White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Anthony ScaramucciFormer DeVos chief of staff joins anti-Trump group Scaramucci to Lemon: Trump 'doubling down' on downplaying virus 'should scare' viewers Sunday shows - Leaked audio of Trump's sister reverberates MORE urged the public to leave his family alone after news broke his wife filed for divorce on Friday.

"Leave civilians out of this. I can take the hits, but I would ask that you would put my family in your thoughts and prayers & nothing more," Scaramucci tweeted.

Leave civilians out of this. I can take the hits, but I would ask that you would put my family in your thoughts and prayers & nothing more. — Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 28, 2017

The newly minted communications director's tweet comes after Page Six reported his wife Deidre Ball filed for divorce. She cites her husband's political ambition.

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Scaramucci has been facing a media firestorm since Wednesday evening when he appeared to suggest in a now-deleted tweet that former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was behind leaks to the press coming out of the White House.

Scaramucci then tore into Priebus and chief strategist Stephen Bannon during a New Yorker interview, in which he called Priebus a "f------ paranoid schizophrenic" and said "I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c---."

Trump announced on Friday that John Kelly, currently head of the Department of Homeland Security, will replace Priebus as chief of staff.