The infamous Anthony Scaramucci, irrepressible Trump backer turned top White House adviser, hails from Wall Street, where his fund of funds business was a vehicle for schmoozing with the world’s most rich and powerful. Wall Street, of course, is filled with egos as big as the paychecks, where dick-measuring is as much a part of the culture as having an unhealthy attachment to one’s Bloomberg terminal. So it’s not that Scaramucci, a.k.a. “the Mooch,” isn’t used to self-importance. It’s just that when it’s coming from the relative indigents of the political world, it strikes him as totally pathetic.

The “thing I have learned about these people in Washington,” Scaramucci told New York’s Jessica Pressler, “is they have no money. So what happens when they have no fucking money is they write about what seat they are in and what the title is. Fucking congressmen act like that. They are fucking jackasses.”

Scaramucci has a plan for winning over the pitiful wretches, however. “Do you know how many congressional liaisons we are going to have? I don’t either, but I told Pence it should be four times whatever Obama had,” he continued. “I don’t know how many he had, but I’m telling you that didn’t work out. I’m telling you if you want to decrease the government, you gotta increase it in certain ways.”

Then he looked at Pressler and said, really, “How old are you? You look good. No lines on your face. What are you, a Sagittarius?”

Trump plans to cut regulations, big league . . .

As you might already know, Donald Trump hates regulation almost as much as he hates nuance and restraint. During his transition, he named corporate raider Carl Icahn a “special adviser” on regulatory matters and on Monday declared that he plans to slash regulations by 75 percent or “maybe more.” Naturally, the president did not elaborate on which rules he plans to cut, but presumably they’ll include the ones affecting Icahn’s investments.

. . . and tax companies that go abroad

Per The Wall Street Journal:

“There will be no country that’s going to be faster, better, more fair,” Mr. Trump said. He promised incentives for businesses that produce and hire in the U.S. but warned the leaders, “if you go to another country . . . we are going to be imposing a very major border tax.”

Don vs. China

Citigroup has weighed in on the brewing cross-Pacific conflagration and predicts things are going to get pretty tense! Which is generally what happens when a U.S. president violates decades of diplomatic protocol so that he can take a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan and then, in the course of saying sorry, he’s not sorry, calls China “currency manipulators,” and threatens a trade war. Per Bloomberg: