Rudy Giuliani set Twitter alight on Friday after it emerged that he’d butt-dialed and left voicemails for an investigative NBC reporter twice in three weeks.
The former New York mayor, who is now President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, was reportedly heard talking about needing money and ranting about the president’s potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden in the recordings received by Rich Schapiro.
It prompted some people to share their own stories of being inadvertently called by Giuliani:
While we’re telling Rudy butt dial stories... he once texted me a voice memo recording of himself talking to a guy. I couldn’t make any sense of it or figure out how he managed to text me a recording inadvertently. https://t.co/SZT09jnOEv
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 25, 2019
everyone has a good Rudy butt dial story. I've heard him on what sounded like a plane, at the airport, at what sounded like a bar. "SIR, SIR! HELLO!" Alas.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 25, 2019
Others just poked fun at the lawyer over the bizarre incident:
rudy giuliani’s butt...............welcome to the resistance
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 25, 2019
Found the whistleblower: Rudy's ass https://t.co/Hp3lHTzELy
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 25, 2019
Ugh. Sorry to bother you guys.
— andy lassner (@andylassner) October 25, 2019
I just heard from @RudyGiuliani again.
He asked that I remind everyone that his DMs are open and he’d like to hear your thoughts on his butt dial incident
booty guiliani https://t.co/YmbpDDvbhL
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) October 25, 2019
Wow, the Google Alert "Rudy Giuliani" and "butt" I set 5 years ago is going crazy!
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) October 25, 2019
i got 6 days to get my sexy "Giuliani butt dial" costume together.
— Julia Azari (@julia_azari) October 25, 2019
Rudy, you can butt dial me if you’d like
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 25, 2019
We... worked on these FOIAs for a year... and... he just butt-dialed it out.https://t.co/4j3LU4hMcB
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) October 25, 2019
Rudy is killing it at this lawyer thing lately. Just crushing it https://t.co/7m1kpoDCZV
— Quid Pro Joe (@JoePerticone) October 25, 2019
the Giuliani butt-dial story confirms it's high time we rename the entire network of Trump scandal and corruption. it's Boomergate now
— Miles Klee (@MilesKlee) October 25, 2019
hearing reports that giuliani has crashed through the ceiling of the new york times with a box labeled CRIME SECRETS
— Sarah Lazarus (@sarahclazarus) October 25, 2019
we’ve officially entered “producers of scripted TV would reject this for not being believable enough” territory https://t.co/0tWxSAENnb
— Caroline McCarthy (@caro) October 25, 2019
And I know when that hotline bling
— Kyle Feldscher (@Kyle_Feldscher) October 25, 2019
That can only mean one thing ... we need money. https://t.co/vyan9ksime
to leave one dubious butt-dial voicemail for a reporter may be regarded as a misfortune; to leave two looks like carelessness, as Oscar Wilde didn’t say https://t.co/HMEl5bJaiJ
— Alexandra Petrified (@petridishes) October 25, 2019
Ironically, Butt-Dial is Giuliani's Secret Service name#ButtHisVoicemails #ButtDial
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 25, 2019
Surely you can only butt-dial someone these days if you disable your phone auto-lock? You might recall that Giuliani was Trump's cybersecurity advisor
— Alastair Coote (@_alastair) October 25, 2019
Trump's anticipated defense of Giuliani: "It was the PERFECT butt dial. The most beautiful butt dial, really."
— Wajahat "Get Over It" Ali (@WajahatAli) October 25, 2019
A History Classroom in the Future:
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) October 26, 2019
TEACHER: Ok kids, today we study the period of Trump Presidency
CLASS: Pee Tape! Pee Tape!
TEACHER: No, not yet. We first do Trump's staff, starting with his attorney, Rudy Giuliani
CLASS: Butt dial! Butt dial!#ButtHisVoicemails #ButtDial
If a BUTT-DIAL takes down Giuliani and possibly even Trump that would be sweet sweet poetry. https://t.co/WNb1mJKcmH
— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) October 25, 2019
The butt-dial heard around the world... https://t.co/iq69DpVzAz
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) October 25, 2019
The real victim here is @TheOnion which is being outdone by real life https://t.co/tx6vXwwmtc
— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) October 25, 2019
Rudy keeps talking out of his ass, etc...etc.... https://t.co/pOir2vA2hG
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 25, 2019
Giuliani's butt disagreed with his decision to blow off the House's subpoena.
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) October 25, 2019
the shot is good, the chaser elevates the entire thing into the stratosphere https://t.co/RKmJknei4l pic.twitter.com/EXT8IchKji
— Mark Berman (@markberman) October 25, 2019
You would never believe this in an HBO drama.
— A Cat In The Lonesome October (@catvalente) October 25, 2019
Season 3 Episode 6: The One with the Butt-Dialhttps://t.co/AO3oQZqGwV
GIULIANI'S BUTT IS THE WHISTLEBLOWER
— Krister Johnson (@KristerJohnson) October 25, 2019
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