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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 12:21 PM Jun 2017

Dan Scavino is the other @realdonaldtrump

The White House social media director is the president's alter ego, mini-me, and id on Twitter.

By ELIANA JOHNSON 06/10/2017 07:22 AM EDT

The White House is brimming with aides, lawyers, and communications gurus who are begging President Donald Trump to stop tweeting. The lone exception is Dan Scavino, the president’s former golf caddy who now oversees the White House’s messaging on social media. Scavino is in many ways the president’s mini-me, a man whose bombast, impulse control, and instinct for a good punch match those of his boss.

After Trump last weekend blasted London Mayor Sadiq Khan after a terror attack that killed eight people, Scavino posted a message citing Khan’s own 2016 criticism of Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims and terrorism—complete with a Trumpian, all-caps “WAKE UP!!!!”

And like his boss, Scavino has ignored warnings from high-level White House officials to tone down his tweets. Scavino was reprimanded on Friday for violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits senior executive branch officials from using their authority to interfere with elections, by calling in April for the ouster of Michigan Republican Justin Amash.

Steve Schmidt, a former George W. Bush administration official who served as campaign manager for John McCain in 2008, said Scavino’s remarks demonstrated “no sense of probity or dignity.”

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Dan Scavino is the other @realdonaldtrump (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
Scavino is a moron. Went to my high school. Lucky Luciano Jun 2017 #1

Lucky Luciano

(11,261 posts)
1. Scavino is a moron. Went to my high school.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:42 PM
Jun 2017

His intellect suggests he should still be a caddy. He was not known to be bright at all. People in his grade have said that if not for the shitgibbon, he would probably be a middle aged dude working in a Home Depot or something.

Incidentally, Rebekah Mercer also was in our school. She and her sisters were very smart (apparently evil though) and would never have associated with a scavino type back in high school as they were the type that only associated with honors students. Funny they both are on team drumpfkopf totally independently.

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