Trump's New Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci Gets Clowned Over Old Tweet of a Fake Mark Twain Quote

We may need to brush up on our Mark Twain.

July 22, 2017

JULY 21: Anthony Scaramucci attends the daily White House press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer quit after it was announced that Trump hired Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and longtime supporter, to the position of White House communications director.
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Whenever someone gets brought onto the Trump administration, it seems like it's only a matter of time before that person does something incredibly sketchy or embarrassing. Luckily for new communications director Anthony Scaramucci, it's the latter...so far.

A tweet from Scaramucci in 2012 where he references a quote by Mark Twain started making the rounds just after his new job was announced, and it doesn't take an English major to realize that the new communications director has been given some fake news.

The website Quote Investigator looked into Scaramucci's tweet and determined that the quote is a changed-over-time variation of lyrics from the song "Come From the Heart," co-written by Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh.

As expected, people let Scaramucci have it as only Twitter can.