What a putz!
This will follow the established format. They'll get a bunch of negative attention and the manager will come out and say he was misunderstood, offer a non-apology and sweep it all under the rug. Why do people see the need to be putz's? He knows what is going to happen. He knows that now
300 million people knows that he is a putz.
And we know that he will do anything to extricate himself from this except be anything but a putz.