Donald Trump goes berserk again, retweets someone calling him a fascist and someone depicting a murder
After Donald Trump was finally pressured into belatedly halfway doing the right thing by condemning white supremacists on Monday, days after the Charlottesville terrorist attack, he quickly began rebelling against his own speech. Last night he retweeted a sixteen year old kid, then he retweeted a racist sentiment from the “Pizzagate” guy, and then he seemed to hint at reigniting the birther conspiracy about President Obama by tweeting “the U.S. is really my home!” But it turns out that was just a warm up act.
Thus far today, Trump’s Twitter page has looked like something from the lowest rungs of internet hell, and he (or more likely his handlers) have already gone back and deleted portions of what he’s spewed. At one point Trump retweeted a supporter who had posted a cartoon of a “Trump train” running over a CNN reporter, which was eerily reminiscent of the white supremacist Trump supporter who rammed his car into a crowd of people in Charlottesville and killed one of them:
Trump ended up deleting that retweet, but it wasn’t his only berserk moment of the day. At another point Trump retweeted a user named @MikeHolden42 who had just tweeted “He’s a fascist, so not unusual.” Upon belatedly realizing that he was retweeting someone who was calling him a fascist, Trump ended up deleting that one as well.
Elsewhere on Twitter today, Donald Trump retweeted a story which asserted that he’s considering pardoning white supremacist former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and it’s still not clear whether or not Trump intended to retweet it. Trump also opted to continue attacking the growing number of prominent American CEOs who are resigning from his advisory council in protest of his racism: “For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!” (link).
