Donald Trump goes into panic mode, tries and fails to spin his violent tweet after Twitter buries it

| 2:32 pm EDT May 29, 2020
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First Donald Trump made a violent threat on his own Twitter account, only for Twitter to hide it from the timeline. Then Trump posted the same violent threat on the White House Twitter account, only for Twitter to once again pull the plug on him. Now Trump, who is as much of a coward as he is a bully, is now trying to insist that he didn’t actually say what he said last night.

Last night Trump threatened to send troops to Minneapolis, and vowed that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Now he’s trying to spin that by reframing it in this manner:

Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night – or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It’s very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!

Nice try, Donald. This isn’t even a good attempt at spin. Moreover, because Trump is once again talking about shooting people, there’s a chance that this tweet will also be taken down by Twitter. Meanwhile Trump’s press conference was supposed to start a half hour ago, and instead he’s still in cleanup mode online.