Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump's former communications director, has said he will "go dark before re-emerging as me" following his dramatic resignation from the White House.

Breaking his silence after being removed on Monday, Mr Scaramucci said a foul-mouthed tirade to a journalist, which ultimately cost him his job, had been "humorous and joking".

Mr Scaramucci told the Huffington Post: "I am now going to go dark. Then I will re-emerge. As me."

In the expletive-ridden New Yorker interview Mr Scaramucci had described Mr Trump's then chief of staff Reince Priebus as a "a paranoid schizophrenic" and crudely attacked his chief strategist Steve Bannon.