Trump White House Secretary Caught on Hot Mic Joking ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’

President Donald Trump’s White House staff secretary Will Scharf was caught comparing real-world events to the film Our Brand Is Crisis.

On Thursday, Sept. 18, Scharf, 39, appeared at the business reception between Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his country residence, Chequers Court in England. 

During the meeting, Scharf is heard answering pleasantries on a hot mic, but he offers an unexpected reply, per SkyNews.

“Wonderful,” he said, before adding, “Our Brand Is Crisis. That was a Sandra Bullock movie that’s a bit too true to life sometimes.”

The 2015 film starred Bullock as an American political consultant who “is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate,” per the logline.

The comedy-drama is based on the 2005 documentary that chronicled Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) using American political campaign marketing tactics to get Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada elected as Bolivia’s president in 2002.

Trump is visiting the U.K. with first lady Melania Trump — where British activists have protested against him over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. 

While the president and first lady have been out of the country, people across the U.S., including politicians, Hollywood figures and political commentators, have been critiquing the president and his administration after Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was “indefinitely” pulled on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

ABC announced the decision to pull the show from its network on Wednesday, two days after Kimmel, 57, mentioned late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in his monologue. Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. He was 31.

The network’s decision was also made hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, who was appointed by Trump, commented that Kimmel had shown “some of the sickest conduct possible” with his statements involving Kirk and urged Disney to take action, per Deadline.

The next day, Carr defended his stance in an X post and also warned that his agency was “not done yet,” making changes to the “media ecosystem.”

Also on Thursday, Sept. 18, Trump made remarks on Air Force One and insisted that many networks are “97% against” him and give him “wholly bad publicity.” 

“I mean they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away,” he continued. “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — if you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative one in years, or something — when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump.”

The recent decision and uncertainty over Kimmel’s future come amid the comedian’s continued feud with Trump, who suggested that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be the next late-night casualty after CBS canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in July.

In mid-July, Colbert, 61, announced that his show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, was canceled by CBS.

CBS’ decision came days after Colbert criticized the network’s parent company, Paramount, during his July 14 episode for its July 3 $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump. The president alleged that CBS News’ 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount was in the process of completing a merger with the entertainment company Skydance, which required approval from Trump’s administration. The merger was approved on July 24.

The day before Kimmel’s show was “indefinitely” pulled, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked Trump about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s intentions to “go after hate speech.”

The president, 79, responded, “I’d probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe I’ll come after ABC.”