Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump’s former communications director, warned current members of the Trump administration that people who rise within Trump’s political orbit often later find themselves cast aside.

“There’s one thing every rising star in Trump’s orbit eventually learns the hard way,” Scaramucci, a financier who served in Trump’s first term, posted on X on Sunday. “He eats his young. And if you don’t believe me, ask Pence, ask Pompeo, ask Nikki Haley.”

Scaramucci was referring to former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Pence served as Trump’s vice president and was later blamed by Trump for not helping him overturn the 2020 presidential election. Pompeo and Haley also served in senior foreign-policy posts during Trump’s first term, and Scaramucci suggested they were thrown under the bus after controversial foreign-policy decisions in which they were involved.

Scaramucci then turned his attention to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“So I think if Rubio’s smart, he resigns on his own terms — before Trump does it for him,” Scaramucci wrote.

The warning was aimed less at one personnel dispute than at a broader pattern Scaramucci says he has seen among Trump allies: public loyalty does not necessarily shield officials from later blame or repudiation when political circumstances change. By naming Pence, Pompeo, Haley and Rubio, Scaramucci framed the risk as especially relevant for high-profile figures whose roles place them close to major policy decisions.

Since leaving the White House, Scaramucci has become an outspoken critic of Trump and has repeatedly used X to criticize the president on a range of issues.

“Trump's third tariff tantrum piles more dizzying distractions on top of ever-spiraling failures,” Scaramucci posted on X earlier in July. Around the same time, he also wrote, “America has a structural problem. When you gerrymander your district and screen out everyone who doesn’t already agree with you, you never have to modify your positions. You never have to meet anyone in the middle. You just keep winning by playing to your base.”

Scaramucci has also argued that a teleprompter operator accused of using inside information from a Trump speech to trade on prediction markets was abandoned because he was not wealthy or influential enough for the president to care about his fate.

“I think the problem with what's happening with the teleprompter guy — he probably heard the president say that he was going to pardon everybody inside 200 to 250 feet of the White House, as reported in ‘Regime Change’ by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman,” Scaramucci told MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace in July. “But he doesn't qualify, the poor kid, because he doesn't make enough money. He's not influential enough, and his last name isn't Trump. So the kid's obviously in a lot of trouble, and he's going to pay the price while the president's going to go on to make several billion dollars for himself.”

Asked about the president’s own insider trading, Scaramucci said Trump does not see any problem with it.

“He sees it as incredibly smart: ‘Look how smart I am. The other people that held his position, they couldn't do this. Look how great I am,’” Scaramucci argued. “While Barack Obama had a seven- or eight-page financial disclosure, he had a phone book of 927 pages. And, oh, by the way — you pointed this out — he thinks it's peanuts compared to what the tech blogs make, etc. He also thinks a lot of the stuff that he's doing is legal.”