He suggested that his financial disclosure form was leaked and threatened to call in the FBI and the Justice Department. In fact, that form became public automatically, hence the term “disclosure.”

He told Politico himself that he would fire assistant White House press secretary Michael Short. The process dragged on for hours until the aide quit. Scaramucci then blamed the press for a leak.

To cap it off, he spoke to the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on the record, disparaging chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon in obscene terms; browbeating Lizza to get the name of the person who mentioned a dinner that he, President Trump, former Fox News executive Bill Shine and Fox News host Sean Hannity attended; threatening to fire everyone on the communications staff; and impugning Lizza’s patriotism. And he predicted Priebus soon would be fired.

On one level, the frenetic tone and the exceptionally vulgar language Scaramucci used are the natural culmination of a campaign and now an administration that has lowered the level of discourse far below anything we have seen before. On another level, Scaramucci’s hysteria sets him apart from other spokesmen who personally have largely refrained from losing control. Scaramucci presumably will want a security clearance, but who at this point is convinced of his personal stability?