Published on Aug 15, 2017 
 
 Front-stabber Anthony Scaramucci believes Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon has his own motives. 
 
 
 
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 "I'm not allowed to joke anymore, I've learned that," Scaramucci told Stephen Colbert after telling the host he was adding the show's writers to his "kill list." 
 
 Just one day after breaking his silence with George Stephanopoulos in his first televised interview since leaving his White House post, Anthony Scaramucci sat down with none other than The Late Show's Stephen Colbert on Monday night. 
 
 Scaramucci's first remark was to jokingly tell Colbert he's added the show's writers to his "kill list," to which Colbert responded: "So you're comedically threatening to kill people who work for me?" 
 
 "I'm not allowed to joke anymore, I've learned that," Scaramucci said. 
 
 "This is on the record, this is being recorded right now," continued Colbert, referring to Scaramucci's now-infamous phone call with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, which Scaramucci contends was supposed to be off the record. 
 
 Scaramucci lightly confronted the host about previous coverage and jokes about Scaramucci while at the White House. "You guys have been super hard on me and you've been super tough on [Trump]," he told Colbert, which began a contentious discussion about pitying Trump because of his "tough" position as president. 
 
 In the interview, during which he repeatedly referred to his guest as "The Mooch," Colbert directly asked Scaramucci if he was "brought in just to get rid of" Reince Priebus, who was ousted from his White House post as chief of staff only three days before Scaramucci himself left. 
 
 "I don't want to say it that way," he said, dodging the question. 
 
 "Was it part of your job?" Colbert pushed. "Say it like The Mooch," he added, to chants of "Mooch" (or boos, but Scaramucci decided "Mooch" was better) from the audience. 
 
 "So The Mooch from Long Island would say there's no love lost there," Scaramucci told him. "The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is that we were actually pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC, but once I became part of the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial." 
 
 Colbert also asked The Mooch if Steve Bannon should "be gone in a week" for being an alleged "leaker." 
 
 "If it was up to me, he would be gone," Scaramucci said, "but it's not up to me," stressing that it was President Donald Trump's decision. He also told Colbert: "Whatever you think about me, I was pretty open about how I felt about people." 
 
 Scaramucci, admitting that he was fired from the White House rather quickly ("I thought I’d last longer than a carton of milk"), told Colbert that he would do "absolutely nothing" differently if he were to do it all again. 
 
 Colbert nodded to the taped conversation in his announcement of Scaramucci's appearance, which he tweeted last week: "On Monday 8/14 Anthony Scaramucci will be my guest on @colbertlateshow. This is just a heads up for our censors to get ready! #themooch." 
 
 When Scaramucci left his post after only 11 days, Colbert joked on his show that "the front-stabber has been back-stabbed," which Scaramucci ran with in his own joking tweets leading up to his appearance on the CBS show. "I am bringing @StephenAtHome a professionally monogrammed front stabbing knife from the @huntandfishnyc also suitable for cutting steak!" Scaramucci even brought Colbert a gift of a front-stabbing knife (inside a sealed case). 
 
 After the interview on Monday, Scaramucci tweeted that he felt like he "went into the Lion's Den" at the show and "came out w/ a few scratches but still standing." ||||| There was not much “front-stabbing,” but you could cut the cringeworthy moments with a knife. 
 
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 Stopping by The Late Show on Monday, Anthony Scaramucci chatted with Stephen Colbert to share his 11-day tenure at the White House and his current relationship with President Donald Trump. 
 
 We’re guessing The Mooch is a big fan of Game of Thrones as he answered many of Colbert’s questions with references from the hit HBO series. 
 
 Here are the highlights from the short-lived White House Communications Director’s interview: 
 
 1. “I’m like Arya Stark.” 
 
 Scaramucci’s first comments after arriving at his guest chair included a shout-out to Maisie Williams‘ GoT character. “I’m like Arya Stark, I took a list of all your comedy writers for my kill list,” he told Colbert as the audience didn’t seem to laugh with the former Trump employee. 
 
 “So you’re comedically threatening to kill the people who work for me?” Colbert responded. 
 
 “I’m not allowed to joke anymore, I’ve learned that,” Scaramucci said in a follow-up to his Stark joke. 
 
 Towards the end of his interview, he made another go-around at his GoT bit, adding: “I’m Arya Stark with the comedy writers but a Lannister with my debts.” 
 
 2. “Nazis are super bad.” 
 
 In addition to joking about his remarks being “off the record” — a reference to his expletive-filled interview with a New Yorker reporter — Scaramucci repeated his criticism of the way Trump reacted to the protests in Charlottesville. 
 
