Scaramucci pins CLARITY Act failure on Trump's memecoin

Anthony Scaramucci has a blunt take on why the CLARITY Act never made it across the finish line. The former White House communications director told Ciaran Lyons that President Donald Trump's memecoin launch was the single reason the bill failed — his word for it was the

singular reason.

The exchange happened on Chain Reaction, a Cointelegraph show, taped live at SALT London.

Scaramucci didn't leave it there. He was asked what one question he'd put to Trump right now about his crypto business dealings — a prompt that puts the president's own token activity squarely in the frame. The episode's full cut is out now.

It's a striking claim from a man who once worked inside Trump's White House and has since become one of the loudest crypto voices in the room. Now he's pointing at a memecoin as the thing that took down a piece of legislation the industry had been pushing for.

The CLARITY Act, as Scaramucci frames it, didn't stall on the usual partisan gridlock. His version of events lands the blame on a coin launch tied to the sitting president — the kind of collision between politics and tokens that keeps regulators reaching for new rules.