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President Donald Trump’s new communications aide is deleting old tweets that didn’t jibe with his boss’ views.

The aide, Anthony Scaramucci, says on Twitter that he’s removing the messages because his views have evolved and shouldn’t be a distraction.

Trump announced Friday that he’d hired the New York financier to help sharpen the White House’s public message.

But social media users quickly recirculated past inconvenient tweets by Scaramucci, including one praising Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump defeated her for president last year and continues to criticize her.

Scaramucci says in Saturday’s tweet that he serves Trump’s agenda and “that’s all that matters.”

He adds in a later post: “The politics of “gotcha” are over. I have a thick skin and we’re moving on to @POTUS agenda serving the American people.”

https://apnews.com/d9ceeb9f905442ab...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

 

[Host Samurai]

The guy is the perfect Yes Man for Trump. He will bow down and worship him.

 

[Ingeniero]

I'm OK with this.
I should delete old tweets myself.

 

[Mobius 1]

Another self-serving piece of shit, who knew.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

He should know as a communications person that the internet never forgets and never forgives

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

They really need to stop being cowards.

 

[Netherscourge]

Yea, so people feeling good about his past Tweets condemning Trump or praising Obama should stop now.

He's a total fucking sellout.

Period.

 

[Chaotic-Strike]

I guess he's going to have to delete Trump's tweets daily now that his "view" changes every five seconds.

 

[Wagram]

Nothing is deleted from the internet.

 

[BronsonLee]

#DeleteYourTwitter

 

[conpfreak]

Yeah, once it's posted to the internet, it's on the internet.

 

[Dark Cloud]

He should delete his Twitter in general lol.

 

[theWB27]

He told people on Twitter he was deleting old tweets so that a bunch of people can go back and catch those tweets before they can rid of them?????

Seems typical for this administration.

 

[Neuromancer]

Here's a link to keep track of every deleted Trump tweet. There's a lot of them.

https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/realDonaldTrump?page=1&per_page=50

 

[Mr Swine]

Yeah, once it's posted to the internet, it's on the internet.

Except Trump can go "that tweet is fake news!" Whenever people bring it up

 

[Ri'Orius]

He should know as a communications person that the internet never forgets and never forgives

Welcome to a post-Trump America, where politicians have learned that an electoral majority of the public is willing to believe whatever bullshit you feed them, as long as you promise to stop the brown people from something something America.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

He told people on Twitter he was deleting old tweets so that a bunch of people can go back and catch those tweets before they can rid of them?????

Seems typical for this administration.

It's the requirement to be part of the administration.

 

[iamcenok]

I wish Twitter would disable any delete functions for potus accounts. For any politicians in general actually.

 

[Joyful]

from the tweets I saw this guy is a massive sellout lol

 

[Joe]

Susan Hennessey is the best

 

[CampbellzSoup]

So does trump actually tweet or is it someone under him?

 

[Dash_Riprock]

...Do they not realize how easy it is to pull up deleted tweets?

 

[yanipheonu]

"We deleted Trump's old tweets solving problems of him contradicting himself once and for all."
"But what if someone just saved them? I don't think that's how the internet wor-"
"ONCE AND FOR ALL!"

 

[Stinkles]

The guy is the perfect Yes Man for Trump. He will bow down and worship him.

His first press conference looked slick next to Spicer but watching the recaps - a couple of things:

1. His levels of sycophancy were through the roof. Genuinely bizarre appeal to to the press corps to "love him" as much as Scaramucci himself does.
2. All the questions he answered were related this own position. Let's see how he handles his next exposure when the spotlight is 100% on Trump shenanigans.
3. My god is sanders-huckabee terrible. Combative know nothing who can barely read her own sheets of talking points.

 

[zeemumu]

An Inconvenient Alternative-Truth

 

[gutter_trash]

Trump's Tweets should be achieved not deleted

 

[rekameohs]

So does trump actually tweet or is it someone under him?

They're stupid and incoherent enough to be believably from a 70 year old lunatic.

 

[RinsFury]

Does this idiot not realize every shitty tweet of his has already been archived? Can't hide this evidence at least.

 

[rjinaz]

I'm OK with this.
I should delete old tweets myself.

This guy was bad mouthing Trump like a year ago. It's not like it was 5 years ago.

It's ridiculous, which means he's perfect for this White House.

 

[theWB27]

It's the requirement to be part of the administration.

Idiocy in its purest form.

 

[Alucrid]

guys the aide is deleting HIS old tweets

 

[meppi]

Ah, the old amirox technique. Let's see if it works out for this asshole just as well.

 

[Zolo]

from the tweets I saw this guy is a massive sellout lol

Yeah. I think that's one reason he seemed to have opposition from some at the WH. He's not a traditional republican/conservative. His morals, beliefs, and views change with whatever way the wind blows.

 

[~Kinggi~]

Does this idiot not realize every shitty tweet of his has already been archived? Can't hide this evidence at least.

They can claim FAKE NEWS by deleting the tweets even when people claim they archived and have screens. Republicans are that dumb, they will go to twitter and see no tweet, therefore FAKE

 

[BFIB]

Does he cup the balls?

 

[rjinaz]

He adds in a later post: “The politics of “gotcha” are over. I have a thick skin and we’re moving on to @POTUS agenda serving the American people.”

Oh I missed this part. Must be the same thick skin Trump has. Skin so thick you can see right through it.

 

[Hagi]

“The politics of “gotcha” are over. I have a thick skin and we’re moving on to @POTUS agenda serving the American people.”

this is funny considering who he is working for and how the republicans operate in general

 

[cameron]

Both Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sean Spicer kept their old tweets that didn't age well.

He adds in a later post: “The politics of “gotcha” are over. I have a thick skin and we’re moving on to @POTUS agenda serving the American people.”

Waah, I have a thick skin!

 

[Little Old Man]

Surely you'd be deleting tweets every time he talks to anyone. That's all it takes for him to change his position on anything.

 

[Broken Joystick]

I thought he wasn't allowed to delete tweets? (lol)

 

[Haly]

Anthony Scaramucci‏Verified account @Scaramucci 3h3 hours ago
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Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters

This makes a kind of literal sense because full transparency is invisibility, which is what he's trying to achieve here.

 

[rjinaz]

this is funny considering who he is working for and how the republicans operate in general

Yeah it's amusing because the Trump people always try and come out like the good guys, "well WE want to focus on policy!"

Yet Trump himself is the one that causes nearly every distraction. You do you GOP and the stupid people that fall for it.

 

[Mahonay]

Good plan. Deleting it means it goes away forever. What's archiving?

 

[Wanda/Wander]

Susan Hennessey is the best

"Susan Hennessey" sounds the like title of a Soundcloud rapper's mixtape

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

He's talking about his tweets, so this all about money huh? He tweeted about stricter gun laws climate change.

 

[CazTGG]

But does he believe that Dippin' Dots are the ice cream of the future? Spicey didn't.

 

[Shauni]

Except Trump can go "that tweet is fake news!" Whenever people bring it up

It'd be very easy to verify that in the same way it would an e-mail. I really don't know what they hope to accomplish, to be honest. I mean, I do, but it blows my mind they actually think this is a real solution. Why, hell, every news network in the country probably monitors both his personal and POTUS twitter 24/7 at this point.

 

[HStallion]

Nothing disappears once its out on the internet, this bozos tweets included.

 

[Psychoward]

Susan Hennessey is the best

lol, rektarino

 

[n0razi]

...Do they not realize how easy it is to pull up deleted tweets?

Does it matter to their base?