Scaramucci says 'you'll be surprised' by Trump's view of climate change

Fired White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on CNN

President Trump on Thursday commented on the extreme cold weather freezing much of the United States by musing on Twitter that some climate change would be nice right about now:

But fired White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci suggested on CNN Sunday that Trump was only joking to make a political point. "I love the president's sense of humor, but I also think he's saying something else," Scaramucci said in a State of the Union interview. "I think you guys should ask him directly if he's a climate change denier. I think you'll find you'll be surprised by that answer."

Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change in June, citing economic objections, which he referenced in his Thursday tweet. Watch Scaramucci's comments in context below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.