Donald Trump goes berserk and misquotes himself, then quotes a Trump impersonator
It took him a day and a half, but Donald Trump has finally gone completely off the deep end over Robert Mueller’s grand jury indictments against Russians who conspired to rig the election in Trump’s favor. Trump isn’t merely railing against the investigation or the facts, like he usually does. He’s gone to such a weird place that he’s wildly misquoting one of his own most famous quotes, and he’s inexplicably quoting a Trump impersonator.
Now that the indictments confirm the Russians had an elaborate and years-long plot to rig the election for Trump, it’s put Trump in a difficult corner, because he’s spent the past year insisting that the meddling never happened. This morning he tweeted this: “I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said ‘it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer.’ The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia – it never did!” Wait, that’s not even the quote.
Here’s what Trump actually said during the debate in 2016: “I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?” That’s the same general gist as what Trump quoted above, but most of the words don’t even match up. There would have been no harm in paraphrasing himself, but why go so far as to pretend that he’s quoting himself when he’s not even close? Then it got weirder.
Trump decided to retweet a juvenile attack on CNN that had been posted by one of his followers, while adding his own quip “The Fake News of big ratings loser CNN.” Okay, so this is just Trump’s usual antics, right? Not really, because the Twitter account he quoted is @RrealDJTrump which is some kind of parody or impersonation of his own @RealDonaldTrump account. These are the kind of Twitter usernames people use when they’re pretending to be Trump. At this point Trump is so far gone, he didn’t even realize he was quoting a Trump imposter.
