Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) confirmation that he used an anonymous Twitter account has drawn praise, criticism and laughs.
{mosads}Some Republicans, including President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., jabbed Romney for anonymously critiquing the media under the Twitter pseudonym Pierre Delecto, which the Utah senator acknowledged owning on Sunday.
The anonymous account apparently tweeted in Romney’s defense at journalists and detractors.
“They’re using him and he doesn’t even get it. Sad!” Trump Jr. tweeted.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) described the senator’s previously unknown Twitter account as “sad” too.
“Hiding behind a pseudonym is what kids, cowards, couch potatoes, or perverts like ‘Carlos Danger’ do,” Huckabee tweeted, referring to the pseudonym former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) used to send explicit photos.
Radio host Mark Levin asked if Romney was 14 years old.
Others, though, had more positive reactions to Romney’s revelation, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, who responded in French that he approved.
Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, took pride in the fact that Pierre Delecto follows him on Twitter.
Jon Favreau, a speechwriter for former President Obama, jumped in and said, “It gives me no pleasure to report that I will be laughing at Trump’s first Pierre Delecto tweet.”
CNN host Jake Tapper brought past pseudonyms of President Trump and Weiner into the conversation with the beginning of a bar joke.
Slate’s Ashley Feinberg discovered the account after the senator mentioned in a Sunday profile in The Atlantic that he used a private Twitter account to keep tabs on politics in the social media sphere.