 “He sometimes does the exact opposite [of what’s expected of him]. … Let’s be fair to be him, he did condemn the Nazis today,” Scaramucci said to Colbert after calling neo-Nazis and white supremacists “super bad.” 
 
 “Two days later! Does he order his spine on Amazon Prime? Why did it take so long?” Colbert asked Scaramucci about why it took Trump two days to strongly respond. 
 
 3. Trump is “a super compassionate person.” 
 
 Though the president fired him as communications director in late July, just 11 days into his post, Scaramucci is still deeply devoted to Trump. 
 
 “It was super rough on me, it’s super rough on [Trump],” Scaramucci said about being in the White House. “But he’s a super compassionate person. It’s a super tough job, he made a step to give up a luxurious lifestyle.” 
 
 Colbert immediately called him out for that specific statement, saying: “Who cares? We’re supposed to feel bad for the guy?” 
 
 And amid the violent protests erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, the late-night host seemed to disagree on Trump’s compassion. 
 
 “Mr. President, this is terrorism, not your order at KFC,” Colbert said in his opening monologue about Trump’s Saturday comment on condemning the display of hatred, bigotry and violence “on many sides.” 
 
 4. “I haven’t heard Trump complain about” being president. 
 
 Adding to his comments about Trump giving up his “luxurious lifestyle,” Scaramucci continued to stand up for Trump. 
 
 “It’s a huge sacrifice, I haven’t heard him complain about it,” he said about Trump’s job as commander-in-chief. “That’s him wearing his heart on his sleeve … it’s a fish bowl, it’s a difficult job,” Scaramucci continued, jokingly adding: “Being the communications director is a difficult job.” 
 
 5. “I thought I’d last longer than like a carton of milk.” 
 
 Scaramucci was fired shortly after the publication of his now-notorious New Yorker interview in which he blasted other members of Trump’s administration, including chief strategist Steve Bannon and then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. 
 
 “When you take a job like that you know your expiration date is coming. I didn’t think I would last too long, but I thought I’d last longer than like a carton of milk,” Scaramucci told Colbert. “If you bought your eggs and you were cooking them the day I got fired, it was totally fine, right?” 
 
 Late-night comedians, including Colbert, had a field day with Scaramucci’s exit. “The front stabber has been back stabbed. He said he was going to fire everybody, and I gotta admit, he delivered,” Colbert joked in a tribute parody. 
 
 6. “I’m an honest person.” 
 
 One exchange was particularly awkward between Scaramucci and Colbert. 
 
 “You know this, ok? You just feel it from me, I’m an honest person,” the former Goldman Sachs financier said to Colbert, who quickly disagreed. 
 
 “Wait a second. Don’t use me as a character witness for you. I don’t know. I met you like five minutes ago,” this year’s Emmy Awards host replied. 
 
 Scaramucci gives Colbert a front-stabbing knife 😂 pic.twitter.com/lkNV1bjtZs — Colby Bermel (@ColbyBermel) August 15, 2017 
 
 7. Knife wielding promise-keeper 
 
 Scaramucci tweeted on Aug. 10 that he would bring Colbert a “professionally monogrammed front stabbing knife” — and he actually did. 
 
 “After he hit me so hard for three weeks, he thought I was going to stab him with that. That’s why it’s in the hermetically sealed case,” Scaramucci explained his gift that was encased in a glass box. 
 
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– The Mooch appeared on Stephen Colbert's show Monday night and found himself defending the boss who just fired him. Colbert in particular grilled Anthony Scaramucci on why President Trump waited two days to condemn white supremacists after the violence in Virginia. "It was late, I'm not going to say it wasn't, but he did go to the White House (Monday) and he did make a statement that was very declarative against it," Scaramucci said. Colbert pressed him on why it took days, asking, "Does he order his spine on Amazon Prime?" Scaramucci responded that only Trump could answer that question. See the video. Other highlights, per People and the Hollywood Reporter: Steve Bannon: "If it was up to me, he would be gone," said Scaramucci, accusing Bannon of leaks. "But it's not up to me." Scaramucci also apologized to his mother about his infamous and vulgar Bannon joke. Reince Priebus: Was Scaramucci brought in to get rid of him? "I don't want to say it that way," Scaramucci said. When Colbert asked him to "say it like the Mooch," he responded, "So The Mooch from Long Island would say there's no love lost there." Odds and ends: He called Trump a "super compassionate person" (that got boos), said the president made a "huge sacrifice" to be president (that got derision from Colbert), joked that he was like Arya Stark and had compiled a kill list of Colbert's writers (the joke fizzled), and said he thought he'd last in his White House job "longer than a carton of milk.")