Scaramucci: Trump ‘coming to grips’ with defeat, ‘growing darker’

Ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that former President Trump is “coming to grips” with not recapturing the White House, and “growing darker” as a result.

“Trump psychologically is coming to grips with losing this election. He is growing darker as a result of it,” Scaramucci wrote in a post on the social platform X.

“Will be a rough 81 days,” Scaramucci, who served briefly in the Trump administration before becoming a vocal critic of him, added.

Trump has slung multiple personal insults at Vice President Harris, who is expected to become the Democratic presidential nominee at next week’s convention. Republicans, however, have been pushing Trump to turn his attention toward policy differences.

“The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see,” former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow earlier this week. “It’s fewer insults, more insights and that policy contrast.”

Trump said at a Thursday press conference that he was “entitled to personal attacks” aimed at Harris.

“I don’t have a lot of respect for her,” Trump said. “I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence, and I think she’ll be a terrible president.”

“And I think it’s very important that we win,” Trump continued. “And whether the personal attacks are good, bad — she certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird.”

Harris has been pulling ahead in recent polling. In an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Harris is leading Trump by 1.8 points, with the vice president garnering 49 percent support to the former president’s 47.2 percent.

Recent polling from The New York Times/Siena College also found Harris up in three important battleground states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — by 4 points.

The Hill has requested comment from the Trump campaign on Scaramucci’s remarks.