Chris Cuomo Battles Scaramucci After He Says Heavy Trump Admin Turnover is Because WH ‘Is A Startup’

Break out the ping-pong tables, the cushy couches and the PS4s – the White House has embraced startup life.

That’s according to Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director who has since become a prominent Trump surrogate on cable news.

“If the president is making more strategic changes in personnel, maybe that will smooth things out on a going-forward basis,” Scaramucci told New Day‘s Chris Cuomo of the White House’s high turnover rate.

“Who says it’s strategic? It’s been such a bloodletting,” Cuomo replied. “We’ve never seen this kind of turnover. He said he was going to bring in the best people. That’s one basis of criticism. But this doesn’t seem to be about strategic choices. It just seems to be like, ‘You’re out’ and we don’t know what his vision is.”

“I sold two businesses, or almost sold my last business. What happens in the first two years is you have heavy turnover,” Scaramucci explained. “He is an entrepreneur. The American people elected not a politician, [but a businessman].”

“Who runs a business like this?” Cuomo asked incredulously.

“Uh, I have,” Scaramucci said. (Awkward.)

“You’ve turned over 45 percent of your employees in a year?” Cuomo pressed. “That’s called a bankruptcy.”

“This is a start-up,” Scaramucci replied. “He is trying to put personnel on the field that like him.”

“The White House is a start-up organization? The highest echelon of executive activity in our democracy?” Cuomo shot back.

“You hired an American business leader who is an entrepreneur to run the White House,” Scaramucci said.

“Find me a business of new merit that had this kind of turnover,” Cuomo retorted.

Watch the rest of the back-and-forth above, via CNN.

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