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Posted: 2019-11-01T02:22:28Z | Updated: 2019-11-01T02:22:28Z Mitt Romney's Grandson Trolls Him With Pierre Delecto Halloween Costume | HuffPost

Mitt Romney's Grandson Trolls Him With Pierre Delecto Halloween Costume

Thomas Romney dressed up as the senator's recently exposed Twitter persona.

Sen. Mitt Romney  (R-Utah) is being teased by his family for his formerly secret Twitter lurker persona .

The onetime presidential candidate was recently exposed by Slate reporter Ashley Feinberg for operating a Twitter account under the name Pierre Delecto after Romney admitted, during an interview with The Atlantic , that he had a lurker profile for keeping tabs on political conversations.

By checking the limited number of accounts followed by the Pierre Delecto account which happened to include much of Romney’s offspring, former advisers and aides and reporters who covered his campaigns Feinberg was able to deduce that it was likely none other than the senator from Utah.

The profile also happened to tweet and like tweets that were pro-Romney and had liked quite a few tweets that called Trump’s fitness for office into question.

After the story broke, Romney, aka Delecto, confirmed  to The Atlantic that it was true in just two words: “C’est moi.”

On Thursday, Romney’s grandson embraced the senator’s alter-ego by channeling it in his Halloween costume complete with curly mustache and beret:

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