Newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci defended President Trump with alacrity in his opening press conference, but is having a harder time guarding his old tweets.
Twitter users are digging up Scaramucci’s past comments, and many are in stark contrast to Trump and the GOP’s core policies.
The former financier and Fox Business host said on Friday “I love the president and I’m very, very loyal to the president, and I love the mission that the president has.” But he’s, apparently, not a fan of Trump’s proposed wall along the Mexican border. He scrambled to delete a December 2015 tweet saying “Walls don’t work. Never have never will. The Berlin Wall 1961-1989 don’t fall for it.”
It didn’t stop with erasing tweets aimed at Trump, though. Also deleted was a post on climate change, saying it was “disheartening” people still believe it’s a “hoax.”
And then there was an axed tweet from August 2012 saying it’s “common sense” to apply more gun controls, which won’t sit well with Second Amendment absolutists.
At one point, it looks like Scaramucci was a fan of Hillary Clinton — just like President Trump — having tweeted five years ago he “hope she runs, she is incredibly competent.” This tweet has also been conspicuously disappeared.
President Trump had a simple explanation for the latter, tweeting Saturday morning that Scaramucci wanted to endorse him first, but didn’t think Trump was running.
Farewell, Sean Spicer: Here Are His Most Memorable White House Moments (Photos)
White House press secretary Sean Spicer stepped down on Friday, leaving behind a legacy of frequent errors, outright lies and a stellar impersonation by Melissa McCarthy.
Jan. 21: In his debut as White House press secretary, Spicer slammed the "dishonest" media for lying about the size of the crowds at Trump's inauguration. He would go on to falsely state that it was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."
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Jan. 23: After Spicer's combative first press conference, New York magazine's The Cut dug up a seemingly small detail from an August 2016 profile of Spicer in the Washington Post: Spicer chews two and a half packs of Orbit cinnamon gum by noon, all of which he swallows whole.
Jan. 26: Spicer confounded Twitter users in January with a pair mysterious tweets on consecutive mornings that still have not been explained. Some have speculated that the random strings of characters, "Aqenbpuu" and "n9y25ah7," could be mistakenly tweeted-out passwords.
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Feb. 4: Melissa McCarthy earned an Emmy nomination for her impression of Spicer on "Saturday Night Live," a brash, gut-busting impression that's likely to endure in the collective American memory longer than Spicer's actual performance as press secretary.
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March 10: Spicer showed up to an on-camera press briefing with his American flag lapel pin turned upside-down, traditionally a signal of distress. The gaffe also earned a shoutout from Netflix's "House of Cards," which uses an upturned flag as its logo.
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March 17: In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Spicer wore a solid green tie to a press briefing in March, all but asking internet users to give him the greenscreen treatment. Social media took the challenge and ran with it, superimposing all kinds of video footage onto his chest.
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March 28: Spicer got into a terse exchange with veteran White House correspondent April Ryan over the Trump administration's various Russia scandals. He grew frustrated as he repeatedly denied all the allegations, before snapping and instructing her to "stop shaking your head."
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April 11: While discussing the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, Spicer drew outrage when he said, "You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Given the opportunity to clarify, Spicer mistakenly referred to Nazi death camps as "Holocaust centers," making his predicament even worse.
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May 10: Spicer and his team scrambled to deal with the press when Trump surprised the country by firing FBI Director James Comey amid an ongoing investigation into the president's ties to Russia. The Washington Post later reported that Spicer "spent several minutes hidden in the bushes" preparing before agreeing to only take questions in complete darkness.
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May 24: During the President's highly publicized trip to Europe and the Middle East, a few White House staffers got the opportunity to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican. One person who didn't make the cut: Devout Catholic Sean Spicer.
May 31: President Trump's late-night tweet decrying "negative press covfefe" set the internet on fire with its obvious typo, but by the next morning Spicer was telling reporters the whole thing was intentional. "I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant," he said.
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Bonus: Years before his short tenure as press secretary for the Trump Administration, Spicer held a different position under President Bush -- Easter Bunny at the White House Egg Roll.
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From dressing up as Easter Bunny to lying about inauguration
White House press secretary Sean Spicer stepped down on Friday, leaving behind a legacy of frequent errors, outright lies and a stellar impersonation by Melissa McCarthy.