Anthony Scaramucci Launches "Scaramucci Post"

In July, Anthony Scaramucci arrived in D.C. like a comet. During his ten days as White House Communications Director, he burned brilliantly, and perhaps too intensely, before flaming out and crashing. The presence of Mooch, as he is affectionately known, was so overpowering that the news of his appointment alone led Sean Spicer, then-White House Press Secretary, to resign in protest.

During his first week, he called The New Yorker out of the blue and gave an absolutely bonkers interview in which he railed against Reince Priebus, then-White House Chief of Staff, and Steve Bannon, then-White House Chief Strategist. On the day Priebus left the White House, the new Chief of Staff John Kelly promptly fired Scaramucci. Since that day two months ago, all has been quiet on the ’Mucci front, save for one odd thing that had blown in the winds of Twitter: The Scaramucci Post.

Since August, Scaramucci has tweeted from an account called @ScaramucciPost. It seemed apparent that Scaramucci was prepping to launch a news publication, but with such little detail as to what kind of publication it would be, speculations began to run amok: Would it be a conservative mouthpiece, a la Breitbart? A blog about Scaramucci’s life? Yesterday, we finally got (some) answers. Turns out, the Scaramucci Post sounds… kinda boring.

“The tagline of the Scaramucci Post will be ‘Everything in moderation… including moderation,’” Scaramucci said in a video announcement of his project posted to Twitter. “It will be about what is right and wrong in society, rather than what is left and right.” He also explained that The Scaramucci Post will be a “center lane in a two-lane highway.”

Now a word from Scaramucci</a> about the <a href="https://twitter.com/ScaramucciPost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">ScaramucciPost pic.twitter.com/lH0oMQYx6z

— ScaramucciPost (@ScaramucciPost) September 27, 2017

So it sounds like The Scaramucci Post will be a centrist paper about… stuff? The focus and scope of his latest project still remain unclear, though one could guess it will probably have something to do with politics. Either way, it hardly sounds like the product of the profane, firecracker conservative mouthpiece that dominated the headlines during his tumultuous stay in the Trump administration, which is, frankly, a little disappointing to those hoping for an Infowars analog with a thick Long Island accent. (Imagine it: “Ayyy, the shit in the watah is turnin’ the frogs gay! Badabing! Let’s go Mets!")

Anyway, nobody seems to have much faith in the project. Gizmodo put it bluntly in their assessment of Scaramucci's update, aptly titled "The Mooch Has No Idea What He's Doing." Fast Company wrote wrote that the project's aim is "unclear…especially coming from a man like Scaramucci who is as much of a centrist as Big Bird is a normal-size bird."

Twitter users mostly mocked the vague terminology of The Mooch’s update, and cast doubts that a supposedly centrist publication with a murky mission statement would survive in this crushing climate for news media.

I feel like I’m watching someone slowly descend into madness. https://t.co/UGf0eAGRa0

— Anthony De Rosa 🗽 (@Anthony) September 27, 2017

"the scaramucci post can best be described as the fourth wheel on a tricycle"

— cale g weissman (@caleweissman) September 27, 2017

Straightforward from here:1. Mooch Post yuge traffic2. Trump jealous3. Trump back to TV4. WH empty5. Mooch-led coup6. President Mooch

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) September 27, 2017

The Scaramucci Post launches October 2nd.