Scaramucci: Lutnick and Bessent have "Potomac fever" - and I had it too

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0:00I had something that I call "Potomac fever." Okay, so let me tell you what "Potomac fever" is.

0:05It's like one of those pharmaceutical ads. Okay, "Potomac fever" is you're smart, you're a Wall

0:10Streeter, you're going to descend onto Washington, you're going to cross the river Potomac and you're

0:16going to fix Washington, and you think you're smarter than the people that live in Washington.

0:22But Washington changes you. You don't change Washington. And that's the truth about Washington.

0:26You can go in with all this idealism and great motives and great ideas,

0:30but actually the system will, well turn you into another inhabitant of the swamp.

0:35Of course, and it has a great immune system and any antibody that comes

0:38in there that they don't like, boom, they blow you right out.

0:41But Trump - that hasn't happened. He's kind of turned Washington upside down.

0:46He's become an insider. But I went in there with that level of naivety. And one of the

0:51great symptoms of Potomac fever is you don't know you have it.

0:55Bessent has it. Lutnick has it. You're tying your ego to the significance.

0:59You're tying your ego to the motorcade, the insider thing. I'm on the inside

1:04with the Secret Service protection. You're not. And it is an aphrodisiac.