On Friday, Donald Trump appointed former hedge fund manager Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci as White House communications director. Scaramucci’s support of Trump is longstanding—he worked on the campaign’s national finance committee and often appeared on cable news as a surrogate during the 2016 campaign. But before he supported Trump, Scaramucci worked as a fundraiser for the Scott Walker and Jeb Bush campaigns—and in September 2015, delivered a two-minute rant assailing Trump as a “hack politician” on the Fox Business Network show Mornings With Maria.

In the segment, Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital, took offense to Trump’s charge, made on Fox and Friends, that “the hedge fund guys are paying nothing [in taxes].” He sniped that Trump “is probably going to make Elizabeth Warren his vice presidential nominee” and went so far as to call the comments “un-American.” Said Scaramucci: “You’re an inherited-money dude from Queens County; bring it, Donald.” When a panelist pointed out that he should also be disturbed by Trump’s misogyny, Scaramucci obliged and said, “I don’t like the way he talks about women. I don’t like the way he talks about Megyn Kelly.” Reflecting the view of many pundits at the time, he ended his tirade by declaring, “This nonsense [the Trump campaign] is going to end, and I predict it’ll end before Thanksgiving.”

The two eventually smoothed things over, and Scaramucci joined the Trump campaign in April 2016. In an interview with Slate's Jacob Weisberg at the Republican National Convention, Scaramucci explained the previous beef: “I’m sort of sick and tired of people saying mean things about the hedge fund industry. ... As in every industry there are nefarious players ... but I don’t like every apple in the basket being decried rotten.” Yet the hedge fund manager chalked up the spat to a “difference of opinion;” he rhetorically asked Weisberg, “Have you met a politician that you line up with 100 percent on? Because I haven’t.” Scaramucci’s rant is now a running joke, as Scaramucci told Weisberg: “[Trump] teases me about it to this day.” And in an apparent about-face from his criticisms of Trump’s bigotry, Scaramucci wrote off the then-candidate’s history of questionable comments as “rhetorical flourishes.”