Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is not holding back. In a pointed post on X Tuesday, he questioned President Donald Trump's foreign policy toward Russia, NATO, and Ukraine, and made a stark accusation: Russian President Vladimir Putin has some kind of hold on Trump.

"If Trump is disavowing NATO and breaking an 80 year tradition — something's wrong," Scaramucci wrote. He went on: "If Trump is praising Vladimir Putin, whose entire economy is slightly smaller than the state of Texas — something's wrong."

Scaramucci also brought up the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine gave up its inherited Soviet nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S., the U.K., and Russia. "If Trump is disavowing the 1994 defense agreement where we told Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons and we'd protect them — the agreement that got him impeached in his first term — something is wrong," he said.

The former communications director noted that Trump attacks other world leaders freely but won't say a negative word about Putin. "Putin owns him. It's hard to watch as an American but it's obvious," Scaramucci wrote. He added, "Why does he own him? That'll probably come out someday."

Scaramucci concluded with a broader suggestion: "The question isn't whether something exists. It's what."

This isn't the only criticism Trump's foreign policy has faced recently. Last week, at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump revived his push for Greenland, calling it a national security priority and saying the U.S. erred by returning control of the island to Denmark. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected the remarks, saying Greenland was "not for sale."

Former national security adviser John Bolton has also criticized Trump's foreign policy as inconsistent, pointing to Venezuela as an example where critics argue his actions failed to fully change the country's power structure. Meanwhile, economist Peter Schiff warned that Trump's rhetoric could worsen concerns over U.S. debt and the dollar, with rising deficits and economic uncertainty intensifying financial risks.

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