# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/281 "2017-08-02T13:36:14Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “Legally, it may have been on the record, but the spirit of it was off. And he knew that.” Isn’t this the smoking gun when looking at ‘Da Mooch’ and his smarts? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/282 "2017-08-02T16:03:07Z")
Regarding various comments about Mooch’s or anyone else’s money — where did the idea come from that just because someone is rich _as in born that way or “fell in a pile of shit and found a fifty dollar bill”_ that means he is very smart and is an expert at everything (or anything for that matter)? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/283 "2017-08-02T16:21:22Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I present Exhibit Z in the case of Scaramucci v Abject Stupidity: > > [Scaramucci says vulgar remarks about Priebus, Bannon were a joke](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344896-scaramucci-says-vulgar-remarks-about-priebus-bannon-were-a-joke) Every statement by anyone in this administration is subject to becoming a “joke” when it backfires on the speaker. Do any of them actually make real jokes? I’ve never seen such a humor-deficient bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/284 "2017-08-02T19:04:07Z")
Some Twitterer posted the Trump Method as: - Deny - Deny - Deny - Get Caught - “I was just joking!” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/285 "2017-08-02T19:08:50Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Some Twitterer posted the Trump Method as: > > - Deny > - Deny > - Deny > - Get Caught > - “I was just joking!” - \*\*Clinton - Comey - Emails\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/286 "2017-08-02T19:09:32Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > …I don’t know. I think the jury is in on this one. Actually, the jury is out. That is, they have rendered their verdict, been thanked by the court, been excused and gone away to their separate homes. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/287 "2017-08-02T19:57:00Z")
What about Gilbert Godfried as a replacement? Such a shame that Sam Kinison is gone. He’d have been the perfect Trump representative. I wonder, did Scaramucci think he was meant to be President Trump’s [Anger Translator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAK9QRe4ds)? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/288 "2017-08-02T20:00:51Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Some Twitterer posted the Trump Method as: > > - Deny > - Deny > - Deny > - Get Caught > - “I was just joking!” That omits “Very unfair!” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/289 "2017-08-04T19:46:12Z")
I missed this prescient Rolling Stone article when it ran last week. Hysterical, with some background I hadn’t heard before. > **[Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing and All Too Short](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-and-all-too-short-198350/)** > > Glad-handing hedge-funder turned White House press chief has reignited the comic potential of Trump presidency. It’s too bad he won’t last past the end of this sentence ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/290 "2017-08-04T20:02:56Z")
“Making Anthony Scaramucci Communications Director because he dresses like the owner of a Lamborghini dealership fit like a glove with the Trump ethos.” Thanks, Ann! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/291 "2017-08-04T21:34:00Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I missed this prescient Rolling Stone article when it ran last week. Hysterical, with some background I hadn’t heard before. > > [Taibbi: Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing, Short](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-short-w494718) Hilarious article, thanks for that. Sometimes when I read all that stuff, I’m pinching myself thinking “Is this bizarro world?”. Maybe we all go down through this, but with a lot of good laughs at least… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/292 "2017-08-05T21:00:27Z")
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/293 "2017-08-05T21:40:05Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I missed this prescient Rolling Stone article when it ran last week. Hysterical, with some background I hadn’t heard before. > > [Taibbi: Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing, Short](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-short-w494718) “Bannon declined to comment on Scaramucci’s charge that he sucks his own cock.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/294 "2017-08-05T22:48:21Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Some Twitterer posted the Trump Method as: > > - Deny > - Deny > - Deny > - Get Caught > - “I was just joking!” I find the usual Trump message seems to be some variation of _“Yes, I did that but the news reports saying I did that are all lies.”_ ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/295 "2017-08-05T23:28:05Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I missed this prescient Rolling Stone article when it ran last week. Hysterical, with some background I hadn’t heard before. > > [Taibbi: Anthony Scaramucci Era Will Be Freakish, Embarrassing, Short](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-anthony-scaramucci-era-will-be-freakish-embarrassing-short-w494718) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/296 "2017-08-11T08:08:54Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Can we start speculating on who is going to play the part on SNL? > [@cmyk](#): > > [Bill Hader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hader) would be perfect. [I win.](https://youtu.be/NOY2GZ-uJuM) SNL Weekend Update: Summer Edition, 9 mins 10 seconds in. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265/297 "2017-08-11T22:13:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I present Exhibit Z in the case of Scaramucci v Abject Stupidity: > > [Scaramucci says vulgar remarks about Priebus, Bannon were a joke](http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344896-scaramucci-says-vulgar-remarks-about-priebus-bannon-were-a-joke) > > Scaramucci said about his obscenity laced interview with Ryan Lizza, “Legally, it may have been on the record, but the spirit of it was off. And he knew that.” > > The article states, “Despite feeling betrayed that Lizza published an account of the phone call, Scaramucci told the news outlet that they are old family friends.” > To which Lizza responds: “I’ve only known Anthony in his capacity as a Trump surrogate and then White House communications director. We are not and have never been ‘old family friends.'” > > I don’t know. I think the jury is in on this one. I recently read that one reporter gave him a new title … King Of Stupid Mountain [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-scaramucci-really-this-fucking-stupid/792265.md?page=14)