Rudy Special

An ill-planned, poorly thought out stunt that tries to sully an opponent’s reputation, but always backfire backfires in a Wile E. Coyote fashion. Pioneered by Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of NYC.

Dan Scavino, the keeper of the presidential Twitter feed and a deputy White House chief of staff for communications, eventually tweeted out the corrective, people familiar with the event said, while White House officials overall were rolling their eyes and dismissing the entire embarrassing episode as another “Rudy special.”