Thread by @CarlosLozadaWP

This is a real thing that exists

"It was eleven days, not ten as widely reported (I'm not going to let the media steal almost ten percent of my White House experience!)" -- from first page of new @Scaramucci book TRUMP: THE BLUE-COLLAR PRESIDENT

"It was Donald Trump himself who ultimately gave me my eleven days of fame in the white House; and it was Donald Trump who had to toss me out, like an empty Big Mac box, when the time came."

"I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone who asks about my eleven days in the White House: it was the twelfth day that mattered. That was the day I got up off the mat again, just like this great country of ours is in the process of doing."

"If I learned one thing about talking with reporters, it's that most of them would double-cross their mothers for a story that goes viral."

Scaramucci as a young reader:
"Because of where I'm from, and Long Island's role in what some say is the greatest American novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of my early favorite authors. Along with Gatsby, I devoured Tender is the Night and This Side of Paradise."

"I've probably read two thousand books cover to cover in my lifetime; I average about sixty a year. You never know when something good will become an obsession."

"A need for respect in a man like Donald Trump can be a very powerful force. It can drive you all the way to the White House. When people ask me if Donald Trump wants to be loved or feared, I tell them neither. He wants to be respected."

Scaramucci admits he "had to have some strings pulled" to get into Tufts, "and then rely on my own sparkling personality."

Scaramucci weaves in his life story with Trump's: "While I was plotting my climb into the moneyed class at Tufts, Donald Trump was quickly ascending to the top of New York real estate development. He was also making a name for himself as a champion of the regular people."

Scaramucci tells the story of Trump and the Wollman Rink project in glowing terms, which I've realized is required in any book by or about Donald Trump...

"Running for president is like riding a wave. You've got to find the right one, then hang on for long enough to reach the shore."

"I've been on a pretty good wave myself. It wasn't going to deliver me to the White House, but it got me a good score on my LSAT and accepted to six out of the seven law schools I applied to."
(Scaramucci does not mention the offending school.)

"Twain is one of those figures who seems to get smarter the longer he stays dead. Just like Yogi Berra, new phrases of his appear from beyond the grave."

Scaramucci on the Trump Doctrine: "Unlike its cousin, the Bush Doctrine, this hasn't been proclaimed formally or written down...But it does comprise a few main tenets, the first and most important being that the United States will no longer be pushed around."
cc: @JeffreyGoldberg

"I was accepted to Harvard Law on Ronald Reagan's seventy-fifth birthday, February 6, 1986."

"I found myself self-editing Harvard out of my interviews. In one, I even lamented the fact that I felt like I wasn't allowed to tell people I went to Harvard Law anymore....Screw that. I'm proud to have attended Harvard, and I'll tell anyone I want."

"I'd read The Art of the Deal in the summer of '88 when I was a summer associate at a law firm.... When I read his book I experienced a turning point. Although I might not have been able to build a tower, I wanted to dream big like he did."

"I might have been wearing a suit and tie, but at heart I was still a Guido. I was still the kid in the Camaro wearing chains and an open shirt that had the Playboy bunny insignia on the chest -- you know, where the Polo guy goes?"

"In 1992, I made $260,000 at Goldman Sachs. I was twenty-seven. The following year, I was given a $100,000 bump in pay, and I didn't think it was good enough. Sounds like I was getting a little full of myself, right?"

"When I got into trouble working in the White House, stories ricocheted around the Twitterverse that I was high on coke. Not true. Fake news. I'll take a lie detector test if you don't believe me."

Scaramucci on Trump as boss: "He hates firing people himself, and he cares deeply about each one of his employees. I've often said that if he does have one fatal flaw, it's that he's too trusting."

And the knives start coming out...
"Donald Trump usually assumes that people have the best of intentions until he's given incontrovertible evidence that they don't. It's what allowed him to trust shady figures like Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus for as long as he did."

"The first time I met Donald Trump I was thirty-two, and I was awestruck.... For a blue-collar guy, working in finance, who wanted to rise through the economic classes and reach for the Gold Ring, Mr. Trump was the Great Gatsby."

"Part of the president's immigration policy is a leftover from Bannon's reign as presidential advisor and strategist. Some strategist. His policy would go on to produce photos of hysterical small children after being separated from their parents.... Bannon 'the brain,' my ass."

Scaramucci calls McCain a "bona fide American hero" before explaining Trump's 'captured' line:
"It should be noted, however, that Senator McCain was not sick with brain cancer when Mr. Trump made the remark. Furthermore, McCain had been a staunch detractor of the Trump campaign."

Scaramucci on Trump's Charlottesville remarks:
"His refusal to say what the media and the Left wanted him to didn't mean he was siding with the neo-Nazis. He just wasn't going to let anyone dictate his words."

Scaramucci says people in Washington swallow two pills: one is "an anti-friendship pill." The other is the "power-as-an-aphrodisiac pill. It's like Viagra except that it stiffens your need to be important."

"Sounds like I'm a little bitter, right?.... I recognize now that the bitterness comes from my direct experience working with dishonest and unscrupulous people such as Priebus, Bannon, and Spicer."

Chapter Seven of Scaramucci's book is titled "THE CALL"
cc: @RyanLizza

"I was politically naive to the twentieth power. No other moment illustrates this better than my phone call to Ryan Lizza."

"The difference between my relationship with President Trump and many people in his orbit is that I've never been a sycophant."
--A sentence that Scaramucci writes in a book that is an ode to Donald Trump

"I knew I wasn't going to have the White House job forever. I just thought I would have lasted longer than a quart of milk. I still wonder what would have happened if the president had give me another chance."

(And that seems like a fine place to finish this thread. Adios.)