Trump Anthony Scaramucci Delete Tweets Transparency

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President Donald Trump's new Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci, already has people talking — less than a week after being appointed to the job. The Wall Street financier (or "American entrepreneur," according to his Twitter bio), has been criticized for not having the necessary experience for the role — a fact which caused former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to resign last week.

Now, after old tweets of Scaramucci's surfaced that showed him at-odds with his new boss on issues ranging from climate change, immigration, LGBTQ rights, and gun control, among other things, he's announced that he's deleted his old tweets for "transparency."

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Full transparency: I'm deleting old tweets. Past views evolved & shouldn't be a distraction. I serve @POTUS agenda & that's all that matters
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 22, 2017

Scaramucci says that his past views have "evolved." Those views previously included calling Trump "an odd guy" with "no judgment" and "a hack," and expressing support for Hillary Clinton's candidacy, The Washington Post reports.

He appeared on CNN's State of the Union this morning, denying to Jake Tapper that he is changing or ignoring his beliefs and values for the sake of power, calling the accusations "a ridiculous, Washington sort of narrative."

"All I'm doing by deleting the tweets is sending people a message," @Scaramucci tells @jaketapper in fiery exchange https://t.co/ZogFMemh90
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 23, 2017

However, some people are pointing out that, in deleting the tweets from the record, Scaramucci is being the opposite of transparent.

Reupping: Been laughing all day since @Scaramucci called rewriting history "transparency." And wondering just WHO it was he reminded me of pic.twitter.com/VgYkVAbAbx
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 23, 2017

"If I'm for something then I'm against something all of a sudden I'm a hypocrite." - @Scaramucci, stating a fact
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) July 23, 2017

For his part, President Trump seems unconcerned with Scaramucci's past statements, tweeting his support for his new Comms Director, and claiming that Scaramucci wanted to endorse Trump before the Republican primaries, but Scaramucci didn't know Trump was planning to run.

In all fairness to Anthony Scaramucci, he wanted to endorse me 1st, before the Republican Primaries started, but didn't think I was running!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017

On his SOTU appearance this morning, Scaramucci went commented on newly appointed White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' hair and makeup during a press conference on Friday, indicating he would like to "continue to use" that hair and makeup person.

.@Scaramucci to WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "I'd like to continue to use the hair and make up person" https://t.co/wiXGTpKYBq
— CNN (@CNN) July 23, 2017