Twitter Mourns the End of Anthony Scaramucci’s Reign As Communications Director

Aidan McLaughlinJul 31st, 2017, 3:39 pm
 

He came in like a wrecking ball, and now, he’s out: after just 10 tumultuous days on the job as White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci was dismissed on Monday.

A statement released by the press secretary claimed Scaramucci “felt it was best” to give new chief of staff John Kelly “a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.”

Scaramucci’s tenure as communications director was a remarkably bonkers one, even for this White House: his hiring led to the resignation of press secretary Sean Spicer, and over the course of his ten days on the job, he waged war against now-former chief of staff Reince Priebus — leading to his firing — and supposed “leakers” in the White House. That’s not to mention his astonishingly crude on-the-record call with a New Yorker reporter, in which he accused Steve Bannon of autofellatio.

And the insanity wasn’t merely confined to his professional life: Scaramucci’s wife filed for divorce last week, citing her husband’s new job, and the Mooch missed the birth of his own son to attend Trump’s speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree.

Naturally, in a White House that provides an unyielding quantity of drama, there were plenty of jokes on Twitter in the aftermath of Mooch’s firing, as the social media platform descended into predictable chaos.

A roundup:

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Aidan McLaughlin is the former Editor in Chief of Mediaite.