Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci confirmed a report that President Donald Trump “secretly mocks” conservative Christian supporters, even though he has leaned on their support during the 2016 presidential election and throughout his time in office.
The Atlantic reported Tuesday, citing Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen as well as anonymous former aides, that the president has poked fun of evangelical Christians and mocked Republican Senator Mitt Romney’s religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—commonly referred to as Mormons. Shortly after the news broke, Scaramucci, who has become a staunch Trump critic, retweeted it and said it was accurate.
“True,” Scaramucci tweeted, sharing the post by the article’s author, journalist McKay Coppins. “Former aides say they’ve heard Trump privately ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride rites and doctrines held sacred by many in his base,” Coppins wrote in his tweet, including a link to the full article.
Scaramucci also retweeted a follow-up tweet by Coppins, which said: “One former Trump adviser told me he seems to feel a kind of kinship with certain prosperity gospel preachers.” In the article, the journalist explained that sources told him that the president appeared to be impressed by the way televangelists and religious leaders were able to garner millions of dollars in contributions from their followers.