After Donald Trump fails on his second visit to Texas floods, he’s reduced to trash talking Hillary Clinton

| 11:49 pm EDT September 2, 2017
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Donald Trump visited Texas on Saturday for the second time since it was ravaged by post-hurricane, because his first visit was such a tone-deaf debacle. Trump’s “do over” ended up going even worse, as he spent his time in a shelter congratulating people and talking about the size of his hands (link). Perhaps realizing that he’d blown it yet again, Trump then resorted to the only thing he still seems to enjoy: trash talking his former opponent Hillary Clinton.

On Saturday evening, shortly after returning from Texas to spend a rare weekend at the White House, Donald Trump decided to begin tweeting and retweeting things that were various levels of inappropriate. First he posted a video of himself taking a selfie with a hurricane survivor in a shelter, because it’s apparently all about himself. Then he retweeted a nice quote that his wife had given about the hurricane relief effort, which would have been fine, except the account he retweeted belongs to an obscure alt-crazy political site whose front page is adorned with a gender slur. But then Trump made an even stranger move.

This was when Donald Trump decided that the best way to make up for his insensitive remarks at the Texas flood shelter would be to retweet this trash talking nonsense about Hillary Clinton:

It’s far from the worst thing that Trump has ever tweeted or retweeted, but the timing of it was particularly off-putting. From there Trump went on to brag about economic indicators while displaying no understanding that the slowing growth of the indicators suggests he’s already ruining President Obama’s strong economy. This is apparently the kind of “work” that Trump was referring to when he said he was “spending weekend working at White House.” Frankly, he’d be doing less damage if he were out golfing instead.