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Oct 20, 2022
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By the time UK Prime Minister Liz Truss finished giving her resignation speech at a podium in front of Downing Street on Thursday morning, people were already tweeting mockery and jokes about the length of her tenure.
After 44 days of holding office, Truss announced her intention to resign given the turbulent political situation unfolding in her government.
Truss' premiership had been compared to a rotting head of iceberg lettuce so there was no end to the memes and jokes made about the (almost) former PM on social media.
Even Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director who lasted just 11 days under Donald Trump, got in on the banter.
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"Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis," he tweeted Thursday morning.
Scaramucci was one of the shortest-serving White House Communications Directors - lasting just 10 days - and his name has been used as a measure of political longevity ever since.
He also suggested two new units of longevity measurement...
\u201cLiz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis\u201d— Anthony Scaramucci (@Anthony Scaramucci) 1666270105
\u201c1 Scaramucci = carton of milk \n1 Truss = head of lettuce\u201d— Anthony Scaramucci (@Anthony Scaramucci) 1666270942
Others piled in at the outgoing Prime Minister's expense...
\u201cNow we know, in the "political system" of time measurement, a Truss is exactly four Scaramuccis.\u201d— Andrew Solender (@Andrew Solender) 1666269565
\u201c4 scaramuccis = 1 truss!\u201d— ian bremmer (@ian bremmer) 1666270952
\u201cA Scaramucci is imperial: 11 days\n\nA Truss is metric: 44 days\u201d— Travis Akers (@Travis Akers) 1666273120
\u201cThe Truss to Scaramucci exchange rate is just what I needed to start this morning. This has to be one of the shortest first world terms that didn\u2019t involve assassination or other sudden death.\u201d— scorpshockey (@scorpshockey) 1666274152
Other people mocked Truss by saying they had food that outlasted her premiership from the infamous head of lettuce to cheese, ice cream, bread, and more.
\u201cFor those keeping score, Liz Truss\u2019s time as PM was\u2026\n\n12 days longer than Ethel Merman\u2019s marriage to Ernest Borgnine\n\n34 days longer than Anthony Scaramucci\u2019s tenure as WH comms director \n\n20 days shorter than the average gestation period for cats\n\nA disaster\u201d— David Kamp (@David Kamp) 1666272880
Truss' resignation comes after political chaos unfolded in the House of Commons this week. Last Friday Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer following backlash for a proposed mini-budget that sank the pound sterling.
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