Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly in Donald Trump’s first administration, this week took one of the president’s favorite insults and turned it back at him and his most faithful MAGA supporters.

That’s the term “Trump derangement syndrome,” which the president often uses to dismiss his critics.

Journalist Don Lemon showed Scaramucci a clip of longtime Democratic strategist James Carville earlier this month, directing deeply personal insults at the president as he embraced the mock diagnosis.

“You’re right, I’ve got Trump derangement syndrome,” Carville declared. “I hate the motherfucker.”

Anthony Scaramucci: “I don’t think James Carville has Trump Derangement Syndrome. I think James Carville has Trump Reality Syndrome. The people that have TDS are the ones that are with him still. Those are the people that are deranged. Those are the people that have lost touch… pic.twitter.com/42NuKqEgAm

But Scaramucci ― who infamously served Trump for just 10 days in 2017 ― defended Carville, saying those kinds of insults are effective in that they get under the president’s skin.

“I don’t think James Carville has Trump derangement syndrome,” he said. “I think James Carville has Trump reality syndrome.”

Then, he flipped the term back on the president’s most loyal supporters.

“The people that have Trump derangement syndrome are the ones that are with him still,” Scaramucci said. “Those are the people that are deranged. Those are the people that have lost touch with reality in terms of how much damage he and his cronies are causing the country and the world.”

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