SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci didn't hold back on Saturday. In a blistering post on X, he called for President Donald Trump's removal from office and slammed what he sees as a systemic failure by America's political and business elite.
"We are ALL FAILING this country," Scaramucci wrote. "He should have been removed before the war started. He is mentally unwell."
Scaramucci also took aim at the phenomenon of "sane washing" — the tendency to treat Trump's behavior as normal. "The sane washing — pretending this is normal — that's just the surface problem," he said. "The real problem is that we have willing accomplices."
He extended the blame beyond Trump himself, arguing that the country is witnessing "a complete failure of political elites to execute on the constitutional system that was built specifically for this moment." Scaramucci specifically called out "every senator who stays quiet, every executive who writes the check, every commentator who normalizes it."
His conclusion was stark: Trump "needs to be removed from office and he won't be."
This isn't the first time Scaramucci has gone after Trump. Last month, he criticized Trump's remarks about Pope Leo XIV, warning the situation could "get worse and worse" and urging a de-escalation of rhetoric.
Scaramucci isn't alone in raising alarms. Democratic lawmakers have also been vocal about Trump's fitness. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called Trump's Easter post "utterly unhinged," and other Democrats have renewed calls to consider the 25th Amendment. Governor Gavin Newsom's (D-Calif.) office even mocked a White House mental health initiative, responding to the announcement with, "For himself?"
The criticism comes amid a broader debate about the role of political and business leaders in checking executive power. Scaramucci's message is clear: silence is complicity, and the system is failing when it needs to work most.
