28-04-2025
Anthony Scaramucci says Donald Trump has 'already declared WW3'
Donald Trump's former communications director Anthony Scaramucci says people need to "understand" the President has "already triggered a war" -
it's just not in the form people might have expected.
Scaramucci, who
has become an outspoken critic of Trump
since his time in office was cut short in a matter of days for criticizing cabinet members, is now a the Rest is Politics US host.
Speaking to Saxo on behalf of the Irish Star,
the 61-year-old explained
despite Trump saying he wants to see a permanent ceasefire in Russia after his previously lax stance, the world war is already underway.
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Scaramucci said: "He's already triggered a war. So you have to understand something - he's triggered tariff war one. And so he's Admiral Yamamoto, he's the one who declared war on the United States by attacking Pearl Harbor. And so he's now declared a world war."
Risks are high the global economy will slip into recession this year, according to a majority of economists in a Reuters poll, in which scores said Trump's tariffs have damaged business sentiment.
Just three months ago, the same group of economists covering nearly 50 economies had expected the global economy to grow at a strong, steady clip.
Anthony Scaramucci at "The ABC News Presidential Debate: Race for the White House" held at the National Constitution Cente
(Image: Getty Images)
As China leads the way while the rest of the globe scrambles to make sense of the tariffs, Trump's supposed enemy number one looks to come out on top.
Scaramucci said: "It is an economic war. And we are now in tariff war one, but will it go kinetic? I don't think it needs to go kinetic. I think that there are very smart adversaries in this war. The Chinese don't need to go kinetic. I think Trump has missized the Chinese.
"If you study the famine that took place in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution and you study the history of Xi Jinping, he doesn't care."
Indeed, as China reacted to the latest round of Trump's inflation of Tariffs to 125 per cent, now 145 per cent, on all American goods, vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization, Victor Zhikai Gao, told
Channel 4's Cathy Newman
: 'We don't care! China has been here for 5,000 years. Most of the time, there was no US, and we survived.'
Scaramucci said: "His people will hold tight. If anything, what Trump is doing to China, even though there's weakness economically in China, what he's doing to China will galvanise those people.
"So Trump has managed to **** off the Canadians, the Chinese, the Europeans, the citizens of the UK, and most industrial countries by declaring tariff war. But I don't see a reason why it would have to go kinetic.
For Scaramucci, the threat is not in a physical war, but a cyber war. He said: ""If you're telling me that there's a missile strike in Iran and they attack one of the eastern, western European cities or something like that, could there be a regional war?
"I don't see why, because remember, you can fight cyber war, you can fight an economic war, you could shut down each other's electrical information grids. It's not clear to me that we need to be dropping nuclear bombs on each other at this point to gain whatever the interests are for the various state leaders."
