President Trump's new communications director Anthony Scaramucci debated Chris Cuomo, host of CNN's 'New Day,' for almost thirty minutes on Wednesday morning. In the above clip, Scaramucci makes the case that the president's supporters are not offended by his tweets. Scaramucci pushes back against the CNN host's characterization that President Trump's use of social media alientates people.



He says it is the opposite: "President Trump is arguably the most media-savvy person in history, but certainly of our times. And so he has hopped right over the mainstream media and use the social media mechanisms like Twitter, and Facebook and Instagram to hit directly to the American people... Certainly, all the American people that voted for him either don't care about the tweets, they find them funny. They find them refreshing. They don't overreact."



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ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, TRUMP COMMS DIRECTOR: The president has a very unique communication style. People will say I am being sycophantic -- I am not, I am just saying objectively -- President Trump is arguably the most media-savvy person in history, but certainly of our times. And so he has hopped right over the mainstream media and use the social media mechanisms like Twitter, and Facebook and Instagram to hit directly to the American people. It's the reason why we spent less money and less staff during the campaign and won the election.



And so, you got to just look at it for what it is. So, there are vagaries on the bell curve of his media style that some of you guys in the media don't like. And maybe some of the elites in Washington really don't like.



CUOMO: OK.



SCARAMUCCI: But if you go down the base, if you look at the statistical base, you'll see that the base and the majority of the American people, certainly all the American people that voted for him either don't care about the tweets, they find them funny. They find them refreshing. They don't overreact and micro --



CUOMO: It’s actually not what the surveys show.



SCARAMUCCI: They don’t overreact and micro-analyze them the way you guys do.



CUOMO: It’s actually not what the survey shows. Its shows most people don't think they're appropriate and aren't big fans of him, but he is playing to his base, I’ll give you that.



SCARAMUCCI: OK. But you know what? They're still voting for him. He’s still the president. CUOMO: They voted for him. Let’s see if the same style as a president works as an insurgent candidate.



SCARAMUCCI: Last time I checked, he's living in the residence up here, and the elites aren't. That's the last time I checked. So, he’s doing something right.

