Ex-Trump insider exposes president's secret psychological tell: 'He just can't admit it'

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director turned vocal Trump critic, is offering a window into what he says is President Donald Trump's secret psychological weakness — and it's not what most of the commander-in-chief's critics think.

In a lengthy post on X published Saturday, "The Mooch" argued that observers who can't fathom how Trump rose to the presidency are missing one key thing: they've never been in a room with him.

"If he walked through the door right now — even though we're always fighting — he would be disarming, gregarious, genuinely charming," Scaramucci wrote. He described Trump as a man who routinely savages opponents in public only to seek reconciliation moments later. "He calls Newsom 'Newscum' publicly and then sees him on the tarmac and says Gavin, are we good?" Scaramucci wrote.

"He'll destroy a journalist on camera and then pick up the phone five minutes later. Are we good?"

But the most revealing tell, according to Scaramucci, is what happens when Trump is surrounded by yes-men."When he's sitting at a table and everyone is telling him his invisible clothes are beautiful, he's nauseated by it," Scaramucci wrote. "He comes off the plane and finds someone real and says — can you believe how these guys talk to me? With genuine mocking derision."

Scaramucci further pointed to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as a case study, claiming Trump calls Carney "more than any other Western leader" specifically because Carney refuses to flatter him. "He craves the pushback. He just can't admit it."