# Is Scaramucci really this fucking stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265 "2017-07-27T15:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/1 "2017-07-27T15:07:13Z")
The guy was a financier making billions yet as soon as he gets to the White House he starts putting out dumb tweets labeling the release of his financial disclosure at the Export-Import Bank as a felony. What the fuck? As the [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/27/scaramucci-if-reince-wants-to-explain-that-hes-not-a-leaker-let-him-do-that/) reports _the public can request to see these documents, and the article notes that the form is “publicly available upon request.”_ Does he really not know this? A financier and not know about the most basic of financial regulations? I am totally puzzled by this. Trump too does it all the time, Spicer did it, they all fucking do it, make statements completely opposed to the facts and easily checkable by anyone with access to the net. This is beyond weird. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/2 "2017-07-27T15:11:46Z")
I think the best explanation so far for so many of the fuckups of Trump and his team have been simply stupidity and carelessness. These are incompetent and stupid people, for the most part. And they’re all working together, magnifying and bouncing back-and-forth the stupid decisions. They’re not stupid about everything – obviously they connected to a big segment of the voting public. But they’re, so far, very stupid about governing (related to any other presidency – maybe smarter than the local lawn care business), managing information, coordinating actions, etc. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/3 "2017-07-27T15:15:02Z")
**Is Scaramucci really this fucking stupid?** He’s a member of the Cheeto’s disadministration, so the answer is a definite YES! ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/4 "2017-07-27T15:18:17Z")
I really wish there was a real life Tony Soprano, to repeatedly slam a Cadillac door on his damn head. The guy oozes slime. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/5 "2017-07-27T15:19:15Z")
He was hired to be the Mouth of Sauron. Honestly and transparency went out the window the very second he took the job. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/6 "2017-07-27T15:26:53Z")
FTR, Scaramucci didn’t make billions. His net worth is estimated to be somewhere between 44 and 64 million. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/7 "2017-07-27T15:32:06Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > He was hired to be the Mouth of Sauron. Honestly and transparency went out the window the very second he took the job. How can things go out the window if they never existed in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/8 "2017-07-27T15:34:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How can things go out the window if they never existed in the first place? He was quite socially liberal, publicly, even up to just last year. > **[Read Anthony Scaramucci’s old tweets. You’ll understand why he deleted them.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/22/read-anthony-scaramuccis-old-tweets-youll-understand-why-he-deleted-them/)** > > "I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & and shouldn't be a distraction,” Scaramucci said. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/9 "2017-07-27T15:39:11Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > He was hired to be the Mouth of Sauron. Honestly and transparency went out the window the very second he took the job. You will be hearing from Lord Sauron’s lawyers. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/10 "2017-07-27T15:41:22Z")
Scaramucci is just doing the fandango. Thunderbolt and lightning, not very frightening to me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/11 "2017-07-27T15:41:36Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > He was quite socially liberal, publicly, even up to just last year. > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/22/read-anthony-scaramuccis-old-tweets-youll-understand-why-he-deleted-them/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/22/read-anthony-scaramuccis-old-tweets-youll-understand-why-he-deleted-them/) Was he really or did he “evolve” in the past to get to where he just evolved from? How could anyone, this late in life, truly make a complete 180 on so many major issues in such a short period of time? From your link. > [@](#): > > In an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Scaramucci said his politics and ideals “don’t matter at all” and that he’s “subordinating” them to President Trump’s agenda. I wouldn’t count him as a real anything besides a mercenary. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/12 "2017-07-27T15:58:55Z")
Alpha male business bigwigs just can’t grasp the notion that people in DC don’t work for them, have no reason to show loyalty, do what they think will get them re-elected, and don’t consider it their job to please the White House. Impressing and intimidating flunkies may have got them ahead in their own businesses, but DC wasn’t built that way. They don’t understand the Constitution was designed to prevent self-entitled monarchs from achieving power, and they are those monarchs. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/13 "2017-07-27T16:19:31Z")
The guy became an idiot the day he started working for Trump. The rational choice would’ve been to take all those billions he has and go live in a quiet, tropical paradise somewhere. If he has a need for stress and excitement, that’s what rock climbing and jumping out of planes is for. I don’t get these people. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/14 "2017-07-27T17:05:34Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Does he really not know this? A financier and not know about the most basic of financial regulations? I am totally puzzled by this. Trump too does it all the time, Spicer did it, they all fucking do it, make statements completely opposed to the facts and easily checkable by anyone with access to the net. This is beyond weird. He and they know this, but they realize that some 90% of the public doesn’t and of those 90% won’t bother to check. So at a rough scale 20% will realize he’s lying but 80% will take him at his word and think that he is the vicitm. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/15 "2017-07-27T17:19:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Was he really or did he “evolve” in the past to get to where he just evolved from? > How could anyone, this late in life, truly make a complete 180 on so many major issues in such a short period of time? Money. Power. Fame. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/16 "2017-07-27T17:40:45Z")
Lack of true principle. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/17 "2017-07-27T17:57:24Z")
Well, if you’re following someone with the name of Spicer, you’ve got to kick it up a notch! > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Scaramucci is just doing the fandango. > > Thunderbolt and lightning, not very frightening to me. So, Scaramucci just doesn’t _scare you muchly_? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/18 "2017-07-27T18:38:42Z")
Scary mook. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/19 "2017-07-27T18:55:30Z")
And when he wanted to make a point about dignity and respect he quoted… Joe Paterno. Because when respect for the office of POTUS is in question, of course you want to bring up a guy who covered up child sex abuse. (I’ll provide a cite later when I’m on my computer if anyone wants.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/20 "2017-07-27T19:04:28Z")
And its not that he’s that stupid. It’s that he hopes _we_ are. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265.md?page=2)