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She got Scaramucci’d!
Notoriously short-lived former White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci quipped Friday that freshly canned press secretary Katie Zacharia beat his record as Trump’s fastest-ever-fired flack.
“Records are made to be broken. But I take no pleasure in other people’s pain,” tweeted Scaramucci, who served a paltry 11 days as press secretary in 2017.
Zacharia was fired Friday after less than a week on the job — aka roughly “half a Scaramucci” — following what media dubbed an “awkward” and “nervous” press conference Tuesday and other bad interviews, sources told The New York Times.
She also appeared in segments on FOX News that Trump described as “tough,” and was bashed in headlines for allegedly misrepresenting herself as a lawyer.
To “get Scaramuccied” famously became a verb when Trump sacked Scaramucci after a wild, curse-laced phone interview he gave to The New Yorker journalist Ryan Lizza in July 2017.
On Friday, Scaramucci made the comment when replying to MS Now host Joe Scarborough, who tweeted, “Mooch, we hardly knew ye,” apparently about Zacharia swiping his embarrassing claim to fame.
Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres, meanwhile, dubbed the five-day firing, “Less than half a Scaramucci.”