Looks like Anthony Scaramucci is already ghostwriting Donald Trump’s latest deranged tweets
Last week we pointed out that the Twitter posts supposedly written by Donald Trump himself over the past few weeks had been rather clearly ghostwritten by someone else who was trying and failing to impersonate his manic style (link). Based on the phrasing, our best guess was that Kellyanne Conway was behind it. The day after we published our article, Trump’s tweets reverted back to his trademark style, suggesting he’d taken our article as a challenge and decided to reclaim his phone. But his latest Twitter rant this morning points to a new ghostwriter.
Take for instance this tweet that Donald Trump supposedly wrote this morning: “My son Donald openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!” (link). There are a couple things that stand out here. For instance, a Google search of Trump’s Twitter history reveals that he almost never uses the word “whereas,” and he certainly wouldn’t have used it when he could have gotten away with a simpler word like “but.” And while he used to spell it “e-mail” in years past, he shifted to consistently spelling it “email” about a year ago. Nice try, but Donald Trump didn’t write this tweet.
And then there’s this tweet, also from this morning, supposedly written by Trump: “So many people are asking why isn’t the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?” (link). While Donald Trump originally misspelled “Counsel” as “Council” when Robert Mueller was first appointed, and was widely lampooned for it, he’s learned from his mistake and he’s since been spelling it correctly. Oh and there’s this tweet that seems to give away who really wrote Trump’s tweets this morning: “In all fairness to Anthony Scaramucci, he wanted to endorse me 1st, before the Republican Primaries started, but didn’t think I was running!”
So this morning’s Twitter rant was definitively not written by Donald Trump. Instead the entirety of it was penned by someone who has been following him on Twitter for some time, and is generally familiar with his particular literacy failings, but who couldn’t quite the details wrong in the right way. And yet these new tweets don’t read like the ghostwritten tweets from earlier this month. Considering that Trump just hired Anthony Scaramucci to be his new Communications Director yesterday, our best guess is that Scaramucci is now the one impersonating Trump on Twitter. But here’s the bizarre part: Trump appears to have given up to the point that he can’t even bothered to write his own angry screeds anymore.
