Anthony Scaramucci enjoyed a last supper at Donald Trump's namesake hotel in Washington DC on Monday after getting axed as the President's chief spokesman just 10 days after he was hired.
He dined at the Trump Hotel's BLT Prime with former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson and a couple of administration employees.
Scaramucci spent most of the dinner on his cell phone and barely touched his food - after just over a week as the White House communications director during which his most notable moment was a foul-mouthed rant about Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon.
Anthony Scaramucci was spotted dining at the Trump Hotel restaurant in Washington DC with Trump loyalist and CNN contributor Katrina Pierson (left) on Monday hours after he was fired by the President +17
Anthony Scaramucci was spotted dining at the Trump Hotel restaurant in Washington DC with Trump loyalist and CNN contributor Katrina Pierson (left) on Monday hours after he was fired by the President
Scaramucci is pictured walking behind press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a smililing Kellyanne Conway looms in the background before he left the White House on Monday +17
Scaramucci is pictured walking behind press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a smililing Kellyanne Conway looms in the background before he left the White House on Monday
The former White House supremo was let go on the first day of Gen. John Kelly's tenure as White House Chief of Staff and after revelations about his wife filing for divorce while pregnant emerged at the weekend.
And after wrapping up the business day on Monday, President Trump tweeted 'A great day at the White House'.
At the Trump Hotel, Scaramucci chose a discreet table at the corner of the BLT restaurant under a tree, one of four planted in huge boxes in the restaurant.
He declined to be interviewed and left quietly through a side exit. It was the first time he had been seen in public all day since he was sacked.
The DailyMail's exclusive photo reveals that Trump surrogate Pierson is among those Trump loyalists closely connected to the ousted Mooch.
The president is likely to question, along with his inner circle, just why she was providing counsel to the discredited former White House supremo immediately after his axing.
Observers thought it extraordinary that after the day of bloodshed that saw him axed from the White House, he should be seen at the Trump Hotel.
But one diner said: 'Maybe Trump was putting him up and he didn't have time to check out yet. I guess as he's not from D.C he hasn't go his own base.
'He was in and out so quickly. It's incredible.'
Scaramucci's appearance at the restaurant came after President Trump proclaimed that Monday had been another 'great day at the White House' after Scaramucci was earlier escorted from the West Wing.
Trump made the defiant declaration in a tweet after 6pm Monday – on yet another turbulent day, on which he claimed at the outset there was 'no chaos' in the White House.
Prior to being seen with Scaramucci at the restaurant, Pierson - who was Trump’s spokeswoman in the final year of the campaign - tweeted on Monday afternoon that the Mooch had managed to stop news of his firing from being leaked.
'FWIW: @Scaramucci was fired at 8am but the press found out when the WH shop released it in the afternoon. Apparently, he stopped the leaks,' she tweeted.
It followed news from the White House hours earlier that Trump had concluded that the man brought in to salvage his message operation had made 'inappropriate' comments in a call where he ridiculed senior White House officials, and that the new White House chief of staff saw fit to dispatch Scaramucci during his own first hours on the job.
'A great day at the White House!' Trump tweeted, hours after the stunning news that Scaramucci was out. It was just the latest dramatic staff shake-up to rock the White House, one that saw the departure of chief of staff Reince Priebus, the victim of Scaramucci's tirade, on Friday.
The Mooch's departure came as as Gen. John Kelly brandished new authority over all staff working inside the White House on his first day on the job as the new chief of staff.
'Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director,' the White House said in a brief statement. 'Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best.'
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