Donald Trump suffers bizarre new Twitter malfunction

| 9:09 am EDT September 23, 2019
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When it comes to screwing up on Twitter, Donald Trump has had some doozies. He can’t spell just about anything, and he refuses to use the nearly infinite resources of his office to compensate for it. He doesn’t understand how quotes work. He ends up tweeting things like “covfefe” for no apparent reason. Now he’s gone and committed one of his more bizarre Twitter malfunctions to date.

It all started when the Iowa Starting Line tweeted that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke got huge cheers from the Iowa crowd when he pushed for gun control. Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell quoted this tweet and sarcastically added “What! You can’t talk about gun safety in Iowa! – Says every pundit working off a 1980s playbook.”

Donald Trump then “liked” Swalwell’s tweet. This suggested that Trump either didn’t bother to read the tweet before liking it, or he can’t read, or he clicked “like” by accident. It raises the question of why Trump was even looking at a tweet from Swalwell, let alone being anywhere near the “like” button while he was doing it.

Eric Swalwell fired back accordingly, cleverly working in a line from The Princess Bride in the process: “Ummm, Donald Trump, you just liked my #gunsafety tweet. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Half a day later, Trump still hadn’t bothered to “unlike” the tweet. Trump frequently reminds us that he’s lazy and incompetent at all the big things. This strange incident is a reminder that he’s lazy and incompetent when it comes to the small things as well.