White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday that 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 may have let his ardor for President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE's agenda "get the best of him" during a profanity-laced interview with The New Yorker.

"This is a guy who sometimes uses colorful and — in many circles — probably not appropriate language," Sanders said on Fox News. "And he's very passionate about the president — the president's agenda — and I think he may have let that get the best of him in that conversation."

In a phone conversation with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza on Wednesday, Scaramucci savaged senior staffers in Trump's White House, including chief of staff Reince Priebus Reinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusLeaked audio shows Trump touted low Black voter turnout in 2016: report Meadows joins White House facing reelection challenges Trump names Mark Meadows as new chief of staff MORE and chief strategist Stephen Bannon.

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In a tirade dotted with expletives and lewd language, Scaramucci, who was named Trump's communications director last week, savaged Trump administration officials who leak information from the White House and pressed Lizza to reveal anonymous sources from an earlier story he had published.

"What I want to do is I want to f------ kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” Scaramucci said in the interview.

Scaramucci tweeted a statement shortly after The New Yorker published the details of the conversation on Thursday, vowing to "refrain" from using such "colorful language" in the future.

"I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda," he tweeted.