Earlier on Thursday, newly installed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called into CNN’s New Day to chat with Chris Cuomo about the state of the White House, in an interview that left people mildly worried about the Mooch’s mental state. “The fish stinks from the head,” he told host Cuomo, conspiratorially, warning that the West Wing was full of leakers and pointing the finger at Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. “When I put out a tweet and I put Reince’s name in the tweet, [journalists] are all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So if Reince wants to explain that he is not a leaker—let him do that.” Scaramucci tried to walk back a tweet he had posted, and then deleted, the night before, in which he claimed, incorrectly, that the publication of his financial disclosure form was a felony and that he would be contacting the F.B.I. and the Justice Department. But the rest of the interview suggested that the Mooch was still out for blood: “Some brothers are like Cain and Abel,” he said, apparently describing his relationship with Priebus. “One-hundred-fifty years ago people would have been hung for these leaks.”

All of which looks positively staid in comparison to the stunningly unhinged, expletive-filled, on-the-record interview Scaramucci gave Wednesday night to The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, who proceeded to publish their exchange online Thursday afternoon. The quotes speak for themselves:

On eliminating leakers from the White House: “What I want to do is I want to f*cking kill all the leakers and I want to get the president’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people.”

On Reince Priebus, who Scaramucci said “c*ck-blocked” him for six months: “Reince is a f*cking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.”

On why he’s better than Steve Bannon: “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cck. I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fcking strength of the president. I’m here to serve the country.” (Both Bannon nor Priebus declined to comment when contacted by The New Yorker.)

On all the proof he’s got: “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said, referring to himself in the third person. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the F.B.I. and the f*cking Department of Justice.”

On the felonies his colleagues have committed: “Well, the felony, they’re gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony. The lie detector starts—” (the Mooch changed the subject from there).

On a social-media strategy focused on making people crazy: “Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some sh*t to make this guy crazy.” (Scaramucci proceeded to tweet, “In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting the @FBI and the @JusticeDepartment #swamp @Reince45.”)

According to Lizza, Scaramucci began their conversation by demanding the New Yorker reporter reveal his sources on a story about who was invited to a White House dinner with the president that evening, telling Lizza, “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.” (The Mooch later claimed that he was just kidding, “one Italian to another.”) For those of you wondering if Lizza revealed this conversation without the Mooch’s permission, he notes that, “Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background.”

Update: The White House communications director says he will “refrain” from using “colorful language” going forward.