Twitter Is Already Trolling Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci
Twitter is relentless.
Only hours into the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci to the position of White House communications director, internet users were digging into his past. People resurfaced some of Scaramucci’s old tweets and took particular liking to one funny mishap. The new director posted a tweet attributing a quote to author Mark Twain that is a little hard to believe.
“Dance like no one is watching,” Scaramucci tweeted back in 2012. “Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like its heaven on earth. Mark Twain.”
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like its heaven on earth. MarkTwain
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 15, 2012
Yeah we’re pretty sure Mark Twain never said that.
Quotes attributed to the wrong people have a tendency to resurface every few years, and this has been one of them. Snopes.com and QuoteInvestigator.com both have pieces on their websites attempting to track down this particular quote, which may have been adapted from a song, popularized by Kathy Mattea in her 1989 album release, called “Come From The Heart.”
You got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt,
You got to dance like nobody’s watchin’
It’s gotta come from the heart
Twitter users didn’t hesitate in mocking Scaramucci for the mistake.
"Na na na na na na na nana
Na na na na nana
Gettin jiggy wit it" -- Nelson Mandela— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) July 21, 2017
"Cash me outside, how bow dah?" RalphWaldoEmerson
— Ken Fitzgerald (@loudlong) July 21, 2017
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
— Ke$ha— Owen Williams 🏴 (@OwsWills) July 21, 2017
never gonna
give you
up
never gonna let
you
down
never gonna
run
around and
desert
you
-William Carlos Williams— Ninjanun (@Ninjanun) July 22, 2017
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
- Vincent van Gogh— Amator Culorum (@Amator_Culorum) July 22, 2017
Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games
We got everything you want, honey we know the names
-Upton Sinclair— Kelly Kizer Whitt (@Astronomommy) July 22, 2017
"When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears" -Albert Einstein— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) July 21, 2017
I like to move it move it.
-Eleanor Roosevelt— Jenn Welch (@JennWelchNow) July 22, 2017
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
-Chumbawamba— scha·den·freu·de (@BlisterPearl) July 22, 2017
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality."
- Sean Spicer— Michele Desoer (@mmdesoer) July 22, 2017
You put the boom boom into my heart,
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts.
- Hammurabi— John Lovett (@jlove1982) July 22, 2017
It’s honestly hard to believe we’re only a day into Scaramucci’s tenure and the jokes are already this good.
Scaramucci announced on Saturday afternoon that he would be deleting his old tweets to focus on President Donald Trump’s agenda. The communications director called it an act of “full transparency.”
“Full transparency: I’m deleting old tweets,” Scaramucci tweeted. “Past views evolved & shouldn’t be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that’s all that matters.”
This story has been updated to include Scaramucci’s announcement.
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