President Donald Trump is playing the "long game" on trade, Middle East strategy and more, former White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci said Monday.
"It's not chaos," Scaramucci told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "It's basically the president is probably one of the few people that's willing to play a long game as opposed to all these little blings and ticks in the market."
For example, one of the reasons Trump is pulling troops from Syria is because he doesn't want to put them in harm's way unnecessarily.
"We can't be everything to everybody," said Scaramucci. "I think the president recognizes that and, you know, you are spending a trillion dollars of debt. I'm with the president on this. I'm with Rand Paul and the president on this."
However, Scaramucci said he does have an "enormous amount of respect" for outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis, but he does recognize where Trump is going with Syria.
"We were supposed to be in Syria for a few months," said Scaramucci. "Now it's been three years...John F. Kennedy once said you have to be careful. We have a military industrial complex that's established and, you know, the impulse is to fight. But sometimes the better impulse is not to fight."
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has come under fire for calling top bank executives to assure them the economy is stable, but Scaramucci said that was an appropriate thing for him to do, given what happened in 2008.
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