are interested in turning his ten-day stint as a Trump White House insider into a half-hour scripted comedy or a full-length motion picture (no doubt a comedy).
The production will, reportedly, feature a Wall Street bigwig who ditches his corporate investment job in Manhattan to take over a ragtag team of Washington insiders, at the behest of a President bent on “making America great again” (sound familiar?). Of course this “successful banker” will meet with the ire of longtime political hacks, who eventually oust him from power.
Mooch is, apparently, so serious about turning his rags-to-riches-to-rags story into a feature he even has two working titles, “10 Days in July,” and— in a play off Donald Trump’s signature line about reforming D.C. — “Attack of the Swamp Monsters.”
It’s all still in the planning stages, but you know Mooch is already casting for the production’s biggest role: himself. There’s no word yet on whether Mooch-alikes Joe Pesci or Ray Liotta have cleared their schedules to take on the project.
In all seriousness, Anthony Scaramucci has been surprisingly vocal since leaving the White House after barely a week, even though he was out of a job before he even officially took over for outgoing Press Secretary and Communications Director Sean Spicer. Never one to miss the opportunity to … er … forcefully opine on matters of public import, the Mooch has been vocal on a variety of subjects from senior White House advisor Steve Bannon’s fitness for office, to the finer points of financing federal programs.