In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, short-lived former White House press secretary Anthony Scaramucci smiled and laughed at a clip of President Donald Trump calling Democrats who didn't clap for him during his State of the Union of "treasonous."
"The White House says the president when he said that was 'clearly joking,'" Tapper said.
"You're smiling," the host noted before the camera cut to Scaramucci, who did indeed appear pleased.
Despite being called out, the erstwhile press secretary didn't deny that he thought Trump appearing to accuse members of the opposition party of treason is funny.
"I think that we're gonna have a very long three years if we're going to micro-analyze the sentence structure of everything the president says," Scaramucci said.
"I clearly thought it was joking," he continued. "You saw my reaction — I was smiling, I know his personality. You can watch the gesticulation."
"He probably doesn't mean it," Scaramucci concluded.
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