"Keep America Great" MAGAhat wearers are going to have to break out their sharpies.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.President Donald Trump spent his event-free Mother’s Day posting up a storm — sending the sort of public statements that would have been cause for national concern in any previous era.
When the smoked cleared, the 126 tweets or retweets Trump posted ending up being one of his most prolific posting days in history, falling just 16 short of the single-day posting record he set during his impeachment trial in January.
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The president amplified a number of accounts that have promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory about Democrats being involved in a pedophilia cult, retweeted accounts without avatars and with few followers that he somehow found on the fringes of the internet, and desperately tried to change the topic from the coronavirus by working to settle old scores with his perceived foes in politics and the media.
The meltdown continued into Monday morning.
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Trump at one point on Sunday obliviously retweeted a post he may have misread that criticizes Attorney General Bill Barr’s Department of Justice as “corrupt.” The account that posted that tweet described the situation as “perplexing” and joked, “My notifications are filled with flying monkeys and a bunch of Qanons welcoming me to the Twilight Zone.”
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More than three years into his presidency, it’s not exactly news that he’s posting bad tweets. But there are a number of notable themes deserving of attention that have emerged from Trump’s latest Twitter binge.
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Trump has spent the last week trying to change the topic by working to demonize former President Obama, claiming his predecessor is the mastermind behind the Russia investigation that nearly ended his presidency. (Fox News has helped with this effort.)
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From Sunday through late Monday morning, Trump posted seven tweets or retweets about “OBAMAGATE,” which he proclaimed “makes Watergate look small time!”
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All of this comes on the heels of the Yahoo News publication of leaked audio from a call last Friday in which Obama can be heard criticizing Trump’s handling of the coronavirus as “an absolute chaotic disaster,” while warning that Attorney General Barr’s unusual move to drop the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn reflects how “our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”
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The president also lashed out at the media. He responded to a 60 Minutes segment critical of his administration’s move to cut funding for a coronavirus researcher who has been working with Chinese researchers on possible Covid-19 treatments and vaccines by accusing CBS of “doing everything within their power ... to defend China and the horrible Virus pandemic that was inflicted on the USA and the rest of the World” — ignoring that he too defended China’s handling of the coronavirus right up until the point when finding a scapegoat became important to him.
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On Sunday, Meet the Press apologized for airing an out-of-context clip of Barr defending his move to drop the case against Flynn. It really wasn’t that big of a deal, but because host Chuck Todd offered commentary that was critical of Barr’s move to drop the case, Trump used it as an opportunity to post a string of tweets demanding he be fired.
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In any previous era, the president using his platform to call for a private company to fire employees he doesn’t like would be a major scandal. So would the president promoting a business he still owns and profits from, as Trump did on Sunday morning
In the Trump era, however, these are just a few of the dozens of ill-conceived public statements the president made on a given morning.
Vox
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