Donald Trump returns from Twitter absence, goes incoherently berserk
Donald Trump skipped his traditional pre-dawn Twitter rant on Friday morning, which is very rare for him. In fact he didn’t tweet anything at all yesterday, beyond a video which was clearly posted by his staff. Then he skipped his pre-dawn Twitter rant today as well, raising questions about what was going on. Finally, hours later than usual, Trump finally returned to tweeting this morning. Suffice it to say that it wasn’t his best moment.
After having been essentially silent for two days, Trump suddenly reappeared out of nowhere today with a tweet that began “While we are on the subject…” Wait, what? When you’ve been quiet for that long, you’re no longer on any subject. But it turned out Trump was in fact still raging about Amazon, which he had attacked two mornings ago. This suggests that during his multi-day quiet period, Trump was in fact sitting around and thinking horrible thoughts about Amazon in his head the entire time.
There are differing explanations for why Trump might suddenly be so obsessed with Amazon. After Trump launched his first incoherent attack on the company on Thursday morning, his new campaign manager Brad Parscale posted a tweet negatively comparing Amazon’s user data collection to Facebook’s user data collection, which sounded like an attempt at distracting the public from the fact that the Trump campaign stole the user data from fifty million Facebook users. But now that Trump’s attack on Amazon has expanded nded to include the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon head Jeff Bezos, it’s possible Trump is attacking Amazon because he thinks the Post is about to drop a major Trump-Russia bombshell story.
In any case, Donald Trump kept going from there, posting this tweet while he was watching Fox News: “Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want?” Of course that’s a wildly misleading characterization of what happened. But we can in fact point to people in the Trump campaign and White House who have been accused of every one of those crimes, including Michael Flynn’s connection to an alleged kidnapping plot.
