In the aftermath of his explosive firing after serving as White House Communications Director for only 10 days, Anthony Scaramucci made the rounds. He appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, co-hosted TMZ, and launched an inexplicable social media enterprise dubbed “The Scaramucci Post.” Several weeks later, no one is entirely sure what the latter truly is, but one thing is clear: Scaramucci loves polls. The Twitter account frequently hosts polls to determine which major news media accounts it should follow, what the biggest political issues of the day are, and what people think about them.
Like the Holocaust, during which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany systemically murdered over six million European Jews and millions more from various religious, ethnic and cultural groups throughout World War II. Tuesday morning, The Scaramucci Post’s Twitter account decided to ask its followers a question about the historical matter: “How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?”
Considering the scope of Holocaust denial, as well as the Trump administration’s apparent acceptance of modern American Nazis, white supremacists and similarly hateful groups, it’s no surprise the poll immediately drew flak for it’s being posted in the first place. Or as CNN’s Jake Tapper rather bluntly phrased it, “What the actual f— is this, @Scaramucci?”
What the actual f— is this, @Scaramucci? https://t.co/LlZ6Q16Utl
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 17, 2017
holy shit, wtf is anthony scaramucci doing pic.twitter.com/34rnkAolp3
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/colincampbell/status/920275607212183552
Condemnation notwithstanding, Twitter was quick to vilify Scaramucci and his indiscernible social media endeavors with jokes.
Scaramucci is on minute 102 of his 15 minutes
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) October 17, 2017
it's very odd that Scaramucci has even been talked about for as long as he has
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/NaveedAJamali/status/920274836361842689
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/920275018898124800
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/920277497455038464
The whole internet loves Scaramucci Post, a vague Twitter account tied to a former Trump adviser *5 seconds later* we regret to inform y
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 17, 2017
In several follow-up tweets, Tapper quoted a source close to Scaramucci who said he was “furious” about the poll: “[H]e’s going to take immediate disciplinary action. At least one person is getting fired.”
2/2 and “he’s going to take immediate disciplinary action. At least one person is getting fired.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 17, 2017
The offending tweet was subsequently taken down and replace with a string of tweets from the account. Lance Laifer, the creator and co-founder of Hedge Funds vs. Malaria & Pneumonia (and Taye Diggs’ former “social media maestro,” per GQ), took responsiblity.
https://twitter.com/ScaramucciPost/status/920274523324329985
https://twitter.com/ScaramucciPost/status/920274958126927872
https://twitter.com/ScaramucciPost/status/920275331268993024